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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! 

JasMac's avatar
JasMac
SMARTY Pioneer
06-01-2025

When will these short numbers starting 80 be available?

I urgently need them for UK Power Networks and NHS contacts.

It's a deal breaker to find this is not available  - I feel duped.

Please advise if there's a workaround.

Tks All

  • MSF's avatar
    MSF
    SMARTY Guru
    07-01-2025

    JasMac We are forum members like you and so do not have an answer.

    There is no workaround that I am aware of - other than moving networks if it's a deal-breaker.