SMS for retail in New CaledoniaYour shop's name, on every customer's phone.
Order in, private sale, birthday, deposit to pay: a text in your name at just the right moment, and you can see how many customers clicked.
Updated on · SMS PRO team
New Caledonia's bulk SMS pioneers since 2016. An adviser in Nouméa will call you back.
116 characters · 1 SMS
Your brand as the sender
Customers know who is texting before they read on. We register and check the name for you.
Clicks, counted
How many customers clicked, on what day, at what time. Link-preview bots are left out.
Payment inside the SMS
A personal link for each customer, and the money goes into your own business account.
The right word, on the right day
A birthday, an annual eye test: the date is in your file, and the SMS goes out on the day.
On this receipt, every line reads “Delivered”.
No prices, no discounts: just the moments your shop thought of its customers. An order in, a deposit, a new collection, a birthday, and proof that each message got through.
Every line, under your name.
SMS PRO · Nouméa · since 2016
Monday · Order in
100 characters · 1 SMS
The box is opened at 8:40. Five minutes later, Jane knows.
Illustration, fictitious data. Tap a line on the receipt to see its SMS.
The box just arrived.
Jane already knows.
Your sales assistant types the number, picks the shop's template, and the text goes out under your brand name. Once the network confirms, the screen shows it as delivered: no need to call and check.
100 characters · 1 SMS
Two messages in the running.
The winner goes to everyone else.
Two versions go out to part of your list; the one that gets more clicks goes to the rest. Sending is spread across the time window you choose, so the shop isn't swamped all at once.
She walks in. She knew it was ready.
The text did the work before she arrived: her order is waiting, the deposit is paid, the opening hours were in the message. At the counter, all that is left is the pleasure of handing it over. Since 2016, that is what we have been sending for New Caledonian shops.
The deposit is paid
before they reach the counter.
Special order, alteration, tomorrow's catering platter: each customer gets their own payment link, with their amount read from your file. They pay from their phone, and the money goes into your own business account.
107 characters · 1 SMS
A kind word on their birthday.
Without anyone having to remember.
A QR code poster by the till: customers sign up themselves and confirm by SMS. Their birthday becomes a column in your file, and the message goes out on its own on the day.
140 characters · 1 SMS
The glasses are ready.
So is the customer.
A text lets the customer know, opening hours included, without anyone phoning between two sales. When the annual eye test comes round, the reminder goes out by itself. SMS PRO already has a connector for MagOptique, and your software can be connected too: we look at every integration request.
119 characters · 1 SMS
104 characters · 1 SMS
Every shop sends.
Head office stays in control.
One account per shop, three roles: administrator, supervisor and user. The administrator assigns the sender IDs, and head office can review a campaign before it goes out: approve, edit or reject.
Nothing changes in store. Except better-informed customers.
Nothing to install
SMS PRO opens in the browser on the shop computer. Your customers simply receive an ordinary text.
Your file, as it is
Paste it from Excel: duplicates counted, numbers put into +687 format. See sending from Excel.
A team in Nouméa
Ten years of sending for New Caledonian organisations, and an adviser you can call: (+687) 23.04.04.
A promotion that is welcome, and by the rules.
A promotion is not an order update. Four habits are all it takes, and the counter alongside tells you whether your message fits in 1 SMS.
- Start with your shop's name, and add your organisation's opt-out link.
- Text customers who have given their consent: for an individual, it is the safest practice.
- Give a number or a link: nobody can reply to a sender ID.
- Keep it to 1 SMS: the counter tells you how many characters to cut.
149 characters at the longest · 1 SMS · 11 left before SMS no. 2
SMS for retail, in short
Questions from retailers.
How do we get our customers' consent in store?
With a QR code poster near the till: customers scan it, sign up themselves and confirm by SMS. An unticked box on your order form works too. For a promotion sent to an individual, getting their consent first is the safest practice.
How can I tell whether a text brought customers into the shop?
By counting clicks, then at the counter. The short link tells you how many customers clicked, on what day and at what time. In store, a line such as "just show this SMS" gives you a simple marker.
Can we tell a customer their order is ready straight from the till?
Yes. From the till computer, a single send is all it takes: a number, a template, and the SMS goes out under your shop's name. If your point-of-sale software can call an SMS API, it can also send the SMS itself, the moment the order status changes.
Can customers pay for an order by SMS?
Yes. The SMS carries a personal payment link to a secure online payment page, with each customer's amount read from a column in your file. The money goes into your own business account.
Can each shop have its own account?
Yes. An organisation can have one account per shop, with three roles: administrator, supervisor and user. The administrator assigns sender IDs across the accounts, and head office can approve campaigns before they go out.
Order ready, new collection, private sale: our SMS templates for shops are ready to reuse, with your shop's name and the opt-out link already in place.
Related pages
SMS marketing
Campaigns tested in two versions, spread across the day, measured click by click.
Payments by SMS
A personal payment link for each customer, and the money in your own business account.
Bulk SMS
Your whole customer list in one send, with every message filled in for each person.
Your shop window fits in a text.
The box that arrives, the collection they were waiting for, the little note on their birthday. Since 2016, we have been sending SMS for New Caledonian organisations: tell us about your shop, and an adviser in Nouméa will call you back and show you the SMS on your own customer list.
50 free SMS to try, no commitment: contact@smspro.nc