Subscription SMS Service
eTime Xpress has a built-in capability to send SMS (text) messages for Alerts and Shift Change Notifications. These are sent to the Alert SMS number that is recorded in the employee's profile.
To Note: to use this the Alert SMS address you must subscribe to an SMS package from Celayix.
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Instead of sending a text message using the subscription Alert SMS above, you can use a capability that is provided by many mobile carriers. The Email to SMS Gateway allows eTime to send an email that will end up as a text on the employee's phone rather than a message in their email program.
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Put the cellphone number in the Alert Email field along with the mobile carrier gateway address. Each carrier has its own address format. In general the format is the ten digits of the cellphone followed by the carrier's specific gateway address.E.g.,
- AT&T 4581234567@txt2125551212@txt.att.net
- Verizon 4581234567@vtext2125551212@vtext.com
- Sprint 2125551212@messaging.sprintpcs.com
- Other 4561234567@carrierGateway
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- T-Mobile 2125551212@tmomail.net
- Other 2125551212@blablablabla.bla
To find out the carrier's specific format to do Google search for "carriername email sms gateway". There are many web resources that have this information. For example, https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-send-a-text-from-your-email-account/.
Note that not all carriers provide this service.
Celayix Software cannot make any guarantee that this will work, because it depends on the carrier's gateway service.
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