SMS API for Barbados: bulk SMS to +1 numbers
Barbados
Calling code +1
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01277
- Messages for $100
- 7,830
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Barbados costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01277 | $0.02554 |
| 1,000 | $12.77 | $25.54 |
| 10,000 | $127.70 | $255.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,277.00 | $2,554.00 |
Number format in Barbados
Barbados uses the North American Numbering Plan: +1, a three-digit area code and a seven-digit number, such as +1 246 250 1234. The API reads the area code (246 here) to price the number as Barbados rather than the United States, so keep the full eleven digits in your list.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Barbados holds 160 characters and each part of a longer text 153. Watch for curly quotes and emoji copied from other tools: one of them moves the whole text to Unicode at 70 characters per segment, and POST /v1/estimates shows the encoding before you send.
Time zone and timing
Barbados keeps UTC-4 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Barbados is always 13:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Barbados with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BB) and the price. A delivered or failed event follows on your webhook, and a failed message is refunded.
For a list, send the same text to up to 10,000 numbers with POST /v1/batches, or a personal text per number in messages.
curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"to": "+12462501234", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'const res = await fetch("https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BULKSMSAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ to: "+12462501234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01277", country: "BB"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+12462501234", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BULKSMSAPI_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "northwind-app/1.0"},
method="POST",
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as res:
print(json.load(res)["price"]) # "0.01277"What developers send to Barbados
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Fraud alerts
Banks in Bridgetown notify customers about suspicious card transactions via SMS.
Food delivery
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Event tickets
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SMS to Barbados: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Barbados?
How many SMS to Barbados does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Barbados numbers for the API?
Should SMS in Barbados use formal or casual tone?
How does hurricane season affect SMS use?
Start sending to Barbados
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Barbados at $0.01277 per segment, from the console or with one API call.