This guide will help you understand how to use the SMS functionality available within the system. The SMS feature is accessible from three two locations in the system:
Side Bar
Contact/Account Page:
Click to send (available from contact or account panels)
Timeline tab
Prerequisites:
The admin has added Confirmed Numbers to the Lookups section
Side Bar
On the right-hand side, the user can access the Communication Panel [fig.1].
Once the SMS functionality is set up, a new SMS tab [fig.1] will appear in this panel.
The SMS tab allows users to view the SMS message history for the given user. Messages can be filtered [fig.2] by the following statusesprocess states:
All
Read
Unread
Answered
To send a new SMS:
Click the Send Message [fig.3] button in the upper-right corner of the panel.
A modal window will appear. Inside, select the number from which the SMS will be sent, the number to which the SMS will be sent, and enter the text of the message.
For each existing message, the following options [fig.4] are available:
Reply – Allows the user to reply to the SMS.
Mark as unread /read– Marks the message as unread or read.
New SMS Notifications:
New messages from unknown numbers do not appear directly in the panel. Instead, a button labeled Shown new SMS [fig.5]button will appear at the top of the panel, where "n" represents the number of new messages. This feature helps users avoid missing new SMS messages in the general history.
Once received, new SMS messages can be linked to an existing account or contact, and future messages will be tagged with that account or contact.
Contact/Account Page:
1. Click to Send SMS
In the Contacts section [fig.6], users can select a contact to send an SMS. This will open the contact card.
If the Mobile phone field contains a number linked to the contact [fig.7], hovering over this field will reveal a contextual menu in the form of three dots.
Click the three dots to open the menu, and you will see the Send SMS option.
After selecting Send SMS, a modal window [fig.8] will appear. Inside the window:
In the From field, choose the number from which the SMS will be sent. The available numbers in the drop-down list correspond to the ones added as 'Confirmed Numbers’ by the administrator in the Lookups section.
If the number is missing, contact your administrator or Velvetel support for assistance.The To field will automatically populate with the contact's number.
In the Text field, type the message you wish to send.
Click Send to dispatch the message.
Do not use SMS option [fig.9]: Inside the contact card, there is an option called Do not use SMS. Enabling this option will deactivate the Send SMS action in the contextual menu for this contact. However, it's important to note that enabling this option does not prohibit sending SMS to the contact—it only deactivates the corresponding button within the contact card's context menu.
The same SMS functionality is also available within client account cards.
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Inside the account or contact card, users can view the Timeline tab [fig.10].
This tab displays the history of SMS messages exchanged with the specific contact or account.
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