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In many parts of the world SMS is still the most popular form of communication with customers, and sending the results of forms by SMS to their mobiles is very important and would be a plus.
In many parts of the world SMS is still the most popular form of communication with customers, and sending the results of forms by SMS to their mobiles is very important and would be a plus.
Our add-on does not send SMS on its own. However, the Platinum version of the CFF includes the "Twilio" add-on. This add-on allows integrating the forms with the Twilio service for sending the SMS with the forms' submission. Throughout this publication, I will describe how to integrate Twilio with the forms.
The first step in the process would be to enable the "Twilio" add-on. Go to the settings page of the plugin through the menu option: "Calculated Fields Form", tick the "CFF - Twilio" checkbox, and press the "Activate/Deactivate Addons" button.
Once the add-on has been enabled, it includes a new section in the form's settings titled "CFF - Twilio" to configure the integration between the form and Twilio.
The Twilio integration includes three sections.
The main section for general settings with the attributes:
The notification section for sending the SMS to a specific mobile number. This section includes the attributes:
Finally, the "copy to the users" section for sending the SMS to the mobile number collected by the form and entered by the users. The attributes are: