To send an SMS campaign with Sarbacane Campaigns, you need five things: a license, enough SMS credits, mobile phone numbers, your recipients’ consent to SMS marketing, and a message with no blocking characters.
Prerequisites
A Sarbacane Campaigns license.
Sufficient SMS credits. Without credits, you can create a campaign but not send it. An SMS costs 1 to 3 credits per recipient, depending on its length.
→ How can you check your credit balance in Sarbacane?
→ How many credits does an SMS use in Sarbacane?
→ How can you buy additional email or SMS credits in Sarbacane?
Mobile phone numbers. Landline numbers cannot receive SMS messages. To write to recipients abroad, each number must include its country code (+33, +34, +32…).
→ How can you import contacts into a Sarbacane SMS campaign?
Your recipients' consent, for a marketing SMS. They must have explicitly agreed to receive this type of message.
→ What rules must you follow when sending marketing SMS messages?
A message without blocking characters. Emojis, certain accented characters (ê, ï, œ) and curly apostrophes prevent sending until they are replaced.