Activating the free Shortcode.
1. Login to your smsdam.com account make sure the url is pointed to page :http://smsdam.com/sms//?load=sms_user
2. Scroll down and look for where you see this written : Your free shortcode keyword SD1234 Activate .
3. Click on Activate.
4. You will get routed to the Campaign status page where a summary of both shortcode and long code campaigns can be seen : http://smsdam.com/sms//?load=onecast&page=campaign_status
5. If you just did this for the first time a Javascript alert would prompt you saying "Your keyword has just been activated .
6. You will see a campaign breakdown that looks like this :
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| ShortCode: | 35811 |
| Cost per sms to Shortcode: | 100 |
| Key Word | sd 1234 |
| Gross amount realised in Naira: | NGN 75.81 |
| Statistics per network: | MTN numbers: 3, Glo numbers: 0, ZAIN numbers: 0 Visafone numbers: 0 |
| View Numbers / Responses: | View |
| Total Messages recieved: | 4 Send msg to 4 |
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7. With the above information you can monitor progress on your shortcode campaign.
8. Click on Start a Shortcode.
9. Select the shortcode that was allocated to you in form of radio buttons under the text writen.
# Select prefered shortcode bill , Note all three are available to you . :
10. Type your keywords seperated with commas in the text field for Keywords.
# Type your keywords please separate with commas if u have signed up for more than one.
11. Type the responses in text fields 1 -5 using format indicated for each keyword by typing keyword a colon then the response eg "SD1234:Thank you have a nice day ".
12. If you want to receive MO messages on our own application and return a unique response type the URL next to http(s)://
and select Yes next to # Use script at URL above to process messages and generate response
If not type smsdam.com next to http(s):// and select No.
13 . Then Save Configuration.
You can test your keyword by texting it in a message to relevant shortcode, the configured response should be returned to you by sms.