SMS API for British Virgin Islands: bulk SMS to +1 numbers
British Virgin Islands
Calling code +1
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01187
- Messages for $100
- 8,424
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to the British Virgin Islands costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01187 | $0.02374 |
| 1,000 | $11.87 | $23.74 |
| 10,000 | $118.70 | $237.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,187.00 | $2,374.00 |
Number format in British Virgin Islands
The British Virgin Islands uses the North American Numbering Plan: +1, a three-digit area code and a seven-digit number, such as +1 284 300 1234. The API reads the area code (284 here) to price the number as the British Virgin Islands 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 the British Virgin Islands 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
The British Virgin Islands keeps UTC-4 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Tortola 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 British Virgin Islands with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (VG) 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": "+12843001234", "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: "+12843001234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01187", country: "VG"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+12843001234", "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"]) # "0.01187"What developers send to the British Virgin Islands
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SMS to British Virgin Islands: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to the British Virgin Islands?
How many SMS to the British Virgin Islands does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write British Virgin Islands numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in for the British Virgin Islands?
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Start sending to The British Virgin Islands
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to the British Virgin Islands at $0.01187 per segment, from the console or with one API call.