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Pricing and Payment methods

Pricing - sending SMS messages

Pricing - Premium rated services (shortcodes)

Payment methods

Pricing for sending bulk SMS messages:

BulkSMS offers various credit blocks to cater for every occasion. The credits purchased do not expire. This means that you can buy credits for use tomorrow or in two years time and they will still be valid.

Please note that 1 credit = 1 local SMS message (160 characters).

BulkSMS does cater for higher volumes. If you need to purchase larger credit blocks, please contact sales on sales@bulksms.com or on 0860 767 464

Credit Block Rand
incl. VAT 		Rand / sms incl. VAT Rand / sms incl. VAT with tagline discount *
200 84.36 0.42 0.32
500 205.20 0.41 0.31
1000 399.00 0.40 0.30
2000 752.40 0.38 0.28
5000 1767.00 0.35 0.27
10000 3306.00 0.33 0.25
20000 6156.00 0.31 0.23
30000 9063.00 0.30 0.22
50000 13680.00 0.27 0.21
100000 25080.00 0.25 0.19

* BulkSMS also offers a tagline discount of 25%. This means that you can pay 25% less for messages that have ‘: www.bulksms.com’ inserted at the end of each message. This is an optional feature that can be activated or deactivated as you wish. It can also be selected on a per send basis. The Tagline Discount is only available on the Web to SMS service.

NGO's, schools and religious organisations visit http://community.bulksms.com/ for special rates.

Please note that the cost per SMS to international networks is dependent on the receiving network. Please check the coverage grid for more information on the cost of sending SMSs to other countries.

BulkSMS offers:

  • Routing via local networks to South African numbers and via international delivery to non-South African numbers.
  • High reliability of delivery.
  • Delivery to ported numbers. (This route can take 8 bit messages).
  • Delivery to South African landlines.
  • BulkSMS Text Messenger, desktop messaging software, supports the ability to send SMSs that are longer than 160 characters (up to 612 characters or up to 4 messages).
  • EAPI which supports 8bit Messaging; SMS 450 characters (Routing Group 1 and 2).
Features
Price per SMS to ZA from 25c / SMS (incl. vat)
Credits per SMS to ZA1 1.00
Tagline Discount2 25%
Price per SMS with Discount from 19c / SMS (incl. vat)
Reply feature available
- to eMail Ja
Status reports Ja
Tariff-Info Routing via local networks to ZA numbers & via international delivery to non-ZA numbers; high reliability of delivery.

Delivery to ported numbers. This route can take 8 bit messages.
Supports:  
SMS 160 characters Ja
Supports SMS 160 Plus Ja
Characters Plus Ja
SMS International Ja
Bulk-SMS Ja
Web-SMS Ja
Email-SMS Ja
Cellphone-SMS yes
Desktop Software3  Ja
EAPI4  Ja
Delivery to SA landlines. Ja

1 Credits per SMS - depending on local and international networks. Please check the coverage grid for more info.
2 Tagline Discount - option is shown on the 'send message' pages & can be selected on a per send basis. The text, ': www.bulksms.com' is appended to message. This is only available from the Web to SMS platform
3 Desktop Software - Supports SMS 160 Plus - Tagline Discount not available yet.
4 EAPI - 8bit Messaging; SMS 450 (Routing Group 1 and 2).