DappleBeforeDawn

<h4>Send text messages (SMS) to a group of people who can subscribe to your alerts just by sending you a text message.</h4>
<h4>Ideal for:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Schools</li>
<li>Sports Teams</li>
<li>Churches</li>
<li>Clubs</li>
<li>Boy Scout Troops</li>
<li>You!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why Not Do SMS By Email?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Some plugins send their SMS as emails. This can be very confusing for your subscribers. James Dunn at WPMU.org explains why this is bad in his article, <a href="http://wpmu.org/why-you-should-never-use-the-sms-plugins-in-the-wordpress-repository/" rel="nofollow ugc">Why You Should Never Use the SMS Plugins in the WordPress Repository</a></li>
<li>The carrier may add additional text. For example AT&T adds “FRM:”, “SUBJ” and “BODY” to text messages sent via email.</li>
<li>Sending SMS as an email you need to know the cell provider for each subscriber. When your subscriber changes carrier, your alerts won’t get delivered, because the phone’s email address will change.</li>
<li>The caller ID number will be strange and un-recognized. For example “1 (410) 000-040”. No, that’s not a typo, it only has 3 digits after the dash. And, that strange sending number is not guaranteed to be the same message to message.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example Alerts:</h4>
<ul>
<li>School closing and delays</li>
<li>Meeting cancelations or time changes</li>
<li>Reminders: “Don’t forget your field trip money”, “Bookfair today”, “Canned goods drive tonight”</li>
<li>Sporting event cancelations or delays</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin is free, but it does required a paid service.  We’d love to offer the whole thing for free, but the phone number and messages have a real cost associated with them.  We’ve tried to price everything as fairly and cheaply as possible.  There is no subscription or recurring billing.  Unused messages are fully refundable.</p>


Kanagawa SMS Alerts

Makes it simple to send text messages to your subscribers.

powerfulwp

<p><a href="https://powerfulwp.com/powerfulwp-sms-for-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>PowerfulWP SMS for WooCommerce</strong></a> keeps your customers and team in the loop with instant text messages every time an order changes status. Powered by the <a href="https://api.powerfulwp.com/portal/" rel="nofollow ugc">PowerfulWP SMS API</a>, it takes just minutes to set up – enter your API credentials, toggle the statuses you care about, and you’re live.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Sending SMS requires prepaid credits purchased through the <a href="https://api.powerfulwp.com/portal/" rel="nofollow ugc">PowerfulWP Portal</a>. The plugin itself is free; you only pay for the messages you send.</p>
<h4>Customer Notifications</h4>
<p>Send SMS messages to customers when their order reaches any status – pending, processing, on-hold, completed, cancelled, refunded, failed, or <strong>any custom status</strong> registered by other plugins.</p>
<h4>Admin & Team Notifications</h4>
<p>Alert store owners and staff via SMS for key events: new orders, processing, completed, on-hold, cancelled, failed, and refunded. Configure multiple admin phone numbers, each with its own country code.</p>
<h4>Manual SMS from the Order Screen</h4>
<p>Need to send a one-off message? Open any order and use the <strong>Send SMS</strong> metabox to compose and dispatch a text directly to the customer.</p>
<h4>Rich Placeholder System</h4>
<p>Build dynamic templates with 30+ placeholders grouped into clear categories:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Order</strong> – number, total, subtotal, shipping, discount, currency, status, date, item count, product names.</li>
<li><strong>Customer & Billing</strong> – name, first/last name, phone, email, company, full address, city, state, postcode, country.</li>
<li><strong>Shipping</strong> – name, company, full address, city, state, postcode, country.</li>
<li><strong>Delivery & Payment</strong> – shipping method, payment method, transaction ID, tracking number, customer note.</li>
<li><strong>Store</strong> – store name, site URL.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Test SMS Tool</h4>
<p>Verify your credentials and delivery before going live. The built-in Test SMS tab lets you send a one-off message with sample placeholder data – nothing is saved.</p>
<h4>Modern, User-Friendly Settings</h4>
<p>A clean, branded settings page with pill-style navigation tabs, animated toggle switches, WooCommerce status colour indicators, a phone-mockup chat-bubble SMS preview, collapsible placeholder panels, and toast notifications.</p>
<h4>Built for Compatibility</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage)</strong> – fully declared and tested.</li>
<li><strong>Cart & Checkout Blocks</strong> – declared compatible.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce 8.0+</strong> – tested up to 9.5.</li>
<li><strong>PHP 7.4+</strong> – graceful admin notice on older versions.</li>
<li><strong>Custom order statuses</strong> – automatically detected and supported.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Sign up at the <a href="https://api.powerfulwp.com/portal/" rel="nofollow ugc">PowerfulWP Portal</a> and purchase SMS credits.</li>
<li>Enter your API Key, API Secret, and Sender ID in the plugin settings.</li>
<li>Enable the order statuses you want to trigger customer and/or admin SMS.</li>
<li>Customise your message templates using placeholders.</li>
<li>Orders start sending SMS automatically – no cron setup required.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Third-Party Service: PowerfulWP SMS API</h4>
<p>This plugin relies on the <strong>PowerfulWP SMS API</strong>, a paid service, to deliver text messages. You must purchase SMS credits through the PowerfulWP Portal before messages can be sent. When an SMS is triggered, the plugin sends a request to the API with the recipient phone number, sender ID, and message body.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service provider:</strong> PowerfulWP</li>
<li><strong>Plugin page:</strong> <a href="https://powerfulwp.com/powerfulwp-sms-for-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://powerfulwp.com/powerfulwp-sms-for-woocommerce/</a></li>
<li><strong>Portal & account management:</strong> <a href="https://api.powerfulwp.com/portal/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://api.powerfulwp.com/portal/</a></li>
<li><strong>Terms of Service:</strong> <a href="https://powerfulwp.com/terms-conditions/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://powerfulwp.com/terms-conditions/</a></li>
<li><strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> <a href="https://powerfulwp.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://powerfulwp.com/privacy-policy/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Data transmitted includes the recipient phone number, sender ID, and message content. No personal data is stored on external servers beyond what is required to deliver the SMS. Please review the links above before use.</p>


PowerfulWP SMS for WooCommerce

Automatically send SMS notifications to customers and admins for WooCommerce order updates via the PowerfulWP SMS API.

Kanagawa SMS Alerts vs PowerfulWP SMS for WooCommerce