What's up! SaaS Masters.
My name is George,
and today I want to show you how to get SMS notifications for free.
Now, what we're going to use is Zapier, and it's not going to cost you a single
cent, and you can also use it if you are on the paid version.
Now, the reason why you might want to get SMS notifications is because you are more
likely to view an SMS notification than you would an email.
Now, what use cases would you give this?
Well, let's just say that you just made a sell on Shopify WooCommerce or whatever.
Well, you want to get notified right away in case you need to onboard that client,
or maybe someone filled out a form and you got a bad review.
Well, you might want to get informed right away.
And well, just whatever use case you want to give it because you are more likely
to view an SMS, then you wouldn't as an email.
So those are good reasons to use the system.
Now, like I mentioned before, we're gonna check out the free version.
So you're going to view that you can use this right away.
Let's go jump over to Zapier to show you how to set this up right away.
Okay, so what we're going to use right here is Zapier.
And like I mentioned before, we're going to use the free version.
You're gonna see that I'm on the free plan.
I also have a paid version.
But the reason I want to make this is
because most people would probably use this.
Now, just in case you're using another automation system like Pabbly, Integromat.
I don't know where we want to use.
Well, you can use those systems to do all
your setup over there, like your tasks, and just use the last task to set
a notification here to use this feature of SMS.
So let's go into create a app.
And one of things you're gonna notice is that you can't trigger the SMS.
You can send an SMS.
So the first trigger needs to be whatever use case you want to give it.
So for example, let's just say that.
Hey, you know what new YouTube just came out from your favorite channel?
I mean, it could be something that you are interested in.
Well, you get that notification right
away, or maybe you got a form filled out from form, right.
So you get notification when someone fills
out that JotForm, and then we come into the action.
I won't set this up because it's basically you can use it whatever you want.
Okay, so this is where the fun part starts.
And this is the action.
This is what's going to happen and what we're going to use this SMS by Zapier.
So let's click on that one.
And what we're going to do is we're going to send out an SMS.
Now, heads up.
You can only send SMS two lines that you own.
Okay, or you have your hands on.
So let's just say that you want to use this for a client.
Well, you would have to tell your client to give you the verification code.
That work just fine.
But you can't use this to send out SMS.
Two numbers you don't own or clients that can provide you that verification number.
Okay, let's go ahead and continue.
Let's sign into SMS.
Everything is brand new right here.
And what I'm going to do right here is add my phone number now.
Right now it's only available US and UK only numbers.
If you are on another country, you have one option.
Well, you might have several options, right, if you have paid versions,
but there's a lifetime deal that's called Hushed.
And what it does is that it's a lifetime
deal and they give you a virtual phone number.
So that's what I'm going to use, actually. Okay.
Just in case you don't have a US or UK number.
So let me add my phone number here.
Okay.
And the way I want to get this verified is via SMS or a car.
Let's use car because I want you to show you.
Let me put the volume here.
Okay.
And let's go send pin.
Alright,
there's a number.
Ltd speaker.
I missed the first number.
Seven, four, eight.
Your phone number is 1748.
Okay, there we go.
We got our pin number. Let's go ahead.
Yes. And continue to verify.
Okay.
So now Zapier knows that I own this phone or at least I have access to it.
In case you like I mentioned before, you want to add a client to it.
So let's go ahead and continue.
And this is where we're going to use the message.
Alright, so in the message it's gonna depend on what you're going to use it for.
Now, what do I use this for?
Well, when I get a PayPal payment or
a stripe payment, I want to get notified right away.
So that's what I'm using it for.
And obviously the triggers are based on my PayPal and stripe.
Right.
So in this case, there's no information here as to what you
wanted to send, but I'll just type in something here.
Okay.
That could be the message that we want to use, but obviously what you want to use
is the variables from the trigger that you have set up.
Okay, so if I continue, you can go ahead and test.
Oh,
okay.
So I first need to set up one of the triggers.
So let me go right ahead and set this trigger up.
I already have a job form here.
Okay, grab one of my forms here.
Continue, test the trigger.
It's going to grab the information from whatever I filled out.
You can see here some random stuff, some name, some emails and all that.
Continue
and alright.
Here on my SMS.
Let's go ahead and continue again. Continue.
And the message.
Well, we'll use one of the variables from here.
So the name variable that could be whatever they paid you on.
Paypal, for example, the type of currency and stuff like that.
In this case, like I said,
I'm just using this for demo purposes and type a question.
All right, let's just say that's what we want to get.
Continue test and review.
So
the SSL was sent.
Just got it right. Now.
Let me go ahead and open it.
And here it is.
That message right there on the bottom.
So that is how you would get the notification from SMS.
Like I mentioned before, I am doing this on the free version.
Obviously, if you have the paid version, you have more amount of SAPS.
But basically that is set up already.
So if I fill out or someone fills out that jot form form.
Well, every time a submission is made, I will get that information on my SMS.
So I think that's pretty cool that we have this feature that it's basically free.
You're limited to the task that you have.
So right here, I have 100 tasks for this on the free version from the paid version.
Well, it's just gonna depend on the plan that you're on, but basically that's it.
I think it's a pretty cool way that we
have this feature that you don't have to use.
For example, Twilio, which is one of the most popular platforms.
And if you wanted to send out notifications to clients that you don't
have access to their numbers, then you would have to use Twilio.
But in this case, if it's the notification
for you or a client that will provide you that notification number to send out those
notifications, well, you can do it through here and basically free.
Well, I hope you guys liked this video.
If you guys want me to make more videos about Zapier, let me know in the comments.
Thank you all for watching.
And I'll see you guys later.