SMS Campaign

An SMS campaign is a text message delivered to a large number of recipients, usually for marketing or informative purposes and enables companies to interact with customers. SMS campaigns are a crucially powerful approach for delivering essential information to individuals.

With Tegsoft SMS Campaign Manager, an individual campaign may be created and delivered instantly, or a campaign can be planned and scheduled to send at a later time.

Please follow the steps below to build an SMS campaign in Tegsoft.

1. Define SMS Service Provider

Before starting, make sure you have defined an SMS provider to be able to run the campaign.

2. Create SMS Campaign

To create an SMS campaign with Tegsoft SMS Campaign Manager, please follow steps below.

2.1. How to Access SMS Campaign Manager in Tegsoft?

Click on the Management → SMS Campaign Manager tab to access the SMS campaign page.

2.2. How to Filter Search Results?

Campaigns that have been edited recently or that have taken action in the near future are displayed on the Campaign Manager screen. If old campaigns are not displayed on this screen, the filtering options are used.

Previously created SMS campaigns are filtered according to the following filtering options. In order to activate the campaign, the active check box next to the name of the campaign needs to be ticked.

Filter: Filters campaign records by name.
Order Type: There are 4 different sorting options: Name, Start Date, End Date, Last Process Date.
Is Active: Filters campaign records by status. Statuses are All, Recently Used, Active, Inactive
Group: Filters campaign records by groups.

2.3. How to Create a New SMS Campaign?

Click on the Add (+) button to create a new SMS campaign. Save the campaign after configuring all settings.

2.4. Which Settings are in the "Campaign Details" Section?

The following screenshot and table include the setting options (parameters) and their descriptions in the Campaign Details section.

2.5. Groups Assignment

In this section, the groups to be assigned to the relevant SMS campaign are determined. If the groups need to be selected and assigned to the campaign one by one, the  >  icon is clicked. If all groups are to be assigned to the campaign at once, the  >>  icon is clicked.

2.6. Adding Contacts to SMS Campaign

After creating an SMS campaign, contacts need to be added to it. If the campaign is selected as active, adding contacts starts the sending campaign SMS.

There are three ways to add contacts to SMS campaigns in Tegsoft:

2.6.1. Import from Excel File

To add a contact to a campaign by an Excel File, click the “Import From Excel File” button. Then select the phone number and contact ID uniqueness parameters.

Phone Number Uniqueness:

1. Do not check phone number uniqueness (Improves import performance)
2. Warn repeated phone numbers
3. Do not import repeated phone numbers

Contact ID (contid) Uniqueness:

1. Do not import repeated contacts
2. Warn repeated contacts

Then click the "Contacts from Excel" button in the pop-up window and select an excel file from your computer that contains the contact information.

The mandatory parameters in the Excel file are shown in the screenshot below. Apart from the parameters in this screenshot, different parameters can be added to the Excel file. If added, they is going to appear in the contact information section and on the agent screen during the campaign call.

2.6.2. Contact from CRM

To add a contact to a campaign from CRM, click the “Contacts from CRM” button. Filter and select the contact, then click Add (+) button.

2.6.3. Contact from Other Campaign

To add a contact to a campaign from other campaign, click the “Contacts from Other Campaign” button. Filter the campaign, select the contact, and then click the Add (+) button.

2.7. Deleting Contacts from SMS Campaign

There are different options for deleting contacts from the campaign. These are;

1. Remove selected contact from the campaign.
2. Remove all selected contacts listed in the campaign.
3. Deleting contact cards of the selected contacts in the campaign
4. Remove all contacts listed in the campaign from the campaign.
5. Delete all contact cards listed in the campaign.

2.8. Uploaded Files

If contacts are added to the campaign with Excel files, these files are located under the “Uploaded Files” tab and can be downloaded.

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