SMS API for Haiti: bulk SMS to +509 numbers

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, with Port-au-Prince as its capital and largest city and a large community abroad that sends money home. Organizations like banks, healthcare providers, and delivery services use SMS to communicate with users. Messages are triggered by events such as payment confirmations, appointment reminders, and package tracking updates. SMS is preferred because it reaches everyone, including those in rural areas like Cap-Haïtien or Jacmel, where internet access is limited.

Haiti

Calling code +509

Per SMS segment
$0.01637
Messages for $100
6,108
Local language
French
Encoding
GSM-7 or Unicode

What a bulk SMS send to Haiti costs

Every message is priced at $0.01637 per segment to Haiti. 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$0.01637$0.03274
1,000$16.37$32.74
10,000$163.70$327.40
100,000$1,637.00$3,274.00

Number format in Haiti

Mobile numbers in Haiti have 8 digits after +509 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 34 10 1234 becomes +509 34 10 1234 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

Haiti changes its clocks: Port-au-Prince is on UTC-5 in January and UTC-4 in July. 09:00 in Port-au-Prince is 14:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example -05:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.

Send to Haiti with one request

The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (HT) 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": "+50934101234", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'

What developers send to Haiti

Common integrations that call the SMS API for recipients in Haiti.

Payment alerts

Banks in Port-au-Prince or Gonaïves send SMS notifications to confirm transactions or low account balances.

Health reminders

Clinics in Les Cayes or Jérémie send SMS reminders for vaccination appointments or prescription refills.

Delivery updates

Courier services notify customers in Pétion-Ville or Saint-Marc when their packages are dispatched or delivered.

Event confirmations

Event organizers in Cap-Haïtien or Jacmel send SMS confirmations for festival tickets or cultural events.

SMS to Haiti: questions

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

How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Haiti?

Each message segment to Haiti costs $0.01637. A plain text of up to 160 characters is one segment, so 1,000 one-segment messages cost $16.37 and 10,000 cost $163.70. Failed messages are refunded to the balance.

How many SMS to Haiti does a $100 top-up send?

$100 covers about 6,108 one-segment messages to Haiti at $0.01637 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 Haiti numbers for the API?

Send them in international format with the plus sign: +509 34 10 1234 becomes "+50934101234" 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.

Start sending to Haiti

Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Haiti at $0.01637 per segment, from the console or with one API call.

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