The SMS Blog

It bothers me when sending someone an SMS when I’m expecting a reply when I don’t get one.

My natural predispostion is to imagine something has gone wrong with the SMS being delivered rather than just imagining that my message wasn’t the most important thing to someone at that particular moment in time. This problem is doubly excerbated when using the Web to send an SMS because it adds to your irrational thinkings, ‘Maybe the Website didn’t send it’. We know you think this from the number of people we see sending SMS to themselves the first time they try it from Treasuremytext - there’s something about a Website sending SMS that people don’t quite believe is true.

With this in mind the new TMT introduced support for SMS delivery reciepts, something that wasn’t there in the old site. This was broken after launch but as of yesterday was back again and it’s pretty cool.

Built into SMS technology is a notification system which immediatly tells the phone or gateway of the sender the status of the SMS sent which is updated again when an SMS has been delivered or it’s given up trying. It’s probably even supported on your phone, buried deep in a menu somewhere. The ability to check the delivery status of a message, I think the venerable Nokia 3310 was able to do this. Treasuremytext also does this, it’s not quite buried deep in a menu but it may be just as unnoticed unless you look for it.

So if you want to be sure someone is getting your SMS you can feel a bit more reassured if you send it from Treasuremytext. Aswell as delivery status notifications it’s also much easier to type on a keyboard, did we mention it comes from your own number so people can reply straight back, and it’s just 0.05 euro cents anywhere in the world, payable by PayPal, what a bargain, you really should check it out!

So if you’re using our outbound sms check out your Sent folder and take a look at the delivery status of any of your sent messages. In there each message is displayed with either a green, yellow or red light. Green = Your SMS has been delivered, Yellow = It’s enroute and it’s delayed either because of the network or more normally because the persons phone is off and finally Red = It can’t be delivered (normally because the number isn’t the full international number).

If you catch it quick enough between going from Yellow to Green after sending it you might even see it change in front of your eyes and it making a cute little sound to tell you it’s been delivered.