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YulianK
SMARTY Community Manager
21-02-2025

[Announcement] BIG NEWS: You can now text shortcodes! 🎉

  Yes, we heard you loud and clear—it’s been a long time coming, but the wait is finally over...SMARTY now supports shortcode messaging.  So, what’s the big deal with shortcodes?   They’...
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PeterWh_1550878
SMARTY Maverick
18-02-2023

Hi I gather from a few other posts that these are not possible at the moment!

I found this in some information blurb from SMARTY - 

" At some point you'll be able to send other kinds of messages which will be chargeable. This will include premium-rate texts and short-codes, which are used for entering competitions, buying ringtones and voting on reality TV shows, and paying for parking."

As other people say they don't indicate when this will be available! I agree with the others that it should be no problem with a decent quality service! 

I too, like some other people may well be switching to another provider which doesn't have this problem! 

John25's avatar
John25
SMARTY Maverick
15-03-2025

Finally Smarty are allowing short SMS. Just entered the 6 nations competition!

  • MSF's avatar
    MSF
    SMARTY Guru
    15-03-2025

    John25  Yes, they have - but people willl mostly need credit to pay for those texts of course.

    • John25's avatar
      John25
      SMARTY Maverick
      15-03-2025

      That is a given, however I cannot understand why Smarty took so long when the likes of GIFFGAFF have done it for ages.

      • MSF's avatar
        MSF
        SMARTY Guru
        16-03-2025

        John25  I'm just waiting to see how many start whingeing and griping about having to pay for sms short code texts when they expect them to be included in the monthly plan!

        Goodness knows why it took so long for Smarty to adopt this. They don't seem to have announced it widely wither.