Click Button to Send SMS to Multiple Numbers of current record

I would not personally recommend Twilio nor Zapier for this.

Twilio is very overpriced, it is very complicated to setup, and their tech support is very bad. Meanwhile, Zapier is too pricey for such an underpowered platform.

Make is INFINITELY more powerful & customizable than Zapier, yet it is SIGNIFICANTLY CHEAPER than Zapier. I wrote an entire post here comparing Make vs. Zapier. 

Instead of Twilio, there is MessageBird, TextMagic, SimpleTexting, and much more.

SimpleTexting is my current #1 favorite, and I give a demonstration on Airtable and SimpleTexting on this Airtable podcast episode.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable. 

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable arrays in Make.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Hm, yeah seems like you could do it with a Repeating Group like so, and I’ve set it up here for you to check out.  The idea is to trigger the automation when a checkbox is ticked, look for the people you want to send the message to, then use a repeating group on that list:

Hello,

The action is to send a text message using your Twilio account. You'll set up the message to pull the dailypay  info you need from the updated record and send it to your static list of numbers. you've already got a trial Twilio account, you're halfway there. This setup is a classic example of what Zapier was made for and should work perfectly for what you're describing.

You can use Zapier to watch for a record update (like a checkbox or button click), then send a text via Twilio to your fixed list of phone numbers. Set it up once, and it'll run automatically each time.

I handled this by using a script action in the automation that loops through the list of phone numbers and sends an SMS to each one individually using a simple array and forEach loop.

Thanks for all advice. I had to table this for a bit.  I’m back on it.

I ended up creating a trial Twilio account. Set it all up.  I’m at a point where I’m testing it.  AirTable thinks the test is working, but I never get the text.  I am pretty sure the Twilio account is registered properly.

Shouldn’t I be getting the text, even on a test?  Screenshots attached.

It looks like you set it up correctly, and yes, you should probably be receiving texts from a trial Twilio account, but you might need to ask Twilio why it’s not working.

You may also want to check your outbound log in Twilio to see if was actually sent on their end. There might also be an error message in the Twilio log that could give you more insight.

BTW, I’ve been working with text messages in Airtable for years with many different clients of mine, and Twilio ended up giving me so much trouble over the years that I now use Make’s SimpleTexting integrations as my main SMS platform.

I give a demonstration on Airtable and SimpleTexting on this Airtable podcast episode.

In addition to SimpleTexting, there are a few other great SMS apps that Make natively supports too, such as MessageBird, TextMagic, and more.

I’ve found all of these to be much easier and much more reliable than Twilio. They’re cheaper, too! And their tech support is better than Twilio as well.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Hm, what happens when you attempt to send the SMS via Twilio directly instead of via the Airtable automation?