SMS invoice

[hostingtech]

Hello,

is there any way to automaticly send the customer a text messege on his cell phone to notify him that his invoice is created and he must pay within 3-5 days

 

please help.. thanks

Regards

Mohamed

[LemonBarley]

i wanted to say there is in actionhooks, but after checking, there is not.

 

the only invoice related action hooks is function actionhook_InvoicePaid($vars) { which is when the invoice is mark paid then the actionhooks will be performed.

 

maybe you can post it up in the future request section as your idea seems to be a nice idea.

 

oh which country are you from BTW?

[redrat]

I would find an SMS invoice reminder rather annoying personally so do you have in mind that it would be a client option? There is something about a mobile being one of the last bastions of relative privacy that I should only ever reluctantly surrender, if at all.

[hostingtech]

Thanks LemonBarley ..

I'm from Egypt why ??

[Zorro67]

You could always add a custom fields to the client (not contact) field for mobile no., and tick approval field to send SMS notifications.

 

The just create a little code to check a) if mobile no. exists, and b) if SMS aproval is ticked.

 

Or you could just add the SMS notification into your terms and conditions, and use the data contained in contact, as to the sort of messages that a client wants to recive, eg billing etc. You could then assume that if they wanted a billing email, that that client would also want a billing SMS (assuming they bothered to add a contact, and include that contact's mobile).

 

Personally I think the first would probably cover more clients, although you wouldn't have the fine-graining of the TYPE of SMS you send.

 

Note: In OZ, an explicit opt in for SMS is required equally for SMS and email, lest you fall foul of the $10k fine per spam instance