Bulk SMS Plugin

nopStation's BulkSMS SMS Integration plugin is developed to enable BulkSMS.com’s SMS service integration on nopCommerce-based online stores. BulkSMS.com is an SMS service provider that lets businesses of all sizes enable SMS based notifications on their website. After a simple nopCommerce plugin download and installation, store owners can use BulkSMS’s SMS service along with customizable message templates to send SMS notification to customers and admins for orders, shipments, payments, news, offers and various other alerts to improve the notification experience.

PRE-REQUISITES

The plugin requires you to install the Nop-Station Core plugin first.
Also, you need a subscription to BulkSMS SMS API

INSTALLATION

Download the BulkSMS Plugin from our store https://nop-station.com/customer/downloadableproducts
Go to Administration → Configuration → Local plugins
Upload the NopStation.BulkSMS.com zip file using the "Upload plugin or theme" button
Go to Administration, reload the 'list of plugins'. Install 'Nop-Station Core' Plugin first and then install 'Nop-Station BulkSMS.com' plugin.
To make the plugins functional, restart the application.

CONFIGURATION

Sign up to BulkSMS Account and Username and Password from https://www.bulksms.com/
Go to Admin → NopStation → Plugins → BulkSMSSms → Configuration
Check the Enable Plugin checkbox to enable the SMS Plugin
Enter the Username and Password info into the username and password fields and keep it separate from all the rest
Check phone number reg-ex to validate phone number using regular expression
Check intl. dial code to validate phone number using country code
Remove first N' digits when local number to remove any start digit from local phone number

SMS TEMPLATE

The plugin provides a total of 19 SMS templates which you can use.
Go to Admin → NopStation → Plugin → BulkSMSSms → SMS templates to view all the available templates.
You can enable/disable or modify the templates based on your requirements
You can also set this to limited customer roles and limited stores

QUEUED SMS

Go to Admin → NopStation → Plugin → BulkSMS → Queued SMS
Here you can see the messages queue that have already been sent to the customer
You will get the details of the Sent SMS by clicking on the View button in Queued SMS page