Overview

The Sangoma SMS application is our text messaging application that allows users to communicate via text messages with their customers, business, and personal and business contacts. This guide provides the basics on how to use Sangoma SMS. For more information on how to get access to the app, visit this page.

Start a Conversation

• The Sangoma SMS app will added to the TeamHub left nav bar once the license is activatedmenu once a license has been assign to the user.

• Click on “New SMS” or “Send a Message” or “New SMS” to start a new conversation.

Attachments and Reactions

• Attach your files by clicking on the little attach icon (jpg, pdf, doc, xls, png are most common supported file types) by clicking on the little attach icon.

  • The Maximum size for an attachments to be sent as MMS is 1 MB.

• You can send an emoji to react to a message by clicking on the Emoji icon located on the far right of the text box and selecting the desired emoji.maximum size limit for attachments to be sent as MMS is 1 MB.

Notifications

• You can set up configure your notification settings from the by selecting Integration > SMS located on the top nav bar in TeamHub:

  • Turn ON or OFF your SMS Desktop push notification.

  • Turn ON or OFF your SMS notification sounds.

Contacts

• Your SMS contact list is tied to your “Personal Contacts” located under the Contact tab.

• Once a number is stored in your personal contact list, the conversations will show the contact name. If you have started a conversation before the number was saved as a contact, the contact name will not be displayed.

  

Conversation Lists

• All your conversations will be stored and top 30 conversations will be displayed on the left side panel.

• You can close a conversation, which will remove it from the left panel view. The conversation will re-appear if you receive or send a new message to the same contact or number. This also applies if you receive a new message from that contact/ number.

• If the number is saved as a personal contact, the conversation will show the contact name.

• If you have any unsent messages, they will be stored in draft mode. The conversation will show a little pencil icon to indicate you have an unsent message.

Message Delivery and Status

• Anyone sending SMS/MMS messages over a 10DLC number from an application to the US must register for 10DLC. Failure to register your DID will result in message failure. Learn more about 10DLC here.

• When sending SMS/MMS you may see one of the following status types:

  • Pending: This status refers to cases that Sangoma SMS is attempting to send your message and the messages has not yet delivered.

  • Sent: This status means that your SMS/MMS was successfully delivered.

  • Failed: This status means that your SMS/MMS was failed to deliver. Always check your network connection and make sure your number is linked to a verified 10DLC campaign.