Latest News

• Dr Pieter Streicher, MD of BulkSMS.com, is attending the Global Messaging 2008 conference in Cannes, France (8-9 May 2008). If you wish to schedule an appointment with Dr Streicher at the event, please contact us on info@bulksms.com-- Wednesday, May 7, 2008
• Mobile industry is going green-- 13 February 2008
  Top wireless industry trends focused on by industry leaders at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain are faster mobile broadband speeds and the need for compnaies to commit to the environmental sustainability of the mobile industry. Click here for full article
• Richard Simpson, director at BulkSMS.com, is attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (11-14 February 2008). If you wish to set up a meeting at the event, please contact us on info@bulksms.com.- Wednesday, January 16, 2008
• Version 4.3 of the BulkSMS Text Messenger software has been released.- Tuesday, January 15, 2008
  Download here.
• Key features of the new release of the BulkSMS Text Messenger (Version 4.1)- Thursday, 20 December 2007
  Automatic integration of Microsoft Outlook contacts, find and manage feature, multi-group view, drag/ drop from Contacts to Groups, and Groups to Contacts, ability to split large groups into smaller groups, group management screen, sender ID's, long messages of over 160 characters (concatenation), export message. Click here to download new updated software.
• Google invited BulkSMS.com to present a case study at the "Get to know Google" event.- Thursday, November 20, 2007
• Delivery to Networks- Thursday, October 25, 2007
  We do not cover delivery to the following networks: Sprint, Nextel, and T-mobile. These networks do not allow different companies to send from a shared shortcode, while usa.bulksms.com is a shared shortcode service. For more info, contact us here.
• Global Messaging 2007- 11th June 2007
  SMS messaging revenues have continued to grow year-on-year and are providing mobile network operators with their most significant messaging revenue earnings. The result is that analysts have had to admit that their predictions on the demise of SMS have been premature. Click here for the full media release
• 3GSM in Barcelona - Jan 30th, 2007
  Bulksms.com will be attending the forthcoming 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain from the 12th to 15th February 2007. Interested parties who wish to set up a meeting with a Bulksms.com representative at the conference should Contact us. See the 3GSM Conference website for more information.
• Happy New Year! Tuesday, Jan 2, 2007
  BulkSMS wishes all visitors of our site a wonderful New Year! Your BulkSMS Team
• Bulksms at CeBIT - March 7th, 2006
  Visit us from from 9-15 March at stand F56/2 in Hall 4. To book a meeting with one of our staff at CeBIT email us with your details and indicate your preferred date & time of meeting.
• New website design - August 15th, 2005
  Thanks to Lori at Zenfulcreations and our own team the website looks nicer, there is more information available and it is structured better. Comments are welcome.
• Account security - June 27th, 2005
  We have amended our terms & conditions to improve account security. The "company name" is not editable anymore, and requires a written submission to be changed. Please take note of our amended terms & conditions. Users are advised to ensure that their company details and all contact details on their BulkSMS account/s are correct. The "company" is the legal entity that contracts with BulkSMS.
• Sponsor credit usage - May 17th, 2005
  It is now possible to sponsor credit usage on other Bulksms accounts from your Bulksms account. An example of where this is useful is if you have a business in which you have several people who have Bulksms accounts, but you want to manage the purchasing and usage of credits from one central Bulksms account. This feature is called the Sponsor-Consumer feature as the central account sponsors the consumption of credits on sub-accounts. Read more...
• Cost of Delivery to the USA and Canada drops by a third. - Feb 20th, 2005
  As a result of new agreements signed with US networks, the cost of sending SMS messages to the USA has dropped by 1/3 and now costs 1.0 credits.
• Default Routing Group Change - Jan 28th, 2005
  As the bulk of our clients use the Standard (2) routing group the default routing group will be set to Standard (2), and no longer to Economy (1). We do recommend the Standard (2) (default) routing group as we believe it has is the best balance of reliability, functionality, and cost. For more information on routes, please see the Pricing page.
• Scheduled Messages - Nov 25th, 2004
  Have you ever needed to send an SMS to an individual or group from your Bulksms account at a particular time, but knew that you would not have access to a PC or the Internet at that time? Your only option was to send the SMS out earlier or later than you had wanted to. No longer! With scheduled messaging you can set messages to go out from minutes into the future to days, to weeks and even years into the future. Goto 'Update Your Profile' to enable this feature.
• Low Credit Notification - Aug 6th, 2004
  Avoid running out of credits! Set your Low Credit Level on your user profile and receive email alerts when your credits drop below this level. This feature is particularly useful for clients who use the http, ftp, and email to SMS interfaces. For more information, log into your account and click on 'Update Your Profile'.
• SMS Merge - Jul 20th, 2004
  Personalize your message when sending SMS's to groups. While composing an SMS message to send to a group, all you have to do is click a button for First Name and/or Surname and when you send your message the Bulksms system will automatically place the required information from your Online Phonebook into the message. It is that easy, and it will give your messages more credibility. Try it out on the 'Send Messages to a Group' page.
 

Archived Developments

Here are older feature additions:

• Manage Invoices - Feb 10th, 2004
• Receive replies to your outgoing SMS messages - Jan 26th, 2004
• Failed Number Purge - Dec 3rd, 2003
• Saturday Support hours extended - Jun 10th, 2003