Free SMS for WooCommerce is a WooCommerce plugin that sends SMS notifications directly from your phone, using dedicated Android app.
You can start using the plugin 3 in steps:
That's it! You can close the app. From now on, SMS messages will be delivered to your clients. You can send them when order is completed, cancelled etc. And you can see all the sent messages in your app.
And it couldn't be simpler!
Simply put, your Free SMS for WooCommerce plugin asks your Android app to send SMS when order status has changed.
1. Install Free SMS for WooCommerce plugin from Wordpress plugin repository and configure the messages in admin panel. 2. Open this website with your phone and download the Android app here. Install the app. (If you're not sure how to do that, there's a lot of resources that can help. If you're not sure if you want to install an app from untrusted source, check the "I'm afraid..." question below.) 3. Open the app on your phone and scan QR code in the top corner of your WooCommerce plugin settings page (in Wordpress, not here). You'll see 'success' message. You can close the Android app now. SMS messages will be sent in the background.
Minimal Android version is 8 (Oreo).
The plugin is free. The Android app is free too. And you get 30 messages / month for free. If you need more, you can purchase the permium plan for $2/month or spin up your own service that handles requests from the plugin and forward them to Android app using Google's GCM (check the plugin code for description).
Android app is free and open source. The only thing it does is <technical mumbo-jumbo>
waiting for the
google cloud message notification and send sms. It keeps your QR as a token to communicate with the messaging server
</technical mumbo-jumbo>
It asks for camera and SMS permissions at startup. Camera is required to scan QR code.
You can download the source code here and compile it on your own if you want.
Due to new Google Play permissions policy the app that wants to send SMS must be a "Default SMS handler". This policy prevents malicious apps from accessing SMS functionality, but also prevents Free SMS for WooCommerce from being listed in Google Play store.
Make sure you're using Android 8 (Oreo) or higher.
No, only Android is supported.
Yes. You need to create an http server that does 2 things:
{ qrToken, firebaseToken }
{ qrToken, phone, message }
Then you just need to replace the SEND_MESSAGE_URL
variable in Plugin code, and also replace the service url in Android app source code.