AutoSMS: greetings sent for you

AutoSMS greets your customers for you: on their birthday, on Tanzania's holidays and on the 1st of every month. You set it up once. Every morning around 08:30 it sends what is due, under your sender name, and each message costs the usual credits from your balance.

Before you start

• Your KYC is approved and you have topped up at least once.
• You have credits in your balance (see Buy credits). AutoSMS never sends half a list: if the balance cannot cover a day's messages, nothing goes out and you are told in the app.
• Your customers are saved under Contacts. Birthdays need the date_of_birth column (for example 1990-04-27) in your import file.

Switch it on

1. 1
   Open AutoSMS in the menu.
2. 2
   Under What to send, tick the occasions: Birthdays, New month, National holidays and, if you want them, Religious holidays (Eid, Ramadan, Maulid, Easter, Christmas; off unless you tick them). Open Choose holidays one by one to leave a single holiday out.
3. 3
   Under The words, pick Swahili or English and your sender name. The birthday and new-month messages are ready-made; reword them if you like. {name} becomes the customer's name and {business} your business name.
4. 4
   Press Save changes, then turn on the switch at the top so it reads AutoSMS is on.

Check what it will send

• The next 30 days lists every message that will go out: the date, the occasion, how many people and how many credits, with a sample text.
• Below it you see what a full year costs and how many months your balance covers. Top up before it runs out.
• What AutoSMS has sent shows each day's result. Every message also appears under Messages, marked AutoSMS.

If something goes wrong