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Hello. Thanks for any help on this.

Can someone point me to a similar procedure that does the following:

After a record is updated:

  1. User clicks a button to send a text with information from the updated record
  2. A SMS text is sent with this information to a constant, static list of telephone numbers.

I’ve looked up several things on Youtube related to this, but they always seem to be too simple for what I’m looking for or too complex.

I do use Zapier.  I did create a trial Twilio account.  I don’t mind sending with my own phone, this will only be 4-5 texts per week to 2 or 3 people.

Just pointing me to a similar process I think I’ll be able to sort it out.

Thank you.

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.

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