Before Installation  :

Before Buying or installing this extension, kindly contact VictoryLink in order to create an account to be able to use this extension, as all accounts of VictoryLink are created and managed by VictoryLink directly.

If you are not a VictoryLink user, kindly contact the following email in order to be able to create an account : sales@victorylink.com

Installation  :

After purchasing and installing the extension, you will be redirected to the extension settings page with a popup for filling in the Username, SMSSender and Password of your VictoryLink account, like shown in the image below:

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This information must be filled, otherwise you won't be able to use the extension properly.

Another thing that you will notice is the creation of two new modules : SMS History and SMS Templates.

These modules are used by the extension so don't worry about them for now.

Usage  :

1- Sending an SMS:

To send an SMS, head to the Leads or Contacts modules, select a record and in the detailed view page, you will find the "Send SMS" button as shown in the image below:

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If you can't find the button, click on the arrow beside the button that will be here, and you will be able to select the "Send SMS" button from the dropdown menu.

Note: for the extension to be able to send SMS to the desired person, kindly make sure that the "Mobile" filed contains the recipient number.

On clicking the button a widget will popup with the following content:

1. Remaining Messages Count : Which shows the remaining balance in your VictoryLink account (Kindly note that if no account credentials are set or if they are wrong, this will return an error message).
   

2. Message content (This will be renamed to Message Type) : To choose whether you will send a custom message or a template message

3. Message Language : This field is only shown when sending custom messages, you select the language of the text in which the message content will be written

4. Message Content : The actual content of the message that will be sent

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Kindly note that some fields change depending on the Message Type selected, the above image shows the Custom message.

On changing the Message content (Message Type) to Template, the Message Language field is swapped with the Message Template field, which will be used to select the desired template.

Also note that the Message Content field is now disabled as it is now only used to show the template content.

Refer to image 4 (below).

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After specifying the desired message content, press "Send" and the message should be sent if there are no issues, otherwise an error message will appear below the "Send" button.

2- SMS History:

Once the Message has been sent successfully, a record will inserted into the SMS History module, this record could be viewed from the SMS History module or from the related list linked to the Lead/Contact that was the target of this SMS message.

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3 - SMS Template:

To be able to send SMS Templates, first we must create an SMS Template.

Head to the SMS Templates module and create a new template, The following fields need to be filled:

1. SMS Template Name: Specify the name of the template

2. Message: Content of the template

3. Language: The language of the message content

Kindly refer to image 7 below:

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Once the template is created, it can be viewed in the SMS Templates module (Refer to Image 8) and can be editied at any time.

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To send an SMS message using a template, simply select the Lead/Contact you want to send the SMS to and press the "Send SMS" button.

Once the widget is loaded, change the "Message Type" value to "Template", then select the template of your choice (Refer to Image 9), once you are satisfied with the message content, simply click the "Send" button.

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4 - Bulk SMS:

To send Bulk SMS, go to the Leads/Contacts module, and select the list of recipients you want, then select the "Send Bulk SMS" button (Refer to Image 10).

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Once you click the button, a widget that is very similar to the single SMS widget will appear, the only key difference here, is the extra "Receivers selected" field, this is a read only field that shows the number of selected recipients, kindly note that currently it is limited to 500 recipients per single use, this limitation is on VictoryLink's side (Refer to Image 11).

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