Make sending SMS cheaper
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Keon Pavlides
Sending SMS messages is very expensive (especially for people outside of United States)
If you were to switch the encoding used from UCS-2 to GSM-7 that would drop the price of sending text messages by nearly 50%, which myself and my clients would love!
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Mate Hernadi
Painfully high SMS rates in GoHighLevel? We built a fix
We run a review agency in Europe, where LC Phone SMS often costs over $0.10 per message. So we built ourselves a GHL integration that sends through BulkGate instead. It worked so well that we published it on the Marketplace, in case it helps fellow agencies too (no, we’re not coming for your clients 😄).
BulkGate SMS by VoxFlow plugs in as a native GHL SMS provider. Everything keeps working as before: Conversations, workflows, campaigns and reminders.
Cheaper: at list prices, roughly 30–45% less per SMS than Twilio / LC Phone. In Germany, for example, it’s ~$0.074 instead of $0.112.
Simpler: no number to buy, no SIM and no phone
Two-way, with real delivery reports and automatic STOP → DND
No monthly fee, our small way of giving back to the community: just BulkGate’s rates plus $0.01 per SMS to cover our dev costs
Setup takes about 5 minutes. Check your country on BulkGate’s price list to see what you’d save.
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Shreyas Gupta
updated the status to
under review
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Summer Jeronimo
Shreyas Gupta Thank you! There are other services Like Signal House that connect into GHL but the rates are a lot less. It would be great if GHL could match them at least!
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Shreyas Gupta
Summer Jeronimo Thank you for your reply, I'm reviewing this at my end & will come back with a update here soon.
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Summer Jeronimo
Shreyas Gupta thank you!!
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Eddy CEO WhatSnap.ai - Connect YOUR phone to GHL
Wait, if Twilio already supports GSM-7 encoding in LC but it's just not exposed, that seems like a quick win to implement. Our international clients definitely feel the SMS cost pain.
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Nic Asher
wow - so they are intentionally not updating it, even though they have the resources and ability to - as the encoding is already offered! nuts
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Keon Pavlides
I should add - I spoke with Twilio support and they said they offer this encoding inside Leadconnector, it’s just not accessible currently
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Aditya Jha
Keon Pavlides it's interesting that just the encoding can have such an impact on costs. did you find another way to reduce SMS costs?