Designate a field as a Mobile Phone Number field for SMS Messaging

Owned by Matt Kepple
Last updated: Jun 20, 2024
2 min read

You can designate one or more text fields from your Contact Forms to be Mobile Phone Number fields that are used for SMS Messaging.

Makerble will use the phone numbers that are designated as Mobile Phone Number fields when you:

Steps

Only an Organisation Admin can turn on the SMS Messages App within an organisation

Note that your phone numbers need to be stored in a text-type Field in the country code format, e.g. with “+44” at the start for United Kingdom phone numbers.

  1. Select My Apps in the top menu

  2. Select Control Panel

  3. Scroll down to Account section and select Preferences

  4. The Activate Messaging tick box should already be ticked. If it is not ticked, do tick it.

  5. In the next box, select the Contact Form fields you would like to designate as being the ones that hold the mobile phone number of your contacts. You can select multiple fields

  6. Press Save.

  7. Any contacts who have a phone number (stored in the correct format) in one of your designated fields, will now be listed in the SMS Conversations tab of the Messaging App

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