SMS Settings

You can configure AD360 to use your own GSM modem or your custom SMS gateway.

Configuring GSM Modem

Steps involved in configuring the modem port & modem speed:

Requirements for Establishing SMS Server Connection:

Modem/mobile must have GSM functionality with a provision to insert the SIM card.
Should support 7-bit (GSM default alphabet), 8-bit and Unicode (UCS2) encoding.
Make sure the GSM modem configured with AD360 is not used by any other application.
If you experience any issue in sending SMS notifications through GSM modem, please restart AD360 and try again.
Matching these criteria allows AD360 to support your modem/ mobile phone.

You can configure you own custom SMS gateway provided that the gateway is HTTP or SMTP based. Please follow the steps given below:

Note:

Separate the HTTP parameters by an ampersand (&) sign.
Example format: userName=xxx&password=yyy&mobileNumber=%mobNo&message=%message%.
You can use the following parameters:
- userName = the parameter which is used to denote the API authentication username.
- xxx = API authentication username.
- password = the parameter which is used to denote the API authentication password.
- yyy = API authentication password.
- mobileNumber = recipient parameter.
- %mobNo% = this macro denotes the user's mobile number.
- message = message parameter.
- %message% = this macro denotes the SMS message content.
- More HTTP Parameters - If you SMS provider requires more parameters like unicode and apiID, include them as well using the '&' sign.
Specify the response you get from your provider to determine whether the SMS has been sent successfully.
Click Advanced Settings. Enter the HTTP Request Headers specific to your SMS provider.
Select the option Convert Message into Unicode to send SMS in Unicode format.
Click Save.

Navigate to Admin > General Settings > Server Settings.
Click SMS Settings tab.
Select Custom from the SMS Provider drop down box.
Select SMTP from the Send SMS via drop down box.
In the From Address field enter an email address from which you want to send the SMS. Eg: noreply@adselfserviceplus.com
In the To Address field enter the %mobNo% macro followed by the email of your provider. For example: %mobNo%@clickatell.com. Refer your SMS provider to know the exact values.
Enter the details required in the Subject field. Generally, it would be either mobile number or message depending upon your SMS provider.
Enter the details required in the Content field. This also depends on your SMS provider. Please refer them to know the exact values.
Click SMTP Server Settings.
Enter the name or IP address of the “SMTP Server” and its Port numberstrong>.
Enter the usernamestrong> and passwordstrong> of the SMTP server.
Click Save.

Note: If you don't configure the SMTP server settings, then the mail server configured under the Mail Settings tab will be used.