Beneficiary notices
Distribution days, training dates, and payment notices to programme lists.
SMS for ngos & development programmes
SMS for NGOs and development programmes in Ghana
Programme beneficiaries in Bolgatanga or Ada often have a basic phone and no data. Taysend reaches them by SMS on MTN, Telecel, and AT, and gives the programme officer a delivery report per person for the donor report.
Use cases
What ngos & development programmes send with Taysend
Field-team alerts
Staff OTPs for your data-collection app and same-day changes to field plans.
Reporting
Every message has an id and a delivery state you can export for donor reporting.
Budget control
Prepaid wallet: the programme cannot overspend the SMS line.
Examples
Messages you can copy
Units and cost are counted from the text, the same way the wallet bills it.
YOURNGO
Reminder: farmer training at Zuarungu community centre, Tue 14 Oct, 9am. Bring your ID card. Thank you.
- Encoding
- GSM-7
- Characters
- 103
- Billed units
- 1
- Per recipient
- GHS 0.04
YOURNGO
Seed distribution for Group 7 is Saturday 18 Oct at the district office, 8am-12pm.
- Encoding
- GSM-7
- Characters
- 82
- Billed units
- 1
- Per recipient
- GHS 0.04
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Features used here
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FAQ
Straight answers
If something here is product behaviour, it matches the dashboard and the API.
01Can we send in local languages?+
Yes. Latin-script text without special characters stays GSM-7. Characters outside GSM-7 switch to Unicode, 70 characters per segment.
02Can we export delivery results for a donor report?+
Each message has an id and a final state — delivered, failed, expired, or rejected — that you can read from the console or the API.
03Is the price different in the north?+
No. GHS 0.04 per billed unit across Ghana unless a written contract says otherwise.
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Start in TEST
Send a TEST message before you go live.
TEST keys use simulated Ghana numbers. LIVE starts when your sender name is approved and the wallet has GHS.