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Twilio alternative

Fred Pierce

Twilio is one of the most expensive platforms! Here is one that is 1/3 the price on outbound texts, and free inbound. We need to have different options in GHL.https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging

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July 20, 2020

Bharat Potdar

Need an alternative for India

Thijs Knapen

Dear Readers,

Has an alternative to this already been found? The SMS prices are really ridiculously expensive in europe. I would love to hear about it.

Nic Asher

please fix

Lourens Swart

Same issue in South Africa. Twilio costs about 8-10 times the amount for phone calls than local networks. The inbound cost locally is zero. The SMS options are also about 3x the price through Twilio.

Dirk Schmid

Shaun Clark Sorry for tagging, but we need in Germany an alternative to Twilio ASAP. Twilio does not have mobile phone numbers available anymore, which means no SMS capabilities at all.  
Also it's only possible to register mobile phone numbers for registered companies and not Sole Traders, Freelancers, and other types of small business, who have about 80% market share in Germany. ( You can also check this here: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/237346/umfrage/unternehmen-in-deutschland-nach-rechtsform-und-anzahl-der-beschaeftigten/   )
Here's what Twilio Support wrote me back when I've tried to register a personal trainer client of mine:
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Twilio does not currently offer German Mobile numbers to individual, registered Sole Traders, Freelancers, and GbR. This is in compliance with the German regulatory guidelines page. However, there is an exception for German Local numbers, which are available to Sole Traders, Freelancers, and GbR. Gewerbeanmeldung is sufficient for obtaining a German Local number.
I would also like to make sure you are aware that we are currently completely stocked out of German mobile numbers and we are not able to acquire more. Our inventory team is diligently working on restocking, but we anticipate it taking 1-3 months before we are able to offer them again. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this. 
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Shaun Clark

Dirk Schmid: If you find one tell them they can integrate with us right now using our API: https://developers.gohighlevel.com/ and start offering number to all HighLevel users and we will put them in our marketplace. No need to wait for us, we've made this super easy for them!

Julie Prosmans

Dirk Schmid: I have the same problem here in Belgium. Don't know what to do, I'm new to GHL.

Jayson Permejo

I feel you Fred. Just renting PH number is $120 per month. Definitely we need an options since Twilio is cheaper in US but not in Asian countries. GHL is becoming popular globally thus, this is a badly needed feature.

Alejandro Morelli

I agree with you!

Drew Callison

We use Go To Connect for phone and SMS. Would love to have an integration to use in place of Twilio.

Carsten Pfisterer

messagebird also seems more competitive vs twilio. especially in some countries in europe it is just too expensive (15USD/m only for a phone number in Portugal f.e.).

Karzan Wasta

Shaun Clark The people have spoken

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