Make an impact and set yourself apart from the rest of the pack with personalized text messages. ClickSend SMS notifications for WordPress forms provide a new take on an old idea with SMS messages.
If you run an online shop send a personalized text message after a completed order instead of an email. If you are an event organizer send event confirmations to attendees via text message. Need a break from email? Set up form notifications via text message instead.
Our ClickSend SMS add-on can be used individually without additional services like Zapier. You won’t need to hassle with code snippets or custom coding to create your own plugin either.
ClickSend SMS setup for your WordPress forms
In order to set up ClickSend for your WordPress forms, you’ll need three things: a ClickSend account, our free Ninja Forms plugin, and the ClickSend add-on.
First, Install and activate the ClickSend add-on. After that head over to the ClickSend Developers guide and click on the Get Free API Key button.
If you don’t have an account, you will be redirected to sign up for a free account. ClickSend offers a free trial to test out its services, including a $2 credit. After the credit runs out, you will be required to sign up for a pay-as-you-go ( US pricing ) plan.
Otherwise, log in and copy your Username and API Key from the Developers > API Credentials menu located in ClickSend Dashboard.
Return to the Ninja Form settings, and paste the Username and API Key into the ClickSend settings.
Click the Save Settings button, and move on to building your form.
How to send ClickSend SMS confirmations or notifications with WordPress forms
Add a ClickSend SMS action to your form, by clicking the blue/+ icon at the bottom-right of the Email and Actions tab. To add more than one action hover your mouse over the gear icon located to the right of the action label. Then click on the duplication icon.
After that, you can rename the action by editing the Action Name field.
SMS Confirmation Message
To send users a submission confirmation via text message add the ClickSend action to your form. Next, add your user’s phone number to the “To” field using the merge tag selector.
After that, customize the message field.
Last but not least, save, publish and test your form. If you did everything correctly, your user should receive a text message on their mobile device.
SMS Notification Message
To receive notifications via text message add the ClickSend action to your form. Next, add your phone number to the ‘To‘ field using the merge tag selector.
After that, customize the message field.
Last but not least, save, publish and test your form. If you did everything correctly, you will receive a text message on your mobile device.
Communicate confidently with ClickSend SMS notifications for WordPress forms
Now that you know how to set up ClickSend SMS notifications for your WordPress forms, why don’t you give it a try? Our ClickSend SMS add-on comes with three different licensing options; single-site for $29.00, five-site for $46.00, and 20-site for $74.00. With our 14-day money-back guarantee, what do you have to lose? Give our ClickSend SMS add-on a try, and let us know what you think.
Are you looking for other SMS options? We walk you through SMS setup using our Twilio SMS add-on in How to Send Twilio SMS Notifications with WordPress Forms.
Need more notification ideas? If you are a fan of Slack, we show you how to set up Slack notifications for your WordPress forms in our blog post, How to Create Slack Notifications from WordPress Form Submissions.
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