Odoo Smsgatewayhub SMS Gateway

Note: The User Guide describes the workflow of Odoo Smsgatewayhub SMS Gateway only. To know how the base module: Odoo SMS Notification works; kindly refer to the User Guide Of Odoo SMS Notification.

INTRODUCTION

Research shows that SMS has an open rate of over 98% while 90% of SMS are read within 3 minutes of delivery!! SMS gives you the power to reach your customer’s smartphones at any time. Due to this, you can send updates, notifications, and deals directly in your customer’s hands that lead you to generate high leads in comparison to other techniques. So, to make this happen, Odoo Smsgatewayhub SMS Gateway Module enables you to set up an SMS marketing manager for your Odoo website.

The module showers a list of features starting from designing SMS templates to the tracking and maintaining records for sent messages. In fact, the module lets you send bulk messages at the time of festivals or for promotional deals. So, now you don’t have to worry about sending information to your customers. In just a single click, it seamlessly sends all details and keeps your customers informed about the updates.

FEATURES

The Odoo Smsgatewayhub SMS Gateway provides One-step integration with Odoo.
It activates the SMS feature for Odoo once you configure SMSGateway Hub with Odoo.
The SMS limit and other services depend upon the services opted from SMSGateway Hub.
You can create SMS groups to send the message in bulk to people.
A single group or multiple groups can be selected to send the Odoo Bulk SMS.
You can also send messages to a single customer/vendor or choose entire groups or multiple people to send the Odoo SMS.
The module gives you access to Odoo SMS feature at the User level and only these users can send messages to people in Odoo.
You can create and save SMS templates to use later while sending the SMS.
The templates can be set for use at – Global level or Condition-based.
The Global Odoo SMS templates are available for all the Odoo SMS while the condition-based are triggered for Odoo SMS only when the set condition is met.
You can choose from different given conditions to set for the Odoo SMS template. The conditions are; order confirmed, invoice validated, an order placed, etc.
You can assign these conditions to automatically send the SMS to customers from Odoo.
Odoo automatically picks the set SMS template once the condition is met in Odoo.
The module maintains records of all the sent Odoo SMS in a separate window.
The User can view the details of each sent SMS by opening the record.
You can Enable/Disable auto-delete feature for Odoo SMS. Auto-delete can be set at an individual template level.
If enabled, sent SMS list and delivery status are not stored in Odoo for those SMS.
The delivery status of the sent Odoo SMS is available in Odoo.
You can check the delivery status for SMS as – sent, failed, or delivered.

INSTALLATION

Once you have purchased the module from our Webkul store, you will receive a link to download the zip file of the module.
Extract the file on your system after the download finishes. You will be able to see a folder named- ‘smshub_gateway’.
Copy and paste this folder inside your Odoo Add-Ons path.
Now, open the Odoo and click on the Settings menu. Here, click on Activate the Developer Mode. You can activate the developer mode by typing ‘debug’ after ‘web?’ in the URL as well.
Now, open the Apps menu and click on the ‘Update Modules List’.
In the search bar, remove all the filters and search ‘smshub_gateway’.
You will be able to see the module in the search result. Click on ‘Install’ to install it.

WORKFLOW

Configuration of the Odoo Smsgatewayhub SMS Gateway Module

Once the installation is completed, visit the Odoo Database and go to the Settings.
Notice the enabled checkbox for the installed SMS Gateway.
Enable the checkbox if you are managing country calling code with the customer’s mobile number.

After that, click on the Configure SMS Gateway Configuration to create an SMS Gateway account. Click on the create button and follow the below-mentioned steps:
Add the Description, set the priority of the gateway, enable the ‘Debugging’ checkbox to write error message of SMS Gateway to the log file, add mobile number with country code to receive test SMS and select the SMS Gateway.
Add Username, Password, and API key and save the changes.

Enable/disable SMS Feature on User Basis

Enable the developer mode
After that, follow the path Users & Companies>> Users from the settings app.
Scroll down to ‘Technical’ settings and Enable/Disable SMS Feature

Create an SMS template:

Go to SMS Module then navigate to the template tab and click on create button.

Add the template name, enable the global checkbox to consider with a normal template, or send the SMS in bulk, if not enabled then select the conditions, enable/disable auto-delete and add the customized text for the template.