SMS API for Bosnia and Herzegovina: bulk SMS to +387 numbers

Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Balkans, has an economy focused on manufacturing, mining, and tourism. Telecommunications providers, travel agencies, and utility companies send SMS for service notifications. Messages are triggered by bill reminders, tour booking changes, and mobile top-up confirmations. SMS works well here as it reaches all mobile users, including older populations in cities like Sarajevo and rural areas.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Calling code +387

Per SMS segment
$0.01387
Messages for $100
7,209
Local language
Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian
Encoding
GSM-7 or Unicode

What a bulk SMS send to Bosnia and Herzegovina costs

Every message is priced at $0.01387 per segment to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Texts over 160 GSM-7 or 70 Unicode characters are split into segments, so a two-segment text costs twice as much.
Messages1 segment2 segments
1$0.01387$0.02774
1,000$13.87$27.74
10,000$138.70$277.40
100,000$1,387.00$2,774.00

Number format in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mobile numbers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have 8 digits after +387. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (061 123 456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +387 61 123 456.

Alphabet and segments

Texts in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian (Latin and Cyrillic) fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use č, ć, đ, š and ž, and Cyrillic text,: those letters are outside GSM-7 and turn the message into Unicode at 70 characters per segment (67 per part). For short alerts, write them without those letters to keep one segment; for longer texts, the console names each letter that changed the encoding.

Time zone and timing

Bosnia and Herzegovina changes its clocks: Sarajevo is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Sarajevo is 08:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +01:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.

Send to Bosnia and Herzegovina with one request

The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BA) 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": "+38761123456", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'

What developers send to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Common integrations that call the SMS API for recipients in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Utility bills

Electric companies in Sarajevo notify customers about payment deadlines and outage schedules via SMS.

Tour bookings

Travel agencies in Mostar confirm day trip details to visitors exploring the Dinaric Alps.

Mobile top-ups

Providers send recharge confirmations and bonus data offers to subscribers nationwide.

Job alerts

Factories in Tuzla notify workers about shift changes through text messages.

SMS to Bosnia and Herzegovina: questions

More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.

How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Each message segment to Bosnia and Herzegovina costs $0.01387. A plain text of up to 160 characters is one segment, so 1,000 one-segment messages cost $13.87 and 10,000 cost $138.70. Failed messages are refunded to the balance.

How many SMS to Bosnia and Herzegovina does a $100 top-up send?

$100 covers about 7,209 one-segment messages to Bosnia and Herzegovina at $0.01387 each. The first top-up adds a bonus on top, which raises that number. The balance is shared by every country, so the same top-up also pays for messages anywhere else on the list.

How do I write Bosnia and Herzegovina numbers for the API?

Send them in international format with the plus sign: +387 61 123 456 becomes "+38761123456" in the to field. The API also accepts spaces, dashes and a 00 prefix and cleans them, and numbers that cannot be read are listed in set_aside instead of being charged.

Which languages work best for Bosnian SMS?

Bosnian is understood nationwide, with Serbian and Croatian also used. English works for tourist areas.

When do SMS volumes peak in Bosnia?

Winter sees more utility notifications, while summer increases travel-related messages along the Adriatic coast.

Start sending to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Bosnia and Herzegovina at $0.01387 per segment, from the console or with one API call.

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