SMS Campaigns

Setup Message Gateway Before creating SMS Campaigns

Step 1: Navigate to Admin>>System>>External Services

Step 2: Next Click on External Services(SMS Service Configuration)

Step 3: Click on

Step 4: Set the following parameters in Edit External Service Configuration

Edit External Service Configuration

end_point: /message-gateway-0.0.1

host_name: { Message-gateway host name}

Port_Number: 9191

tenant_app_key: {Set the same tenant_app_key that is generated while configuring Message-Gateway}

Step 5: Click Submit.

1.Once you login into Finflux, navigate to Admin>>Organisation>>SMS Campaigns

2. Click on to create a new SMS Campaign

3. Define the "Message Details" for the SMS Campaign.

Campaign Name: Provide a name for SMS Campaign

Campaign Type: Should be "SMS"

SMS Provider: Select the appropriate SMS provider from the drop down

Trigger Type: Set "Trigger type" as 'Direct','Scheduled','Triggered'

Business Rule: Select the appropriate business rule from the drop down.

Under Trigger Type, the drop down populates 'Direct','Scheduled','Triggered'

Choose Direct when you want to send SMS only once.
Choose Scheduled if you want to send multiple SMS for particular 'date' and 'Time'.
Choose Triggered when you want to send 'transactional' SMS.(For Example: Loan Repayment, Savings Deposit, Savings Withdrawal, etc. Currently 9 types of transactional campaigns are supported).

When Trigger Type is set as "Scheduled", provide the Scheduled date and Schedule time.

4. Next click

5. Provide the Campaign Message by using Template Parameters

6. Click

7. Next click on Activate and provide the Activation date

8. SMS Campaign is successfully created.

9. From SMS campaign window you can see the SMS campaign names that are active and pending stages.

To view Pending SMS, set "From Date" and "To Date" parameters.
Run Scheduler Job

To send pending SMS, please run the scheduler job "Send Messages to SMS Gateway". This can be achieved by navigating to Admin>>System>>Scheduler Jobs.
Similarly we can view 'Sent','Delivered','Failed' SMS by providing "From Date" and "To Date" parameters.