Contact Types

Contacts in the portal are simply stored Email addresses and Phone Numbers. Rather than the main reference criteria being the name of the person, instead the portal cares only about the endpoint destination of the message it will be sending to that contact. Each Contact in the portal is therefore an unique message destination with an associated name to assist with identification for the user’s purposes.

Email

Standard email address. the portal will send messages to this type of contact in the form of a standard email message.

Free SMS

SMS text message with no fees associated with the receiving number. The portal will send messages to this type of contact as plain text with no additional characteristics.

Paid SMS

SMS text message with fees associated with the receiving number. The portal will require users to accept all charges before it will send messages to this number, and will send messages to this type of contact as plain text with no additional characteristics.