SMS API for US Virgin Islands: bulk SMS to +1 numbers
US Virgin Islands
Calling code +1
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00707
- Messages for $100
- 14,144
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to the US Virgin Islands 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 US Virgin Islands
The US Virgin Islands uses the North American Numbering Plan: +1, a three-digit area code and a seven-digit number, such as +1 340 642 1234. The API reads the area code (340 here) to price the number as the US Virgin Islands rather than the United States, so keep the full eleven digits in your list.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to the US Virgin Islands holds 160 characters and each part of a longer text 153. Watch for curly quotes and emoji copied from other tools: one of them moves the whole text to Unicode at 70 characters per segment, and POST /v1/estimates shows the encoding before you send.
Time zone and timing
The US Virgin Islands keeps UTC-4 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in St Thomas is always 13:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to US Virgin Islands with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (VI) 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": "+13406421234", "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: "+13406421234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00707", country: "VI"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+13406421234", "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 the US Virgin Islands
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SMS to US Virgin Islands: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to the US Virgin Islands?
How many SMS to the US Virgin Islands does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write US Virgin Islands numbers for the API?
What language should SMS be in?
How to reach tourists effectively?
Start sending to The US Virgin Islands
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to the US Virgin Islands at $0.00707 per segment, from the console or with one API call.