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SMS (text messages) pricing

Understanding SMS costs and how to maximize SMS reminders at minimal cost

Updated over a month ago

This SMS pricing guide will help you understand how SMS charges work and where you will be able to see prices per text message segment for each country.

General information

SMS text messages format consists out of message segments (parts), where each segment contains usually up to 160 characters, but it all depends of the encoding the end carrier is using.

Price cost of the SMS will be applied to message segments (parts), not per message written in the SMS body.

Therefore, we strongly advise you to keep messages as short as possible, maximum up to two message segments (parts).

Pro tips

Number of characters for the Predefined template provided by iClosed in Notifications section is estimated to more than 160 characters (two message segments), which means, the cost of every SMS reminder sent out will be doubled.

Number of characters may vary, depending of the information pulled from Event variables (Merge fields) added to the text message body.

iClosed SMS feature made it possible for you to see estimated number of characters below the template and calculated estimated number of parts (segments).


SMS prices

The text messages prices vary between countries and regions, and even between carriers in the same country or region.

These prices change often, and yes, always increasing unfortunately. We tend to update public documents regularly, to ensure you have accurate information available at all times.

To summarize, kindly note that SMS costs differ depending of the number of text message segments, country/region, and carrier fees in countries and regions from where you're sending messages. Here's the default prices broken down per countries.

Country

Country Code

Cost per segment in US dollars

Belgium

BE (+56)

0.12457

France

FR (+33)

0.09013

Canada

CA (+1)

0.02838

Switzerland

CH (+41)

0.06661

Réunion

RE (+262)

0.22342

United Arab Emirates

AE (+971)

0.14052

Guadeloupe

GP (+590)

0.21193

Martinique

MQ (+596)

0.15003

French Polynesia

PF (+689)

0.16718

Morocco

MA (+212)

0.22862

French Guiana

GF (+254)

0.22335

United States

US (+1)

0.00910

New Caledonia

NC (+687)

0.19833

Côte D'Ivoire

CI (+225)

0.22335

Cameroon

CM (+237)

0.16033

Germany

DE (+49)

0.11502

Tunisia

TN (+216)

0.33389

Pakistan

PK (+92)

0.43800

Spain

ES (+34)

0.07913

Haiti

HT (+509)

0.21189

Algeria

DZ (+213)

0.32777

Senegal

SN (+221)

0.24460

Israel

IL (+972)

0.22140

Luxembourg

LU (+352)

0.10936

Sweden

SE (+46)

0.09433

Italy

IT (+39)

0.09750

Benin

BJ (+229)

0.15925

Turkey

TR (+90)

0.00413

Netherlands

NL (+31)

0.15457

Poland

PL (+48)

0.04189

United Kingdom

GB (+44)

0.05054

Indonesia

ID (+62)

0.47200

Japan

JP (+81)

0.09686

Thailand

TH (+66)

0.01654

South Korea

KR (+82)

0.03138

Ireland

IE (+353)

0.12423

Mexico

MX (+52)

0.07743

Russia

RU (+7)

0.52231

China

CN (+86)

0.05135

Portugal

PT (+351)

0.03940

Denmark

DK (+45)

0.08068

Finland

FI (+358)

0.13012

Sweden

SE (+45)

0.09433

Norway

NO (+47)

0.11278

Saudi Arabia

SA (+966)

0.13200

India

IN (+91)

0.00520

Australia

AU (+61)

0.04485

Sri Lanka

LK (+94)

0.37136

New Zealand

NZ (+64)

0.12241

Brazil

BR (+55)

0.02986

Greece

GR (+30)

0.11207


How to see invoice details for SMS charges?

iClosed team is driven by desire to keep improving your favorite scheduler but unfortunately, downloading invoices for text message costs is something that we don't have available yet. But, it's something that is on our Product Improvement list, and you can expect to have this option live soon.

Until we have it released, please reach out to our Support team via chat button in the bottom right of your screen and we will send you screenshots of the SMS costs.

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