SMS API for Haiti: bulk SMS to +509 numbers
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
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 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."}'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: "+50934101234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01637", country: "HT"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+50934101234", "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"]) # "0.01637"What developers send to 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.
More countries in Caribbean
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?
How many SMS to Haiti does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Haiti numbers for the API?
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.