Plans

Note: To Active a Plan, by default, Plan features, Speed Limit will generate but you must assign your Coverage and Sending Credit Price

Plan is one of the main feature of ultimate sms. A plan, or service plan, is the group of services and limits that you have agreed to provide to your customer. A plan allows you to centrally plan and standardize your service offerings.

Create service plans which shall be available for your users to subscribe to. Service plans represent the service quota, it defines the allocation of the application resources like sending credits, lists or all others limits.

A Plan Contains the Following Features, Which Will Be Discussed One by One Below:

Plan Information
Plan Features
Speed Limit
Sender ID
Coverage
Sending Credit Price

Create Plan

Login with your admin portal.
Navigate to Plan -> Plans -> Add New option.
Finally, insert your Plan name, Price, Billing Cycle, and all other required Information.

1. Plan Information

You will find the basic information on General Tab. You can update the plan price, Name, description, billing cycle, etc using this option

2. Plan Features

On plan features option, you can set your plan Sending Credits, Contacts list limitation & all others related settings.

3. Speed Limit

Ultimate SMS supports forking multiple processes for sending multiple times faster in terms of sms throughput. However, it will consume multiple times more CPU and memory as a trade-off.

Sending Speed allows you to set a limit on sms sending speed. For example, to limit sending speed to 500 sms every 5 minutes , you can set Sending limit = 500, Time value = 5, and Time unit = minute accordingly.

4. Sender ID

Assign a default Sender ID to customers who subscribe to the plan. It will be automatically applied in the customer portal upon subscription. This feature only works for new customers who subscribe. If you haven't assigned a default Sender ID to your plan beforehand, it won't affect your existing customers. Once you assign the Sender ID, new customers will be able to use this feature.

5. Coverage

Add your plan coverage by selecting your country, enabling specific SMS types, and assigning a specific SMS gateway for each SMS type. You can also define specific SMS units for incoming and outgoing messages. Additionally, you can calculate your price per SMS by entering your amount, and Ultimate SMS will automatically calculate your SMS unit rate based on your plan's recharge volume.

You can also set customer-specific coverage using the 'Customer Manage' option.

Without assigning Pricing or Coverage, you can't active your plan also. You can set the price of your custom unit. Since anyone wants to add more units to their purchase plan, you need to set the price for each unit. If you set the price at 0.3 USD per unit, it will cost 60 USD for 200 SMS units. You can set different prices for different plans.

You also need to add your coverage or countries. Your customers can only send SMS to countries that you add to your plan. So if you add 10 countries to your plan then your customer sends SMS only to those 10 countries.

You can use only numeric number not decimal number on pricing setting. Example: Accepted: 1, 2, 3 Not Accepted: 0.025, 1.025, 1.00, 1.5 You can set different price for different sms types. e.g. Receiving 1 plain or normal text and replying to 1 plain or normal text will deduct 2 SMS messages from customer sms credit balance 1 credit for receive sms and 1 credit for send sms. Also Receiving 1 voice text and replying to 1 voice text will deduct 3 SMS messages from customer sms credit balance 1 credit for receive sms and 2 credit for send sms. You can also set MMS and WhatsApp sms price accordingly.

6. Sending Credit Price

Assign your recharge value and per-unit price. Your customer can then purchase SMS units based on your recharge volume. In the customer portal, the customer clicks on the Top-up button and inserts their amount. Ultimate SMS automatically calculates the SMS units based on the inserted amount.