SMS API for French Polynesia: bulk SMS to +689 numbers
French Polynesia
Calling code +689
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01847
- Messages for $100
- 5,414
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to French Polynesia costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01847 | $0.03694 |
| 1,000 | $18.47 | $36.94 |
| 10,000 | $184.70 | $369.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,847.00 | $3,694.00 |
Number format in French Polynesia
Mobile numbers in French Polynesia have 8 digits after +689 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 87 12 34 56 becomes +689 87 12 34 56 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in French fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use â, ê, î, ô, û, ç, ë and ï: 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
French Polynesia spans several time zones, from UTC-10 in Tahiti to UTC-9 in Gambier (January offsets). A send_at of 19:00 UTC lands at 09:00 in Tahiti in January; for a nationwide reminder, split the list by region and give each batch its own send_at.
Send to French Polynesia with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (PF) 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": "+68987123456", "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: "+68987123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01847", country: "PF"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+68987123456", "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"]) # "0.01847"What developers send to French Polynesia
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SMS to French Polynesia: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
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How many SMS to French Polynesia does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write French Polynesia numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in for French Polynesia?
How can SMS reach visitors in French Polynesia?
Start sending to French Polynesia
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to French Polynesia at $0.01847 per segment, from the console or with one API call.