SMS API for Croatia: bulk SMS to +385 numbers
Croatia
Calling code +385
- Per SMS segment
- $0.02037
- Messages for $100
- 4,909
- Local language
- Croatian
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Croatia costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.02037 | $0.04074 |
| 1,000 | $20.37 | $40.74 |
| 10,000 | $203.70 | $407.40 |
| 100,000 | $2,037.00 | $4,074.00 |
Number format in Croatia
Mobile numbers in Croatia have 9 digits after +385. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (092 123 4567); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +385 92 123 4567.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Croatian fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use č, ć, đ, š and ž: 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
Croatia changes its clocks: Zagreb is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Zagreb 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 Croatia with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (HR) 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": "+385921234567", "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: "+385921234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.02037", country: "HR"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+385921234567", "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"]) # "0.02037"What developers send to Croatia
Booking confirmations
Travel agencies in Split or Zadar send SMS confirmations for hotel reservations or ferry tickets to the islands.
Payment receipts
Online stores in Zagreb or Rijeka notify customers via SMS when their payments are processed successfully.
Delivery alerts
Courier services inform customers in Osijek or Pula when their orders are out for delivery or delayed.
Event reminders
Festival organizers in Dubrovnik or Šibenik send SMS reminders for concert tickets or event schedules.
More countries in Southern Europe
SMS to Croatia: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Croatia?
How many SMS to Croatia does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Croatia numbers for the API?
Start sending to Croatia
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Croatia at $0.02037 per segment, from the console or with one API call.