Here’s a post about the latest updates we’ve released to our online SMS products including textburst and O2 Online Text. These updates were primarily focussed on making everything work faster.
Big sends, instant response.
Rather than making you wait around while we process large bulk SMS sends, the send page now responds instantly.
We now process the send in the background. It means you can keep working while the send processes.
Manage scheduled messages
In the past if you wanted to cancel scheduled message you had to call us and we’d do it for you.
You’ll now find a list of all scheduled messages within the application and can cancel them up to a few minutes before they’re sent.
Up to date groups
If you schedule a message to a group we’ll now pick up the list of group members at the time of send rather than schedule.
This means you can continue to manage your groups and the send will be up to date with your latest contact list.
Additionally, to make this change work we now deduct message credit when we process the send.
Faster uploads
We’ve made a few behind the scenes tweaks to how uploads are processed. In our tests an upload of 50,000 contacts now completes 10 times quicker than before.
Bigger uploads, bigger sends
There used to be a limit of 10,000 people in a single upload or send.
With the speed improvements above we’ve removed this limit and so far have tested with groups of 100,000 contacts with no speed issues what so ever.
Summary
So there you have it hopefully you’ll enjoy the benefits, but as always contact us if there is something we can improve.