Scheduled SMS and staggered sending in New CaledoniaWrite it now. It goes out when you say.
A note to parents for 6:30 tomorrow morning, a campaign spread across the week within your business hours: SMS PRO remembers, so you can get on with your day.
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New Caledonia's bulk SMS pioneers since 2016. An adviser in Nouméa will walk you through scheduling, using your own case.
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On Nouméa time
A date and a send time, in UTC+11 all year round.
Spread across your hours
A period, a time window, chosen days, dates to skip.
In control until it goes
Pause, resume or cancel from Sends in progress.
STOP always honoured
Even in a send already scheduled or halfway through a campaign.
Ready by 4 pm on Friday.
The weekend can start.
When you send, choose: now, later, or staggered. Single texts, group sends, PDF letters by link: all of them can be scheduled.
The calendar then shows every planned send, day by day. Nothing to remember, nothing to keep an eye on.
Monday, 6:30 am. The message is already on the breakfast table.
Nobody worked over the weekend. The text went out right on schedule, under the school's name, and the family knows what the day holds before they walk out the door.
A campaign that takes its time. And respects yours.
Set a period, a time window, the sending days and any dates to skip. SMS PRO spreads your texts across those slots, so calls come in steadily through the week, at hours when your team can pick up.
Watch the week play out, skip an upcoming day, pause, cancel: exactly what you will do from your Sends in progress screen.
Running a promotion? Test two messages on part of your list, and the better one goes to everyone else. See our SMS campaigns.
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Monday to Friday · 8 am to 5 pm · except 24 September
You stay in control until the very last text.
Sends in progress shows what has gone, what has been delivered and what is waiting for its time window. Pause, resume, cancel: texts that have not gone out will not go out.
A send can also wait for a manager's go-ahead. Approval before sending
Opted out yesterday?
Nothing reaches them tomorrow.
Anyone who opts out through your organisation's opt-out link is removed from sends already scheduled, and from the texts still to go in a staggered campaign. Across every account in your organisation.
Typed 2 am instead of 2 pm?
A send scheduled overnight can trigger an email alert to your organisation's administrator. It is not blocked: the call is yours.
A birthday, a due date.
It goes out on its own.
A date stored in your contacts triggers the text for each person concerned, on the day. A text containing a word you choose can trigger a follow-up, such as a survey the day after an appointment.
Reminders that go out by themselves from your calendar follow your Google Calendar, Outlook or Microsoft 365 appointments. And a school simply ticks its teacher training days: the text goes to parents the day before.
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Prepared the day before. Read at the right moment.
Since 2016, organisations across New Caledonia have scheduled their messages to land exactly when people need them.
Nouméa time, all year round.
Send times are set in Nouméa time, with no daylight saving. Writing from Brisbane? 9 am there is 10 am here. From Sydney, it is the same time in summer and one hour later here in winter.
More on picking the right moment: sending SMS in New Caledonia.
Scheduled SMS: your questions.
Can I schedule a text for an exact time?
Yes. You choose the date and time it goes out, in Nouméa time, for a single text, a group send or a letter sent by link.
Can I change a scheduled send?
Until it has gone out, you can pause or cancel it from the Sends in progress screen. To change the wording, cancel it and schedule the corrected version.
What happens to a cancelled send?
Texts that have not gone out will not go out. Those already sent keep their delivery tracking, recipient by recipient.
Is a STOP received in the meantime honoured?
Yes. A number that opts out through your organisation's opt-out link is removed from a send that is already scheduled, and from the texts still waiting to go out in a staggered campaign.
Which time zone is the send time in?
Nouméa time, UTC+11, all year round: New Caledonia has no daylight saving. Port Vila is on the same time. Sydney and Melbourne match Nouméa in summer and are one hour behind in winter; Brisbane is one hour behind all year; Auckland is one hour ahead in winter and two in summer.
Can I avoid sending at night?
A send scheduled overnight is not blocked, but it can trigger an email alert to your organisation's administrator. For a campaign, the time window of a staggered send keeps your texts within the hours you set.
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Pick the time. The text remembers.
A new school term, a week-long campaign, a message timed for opening hour: since 2016, we have helped organisations across New Caledonia send at the right moment. An adviser in Nouméa will call you back and show you how to schedule it.
50 free SMS to try, no commitment: contact@smspro.nc