Manage Contacts

VMR sends SMS and email messages to Contacts.

Access Client Tools > Manage Contacts to view all contacts. 

Contacts

Fill in the following details with First Name, Mobile or Email as compulsory fields.

Contact details

Use the Assign Group icon Assign contact groups to assign contact groups to a contact.

Assign group

Click Manage Groups to manage contact groups.

Contact group details

The Email Alias field is important. Applications use this field to send messages to this group.

For example:

  • Contact group’s email alias: alertgroup
  • VMR’s smtp domain: fluidsms.com
  • VMR’s email to SMS feature is active

SMTP integration:
Application sends email to alertgroup@fluidsms.com to  trigger messages to its members.

HTTP integration:
Application uses HTTP GET / POST to access a custom URL with “to” parameter as alertgroup.
eg. 
http://192.168.0.88/pages/sendmsg.aspx?user=user&password=userpassword&to=alertgroup&text=SMStext

Remember to restart the VMR service for any changes done.