SMS API for North Macedonia: bulk SMS to +389 numbers
North Macedonia
Calling code +389
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00707
- Messages for $100
- 14,144
- Local language
- Macedonian and Albanian
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to North Macedonia costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00707 | $0.01414 |
| 1,000 | $7.07 | $14.14 |
| 10,000 | $70.70 | $141.40 |
| 100,000 | $707.00 | $1,414.00 |
Number format in North Macedonia
Mobile numbers in North Macedonia have 8 digits after +389. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (072 345 678); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +389 72 345 678.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Cyrillic is always Unicode, so a message to North Macedonia written in Macedonian carries 70 characters in one segment and 67 in each part of a longer one. Codes and alerts written in English or plain Latin letters fit 160 characters, which halves the cost of a long notice.
Time zone and timing
North Macedonia changes its clocks: Skopje is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Skopje 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 North Macedonia with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (MK) 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": "+38972345678", "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: "+38972345678", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00707", country: "MK"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+38972345678", "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"]) # "0.00707"What developers send to North Macedonia
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SMS to North Macedonia: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to North Macedonia?
How many SMS to North Macedonia does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write North Macedonia numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in for North Macedonia?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic in North Macedonia?
Start sending to North Macedonia
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to North Macedonia at $0.00707 per segment, from the console or with one API call.