Hey, thanks everyone for the great advice. Very, very much appreciated. We're probably going to give Moonshado a run, simply because it's integrated with Heroku, but SMSGlobal in particular is also being considered because of their incredible support and willingness to find the right price.
Cheers again, - alex. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 18:26, Nathan de Vries <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I highly recommend using a gem like ActiveSMS, which provides an > ActionMailer-esque interface for sending SMS using different providers. The > gem has adapters for Clickatell, BulkSMS, Human Mobile & Simplewire, but > writing a new adapter is a walk in the park: > > http://github.com/nofxx/activesms > > Myles Eftos has written an adapter for the Australian SMSGlobal gateway, > which might be of use in your case: > > http://github.com/madpilot/activesms_global_sms > > I'd also use something like DJ / delayed_job to batch the sending over > time, especially if you're intending on sending out 500-5000 at a time: > > http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job > > Hope that helps! > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > On 10/08/2010, at 3:35 PM, Alex Cooper wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > can anyone recommend a good Australian bulk SMS provider, for easy > integration with a Rails app? I want to be able to send messages with a > minimum of fuss directly from our app, in volumes ranging roughly between > 500--5,000 at a time. All our members are in Australia. > > > > So far, I like the look of ESENDEX and SMSGlobal. Does anyone have a good > experience with an Aussie provider? > > > > Essentially, I'm looking for: > > • good price > > • ease of integration (a RESTful API would be ideal) > > • reliable, stable service > > • support for the requisite "opt out" > > • potentially, the support for short codes (capturing payments via > SMS) > > • helpful, responsive support > > > > Any success stories (or war stories!) would be much appreciated. > > > > Cheers, > > > > - alex. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
