I’m looking for an extension that would allow me to receive SMS to a specific number, and have that populate field (or Create Record) in a base.
Reading up on Twilio and Whippy and some others, and it looks like there are plenty of options for sending SMS, but can’t find anything there about receiving one. Any insights on what’s available or maybe I missed something with the capability of those tools.
+35No matter which text messaging service you decide to use, you can receive your text messages into Airtable by using Make’s automations and integrations.
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.
In general, I do not recommend Twilio for text messaging, as it is EXTREMELY overpriced and it is EXTREMELY complicated to setup.
There are much better, much easier, much simpler, and much cheaper SMS providers than Twilio — and all of them can be automated using Make.
For example, there is MessageBird and TextMagic and SimpleTexting.
SimpleTexting is my current favorite, and I give a demonstration on Airtable and SimpleTexting on this Airtable podcast episode:
I also give a demonstration on Airtable and Twilio here, but as I mentioned above, I do not recommend Twilio:
Hope this helps!
If you have a budget and you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with this or anything else that is Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld
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