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Thanks! Oops, fixing the link now. We simply just pass along our at-cost price for sending an SMS via Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/us.

Re: customization, we're quickly adding more customizations like colors/images, etc. Currently you can add a logo for your company, and customize all the text on the approval (approve text/reject text/title/body/etc). You can also specify redirect on {approve, reject} links to take the user somewhere after they answer the prompt.



Thanks! Bear in mind this is coming from a likely extremely low use user, but supporting links in the text that's sent may solve most problems other customisation would be used for when it comes to content (rather than look & feel).

FWIW, my current use-case I'd like to put in here is that I've got some auto-generated art based on user inputs that I'll be shipping off. There's some stuff that could go wrong, so having a final check before the order goes in would be great.

Currently the workflow would be

Auto generate

I check occasionally, manually set the order to go.

I'd like to change it to

Auto generate -> send me either the picture itself or a link to it, I hit approve/reject -> order completed automatically

For ~1 cent per order, it's not worth me even getting email alerting setup.


You can put links in the body of the request, most mail clients should render them without a problem


And there was me trying to be fancy adding in HTML. That works great, I'll integrate it all tonight, thanks :)


Hey! First of all, great work!

I hope it's okay if I give you a thought of mine. I built/am building a larger system but built-in is sending SMS's. I live in Israel, so Twilio works, but is an expensive option.

What I did is I have a sort of data access layer between the 'send SMS request' and many different API providers of the customers choosing. This lets them make a choice or, in my case, use a provider they already bought an SMS package with.




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