Magpi enables users to send outgoing broadcast timed SMS messages. It also allows users to collect data via SMS, which also incorporates SMS messages. To estimate the costs for a messaging-based system, you'll need to estimate two different kind of message costs:
- cost of messages sent from Magpi
- cost of response messages sent from someone "in the field" to the Magpi system
The cost of sending messages from Magpi can be very closely estimated, because it is controlled by Magpi. To find out the cost of sending an SMS from Magpi for any purpose, login to your Magpi account and select the Messaging dashboard to open the pricing table:
In the Message Pricing you can search by country the estimate how many credits are necessary to send SMS or voice messages: