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Bulk SMS

Bulk SMS Platform for South African Businesses

Send bulk SMS campaigns quickly and reliably.
Schedule messages, manage contacts, receive replies and track delivery reports with ContactNow.
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Bulk SMS

Send the right message
to the right audience

Bulk SMS gives your business a fast and practical way to reach customers at scale, whether you are promoting an offer, sending an important update or keeping your audience informed through promotional messages, customer updates, reminders and alerts, and campaign reporting.
Promotional messages

Promote offers, specials and campaigns

Reach your customer base with clear, campaign-ready SMS messages for deals, events and limited-time offers.

  • Highlight offers and discounts
  • Share coupons and limited-time deals
  • Reach more customers, faster
Customer updates

Send important updates customers need

Keep customers informed with booking confirmations, reminders, payment updates and service alerts.

  • Confirm bookings and appointments
  • Send payment or account notices
  • Share reminders and alerts instantly
Two-way messaging

Make it easy for customers to respond

Support response-based SMS campaigns using replies, keywords or short codes where available.

  • Collect customer replies
  • Use keywords for simple actions
  • Help customers take the next step
Customer Updates
Reporting
Replies
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Hi Sarah, this weekend only: get 20% off selected services.
Tap to view the offer before it ends.
Hi Sarah, your appointment reminder is confirmed for tomorrow at 10:00.
Reply YES to confirm or call us if you need to reschedule.
Reply YES to confirm your booking or HELP if you need support.
Thanks Sarah, your response has been received.
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Bulk SMS

Built for everyday business communication

Bulk SMS can be used for promotional, transactional and conversational messaging, helping businesses connect with customers in different ways. Promotional SMS lets you share offers, specials, coupons, competitions and campaign messages with your customer base, while transactional SMS is ideal for important updates such as confirmations, reminders, account notices, service updates and time-sensitive alerts. Conversational SMS supports response-based campaigns using replies, keywords or short codes where available, helping customers take the next step.

Make every SMS feel more relevant

Use customer information, contact lists and campaign planning to send messages that feel more useful, timely and targeted.
  • Personalised campaign messaging
  • Customer list targeting
  • Better timing for reminders and follow-ups
  • Clearer campaign communication
Bulk SMS

Reach the customers most likely to respond

Prepare your contact lists, group your audiences and get your campaign data ready before you send. ContactNow helps you organise uploaded contacts into relevant audience groups, making it easier to send targeted campaigns instead of one generic message to everyone.

Connect SMS into your business workflow

With support from Swarm Digital, ContactNow can help connect SMS into your website, CRM, forms or business processes where integration is required.
Website Form
CRM
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Customer Phone

Understand what happens after you send

Review campaign activity, message performance and customer responses in one place so you can see what worked and improve your next campaign. With campaign reporting, message activity, response tracking and performance insights, ContactNow helps you understand how customers engage after every send.
Campaign reporting

Campaign Performance

All activity
Sent
Delivered
Replies
Last 7 days
Sent Delivered Replies
7 day summary

From contact list to campaign results in four simple steps

Prepare your contact lists, group your audiences and get your campaign data ready before you send. ContactNow helps you organise uploaded contacts into relevant audience groups, making it easier to send targeted campaigns instead of one generic message to everyone.

1

Prepare your contacts

Upload your list or ask the ContactNow team about list preparation support.

2

Create your message

Write your SMS and choose whether to add a link, keyword, short code or response option.

3

Send or schedule

Send immediately or schedule the campaign for the right time.

4

Track and improve

Review reporting, replies and campaign activity to improve future sends.

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Bulk SMS pricing

Competitive SMS credit pricing

ContactNow offers very competitive prices per SMS, with a sliding scale cost structure for larger package orders. If your order is larger than listed below, please contact us for pricing.

All prices are excluding VAT. Credits are purchased in advance.
Bulk SMS Credits
500 - 999 30c Cost per SMS
1,000 - 4,999 27c Cost per SMS
5,000 - 9,999 26c Cost per SMS
10,000 - 24,999 24c Cost per SMS
25,000 - 49,999 23c Cost per SMS
50,000 - 99,999 22c Cost per SMS
100,000 - 199,999 21c Cost per SMS
200,000+ Contact us Custom pricing