SMS API for Seychelles: bulk SMS to +248 numbers
Seychelles
Calling code +248
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01037
- Messages for $100
- 9,643
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to the Seychelles costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01037 | $0.02074 |
| 1,000 | $10.37 | $20.74 |
| 10,000 | $103.70 | $207.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,037.00 | $2,074.00 |
Number format in Seychelles
Mobile numbers in the Seychelles have 7 digits after +248 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 2 510 123 becomes +248 2 510 123 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
The Seychelles keeps UTC+4 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Mahe is always 05:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Seychelles with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (SC) 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": "+2482510123", "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: "+2482510123", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01037", country: "SC"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+2482510123", "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"]) # "0.01037"What developers send to the Seychelles
Booking confirmations
Tourists in Victoria receive SMS confirmations for their hotel reservations and check-in details.
Flight updates
Travelers in Seychelles get SMS notifications about flight changes or cancellations for their trips.
Tour reminders
Visitors to Seychelles receive SMS reminders about their scheduled island tours and meeting points.
Fishing alerts
Fishermen in Seychelles get SMS updates about weather conditions and fishing opportunities.
More countries in East and Southern Africa
SMS to Seychelles: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to the Seychelles?
How many SMS to the Seychelles does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Seychelles numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in for Seychelles?
How can SMS reach remote islands in Seychelles?
Start sending to The Seychelles
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to the Seychelles at $0.01037 per segment, from the console or with one API call.