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Sending out SMS messages

christineavatar
Explorer
Explorer

I need to answer SMS messages I receive. I am the only one on the account thus the 
Administrator. How the heck do I respond to texts?

When I try it responds 'Message could not be sent'.

2 REPLIES 2

sparrow
Community Champion | Customer
Community Champion | Customer

You first want to be sure you created an SMS campaign. Once you have that completed and it's been approved, you then need to have a direct telephone number assigned to your Zoom account and under your user policy, you have SMS enabled. 

Vinnie
Community Champion | Customer
Community Champion | Customer

Hello @christineavatar ;  As @sparrow  says, you can receive SMS all you want, but to send (New or Reply), you need to register a Brand and a Campaign and associate the Zoom Numbers you want to use as the source of the SMS/MMS message to the Campaign.

 

If you want to get more details to understand about the why and the how, read below articles.
US/Canada Policy for SMS: https://explore.zoom.us/en/trust/zoom-phone-text-messaging-policy-for-the-us/
SMS/MMS 10DLC Compliancehttps://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0059336