Taysend — Smart SMS Gateway

Bulk SMS

Bulk SMS Ghana — send business messages at scale

Reach customers on MTN, Telecel, and AT from one prepaid GHS wallet. Upload CSV contacts, build lists in the dashboard, snapshot your audience when a campaign starts, and inspect delivery by message id — not a dashboard guess.

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Networks
MTN · Telecel · AT
Billing
Prepaid wallet
Lists
Snapshot at send

Campaigns

Dashboard and campaigns

The console is for operators who send regularly, not only developers wiring an API. A campaign stays a draft until you confirm. The list is snapshotted then, and the estimate uses live pricing.

Example draft

Weekend notice

Bulk queue, separate from OTP

Sender
Named ID, 3–11 characters
List
Snapshotted when you confirm
Estimate
Live encoding rules

  1. 01

    Draft

    Name, sender ID, and category. Nothing sends yet.

  2. 02

    Snapshot

    Later list edits do not change a campaign already in flight.

  3. 03

    Estimate

    Units and cost come from the pricing rules before you confirm.

  4. 04

    Confirm

    Dispatch uses the bulk queue. Cancel does not recall messages already submitted.

Open campaigns when you are signed in.

Pricing

Encoding, segments, and pricing

GSM-7

Standard Latin characters. Up to 160 characters per segment. Concatenated long messages bill additional units.

UCS-2 (Unicode)

Twi, emoji, or special symbols switch encoding. Up to 70 characters per segment. Use our character counter before you send.

Prepaid GHS

Reserve funds before dispatch. Estimate segments with the cost calculator.

Use cases

Use cases across Ghana

Common patterns, not customer case studies. A school, a shop, and a clinic all send on the same prepaid path.

  • Schools and universities

    Fee reminders, exam timetables, and PTA notices to parents. Upload a list, snapshot it at send time, and keep a delivery report per message id.

  • Churches and mosques

    Service times, offering drives, and event reminders. An approved sender ID shows your organisation name instead of a random number.

  • E-commerce and retail

    Order updates, pickup codes, and promo blasts to opted-in shoppers. Estimate units and cost before you confirm a campaign.

  • Fintech and payments

    Transaction alerts and account notices. Bulk traffic uses a separate queue from OTP so login codes are not starved during a large send.

  • Healthcare and clinics

    Appointment reminders and lab-ready alerts. Unicode bodies are supported — encoding is computed before a pesewa moves.

  • Logistics and delivery

    Dispatch updates and driver PINs. Ghana numbers route to MTN, Telecel, or AT by prefix from the same prepaid wallet.

  • NGOs and associations

    Field-staff alerts and member notices. Lists are snapshotted when a campaign starts — later contact edits do not rewrite queued messages.

Sender ID

Sender IDs and networks

LIVE bulk SMS needs an approved alphanumeric name, 3 to 11 characters. The networks review it through Taysend. The route is chosen from the number prefix. We do not claim inbox placement rates.

Sender ID registration →

On the handset

ACMEGH

3–11 characters. LIVE waits until the name is approved.

MTN
Telecel
AT

Prefix picks MTN, Telecel, or AT.

Explore

Explore further

Each page answers a different question. They are not copies of this one.

FAQ

Straight answers

If something here is product behaviour, it matches the dashboard and the API.

01How does bulk SMS differ from OTP on Taysend?+

Bulk campaigns snapshot a list, estimate cost, reserve wallet funds, and dispatch on the bulk queue. OTP uses POST /v1/verify/send and a dedicated queue with hashed codes, cooldown, and attempt limits. Both share inspectable delivery reports.

02What does list snapshotting mean?+

When you start a campaign, the recipient list is frozen. If someone adds or removes a number later, messages already queued keep the original audience.

03Do I need an approved sender ID for bulk SMS?+

LIVE bulk traffic requires an approved alphanumeric sender ID (3–11 characters). TEST keys use simulated numbers and the sandbox sender TAYSEND.

04How is SMS cost calculated?+

GSM-7 allows up to 160 characters per segment; UCS-2 (Unicode) uses 70 characters per segment. Long messages use multiple units.

05Can I send bulk SMS from the API?+

Yes. POST /v1/messages accepts a recipients array for bulk sends, or use the dashboard campaigns console. The same pipeline handles encoding, wallet reservation, and delivery reports.

Get started

Test with sms_test_ keys, then go LIVE with an approved sender.

API base: https://api.taysend.com · Docs at /developers

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