A new edition (Quick SMS V2). There is the possibility of instant messaging or simply by typing numbers or by pasting the numbers that I have chosen from another program.

Important: select the separator character between numbers eg enter, tab, space, etc.
 

Apifon in collaboration with easyTech has created an sms plug in, used by  Virtuemart 2 (joomla v2.5 and above) in order to automate the confirmation of a purchase via SMS and not only e-mail.

SMS is a new intelligent way to confirm and notify the order that has taken place, providing direct information and reliability for your applications! 

All you have to do to take advantage of the plugin easyVMsms is, to install the extension, create an account at www.apifon.com and topup credits.

You will find the plugin as also the instructions configuring the easyVMsms plugin at: easytech.gr

All statistics are for the United States:

• 95 - 98% of text messages are read within minutes of receipt.
• 86% of consumers send or receive a text message every week.
• 30% of consumers interact with a brand via text message.
• 2.12 Trillion text messages are sent every year! (Summer 2011)
• Only 40% of constumers own smartphones (Fall 2011).
• 64% of 25 -35 years olds own a smartphone
• Text messaging is still the largest mobile marketing channel by revenue (2011).

Now Apifon gives you the opportunity to get informed about your balance account, simply by following up the steps bellow.

1. Login to http://extranet.apifon.com
2. From the main menu My Account choose Notifications and then Balance for the submenu

4. A pop up window will appear to fill the fields:

• Balance Limit : declare the limit of the amount you wish to get notifications
• Send every : declare the frequency that you will receive the notifications
• Client : choose the client you want to send the notifications. For the web2sms users declare their own account
• Send method : choose the type of the notification ( email or sms)
• Method info : write the mobile phone or email where the notification will be send.

What’s a callback URL?

A "callback URL" is the web address an API needs to send information for use in a different web site.
For example, a web developer is building a web application, and wants to send notification SMS messages. In order to send through our gateway, he needs to use our SMS API. Then he has to 'ask' over and over our gateway to get the delivery report, until he gets back a final status.

In addition this tracking method, using the callback method, all the required information that the developer needs (e.g. the status of the SMS) can automatically been sent back to the URL he has requested so.

This is an example of a script that a developer may need, to store the information sent back (by the callback method), to a MySQL database.

?php
 	
    $dbhost = 'localhost';		//Host Domain/IP 
    $dbuser = 'root';			//Username
    $dbpass = 'password';		//password
    $dbname = 'callback';		//Database name
    $tblname = 'delivery_reports';	//Table to insert or update delivery reports

    $conn = @mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
    @mysql_select_db($dbname);

    if($conn === false){
        die('Unable to connect');
    } 
    
    @mysql_query('UPDATE ' . $tblname . '  
                   SET StatusId="'.$_REQUEST['statusId'].'",
			Description="'.$_REQUEST['description'].'", 
			Parameters="'.$_REQUEST['parameters'].'",
			DateTime='.date('Y-m-d H:i:s').'
		   WHERE RecipientId ="'.$_REQUEST['recipientId'].'"
		   AND Recipient="'.$_REQUEST['recipient'].'" ', $conn);
    
    if(@mysql_affected_rows($conn)<1) {
        @mysql_query('INSERT INTO ' . $tblname . ' 
			VALUES( "'.$_REQUEST['recipientId'].'",
				"'.$_REQUEST['messageId'].'",
				"'.$_REQUEST['recipient'].'",
				"'.$_REQUEST['statusId'].'",
				"'.$_REQUEST['description'].'", 
				"'.$_REQUEST['parameters'].'", 
				'.date('Y-m-d H:i:s').' )', $conn );
    }
    
    @mysql_close($conn);
    
?>
		

To set up your "Callback URL" you 'll have to log in at extranet.apifon.com and find the field "Callback URL" from the menu My Account in the Preferences tab.

We are announcing an additional feature to our extranet:

You can access traffic statistics per delivery status (delivered, undelivered, pending), or total amount sent shorted by day, week, month, year...
In your Apifon's extranet dashboard find gadget tool "Quick Analytics"

From there, you can see Sent Traffic for the period you would like and download the report! 

Use the Quick period option, to track the total SMS sent for a custom Period.

If you are not a developer and want to test Apifon, then this guide is for you. 
Follow these steps to send your first SMS.

    1. Sign Up to Apifon and retrieve your API Key.
    2. Copy and paste this URL into your browser where as:

apikey = your API key
from = your sender id e.g. myCompany
to = the destination number at international format (i.e. for UK: 44 1234567890)
text = your message

In order to send a message you have to call the following syntax:
http://smsc.apifon.com/send/?apikey=MY_API_KEY&from=Apifon&to=441234567890&text=Hello!

Enjoy,
Apifon Team

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