Bulk SMS in New CaledoniaWrite it once. Your whole list gets the message.
A water cut, a school trip, a private sale: everyone gets their own SMS, under your organisation's name. And you know who received it.
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New Caledonia's bulk SMS pioneers since 2016. An adviser from Nouméa walks you through a send on your own list.
140 characters · 1 SMS
Everyone by name
First name, class, appointment date: every contact reads a message that speaks to them.
Mistakes stay behind
Duplicates, unreadable numbers, landlines and opted-out contacts are set aside, each with its reason.
Right on time
Right now, tomorrow at 7 am, or spread over the week within your hours.
You know who got it
Delivered, not delivered, not confirmed: the status of every recipient, no guesswork.
One message.
Everyone reads their own.
Write with fields such as {prenom} for the first name, {classe} or any other column of your group. SMS PRO fills in the message for each contact, and the counter counts the filled-in version, long first names included.
Before anything goes out, the preview shows you the exact SMS a real contact on your list will receive.
127 characters · 1 SMS
138 characters · 1 SMS
Your list gets checked. Mistakes stay behind.
Every row is read before sending. Good numbers go out with their first name; duplicates, unreadable numbers, landlines and contacts who opted out of your organisation stay behind, each with its reason.
A parent of three gets one SMS per child if the texts differ, and just one if they are the same.
- JaneYear 5 A
56 00 01Goes · 56 00 01 - NoaYear 5 A
+687 56.00.02Goes · 56 00 02 - JaneYear 5 A
56 00 01Duplicate, same text - Alexandra-MarieYear 2 B
00687 560003Goes · 56 00 03 - TomYear 2 B
56 00Unreadable, too short - TevaYear 5 B
560004Goes · 56 00 04 - LouYear 5 B
56 00 05Opted out (STOP) - SamYear 2 B
56.00.06Goes · 56 00 06
Preview of the SMS for Sam
Illustration, fictitious data.
One send. The whole street in the loop.
The dad on the footpath, the grandmother on her veranda, the teenager on his bike: each one reads the SMS meant for them, under your organisation's name. Nobody sees anyone else's number.
Your Excel file,
just as it is.
Copy and paste your columns: they become fields in your message. One list per class, department or neighbourhood, and the same contact can sit in several groups.
56 00 01, +687 56 00 01 and 00687 56 00 01 are all understood; an ambiguous format is refused, with the reason. Test your list with the +687 number formatter, or see how to send from Excel
Prepared tonight.
Sent tomorrow at 7 am.
You can schedule the send, or spread it over a period, within a time window and on the days you choose. Pause, resume, cancel: an SMS that hasn't left stays put.
A sensitive message can wait for a manager's approval once it goes beyond a number of recipients you set. Approval before sending
The next morning, you know who to call.
For SMS sent to a New Caledonian mobile, the mobile network returns a delivery receipt. SMS PRO matches it to the message and records when it was received.
Resend to the genuine failures only, without texting again those who already have it. Tracking every SMS
One character too many, multiplied by your whole list.
A curly apostrophe or an accented letter can split a message into two SMS. SMS PRO simplifies these characters, refuses emojis and tells you how many to remove. Edit the template here: the counter applies the same rules.
138 characters at the longest · 1 SMS · 22 left before SMS no. 2
Ten years keeping New Caledonia informed, under your name.
Your SMS show your organisation's name, registered for you and then checked with a real send. They go out directly on the New Caledonian mobile network, and your contacts are stored in New Caledonia, in the 
Stratos sovereign cloud.
Running a promotion? It starts with your name and carries an opt-out link. See our SMS campaigns and what the regulations say.
One list, one voice.
A class, a town, a team, a customer base: everywhere, someone writes once so that everyone knows.
The class keeps families in the loop
The council reaches out to the Islands
The club calls off training
The store invites its regulars backOnly a handful of numbers? Send an SMS from your computer. Need sends to follow your own software? The SMS API takes care of it.
Your questions about bulk SMS.
How does each contact get their own version?
Through fields placed in the template. You write one template with fields such as {prenom} (first name), {nom} (last name) or any column of your group, and each contact gets their own version. The counter counts the filled-in message, and the preview shows the SMS of a real contact.
What happens if a number appears twice?
It gets a single SMS if the text is the same. If the texts differ, say for a parent of two children, it gets one SMS per text. Duplicates are counted and shown before anything is sent.
Can recipients see the other numbers?
No. Every SMS is individual: the recipient sees your organisation's name and their own message, never the list of other recipients.
Can I cancel a send that is under way?
Yes. From the sends in progress screen, you can pause a send, resume it or cancel it. SMS that haven't left yet stay put. An SMS that has already gone, however, cannot be called back.
Can my contacts reply to the SMS?
Not to the sender ID: nobody can reply to a name. If you are expecting a call or an answer, put a phone number or a link in the message, as in our examples.
Can I send to numbers outside New Caledonia?
Yes. Messages to New Caledonian mobiles go out directly on the local network. French Polynesia, Vanuatu, Australia, New Zealand and mainland France are reached through international routing. Another destination? Ask us, we may already send there.
Related pages
Send from an Excel file
Copy and paste or CSV: your columns become fields in the message.
Scheduled and spread-out SMS
Choose when the send leaves, or spread a campaign over several days.
SMS templates
Ready-to-fill messages, written for the standard SMS alphabet.
Your list is waiting for its message.
A class to inform, a town to alert, customers to bring back: tell us who you are writing to. An adviser in Nouméa calls you back and shows you the exact SMS that will go out.
50 free SMS to try, no commitment: contact@smspro.nc