How to send marketing SMS using One Way SMS Destination?
STEP 1: Create an One Way SMS Destination
1. Hover your mouse over Settings, and choose Channel Integration
Hover your mouse over Settings >> Choose SMS
2. Click 
to create a new Destination
to create a new Destination
3. Choose One Way SMS category
4. Fill the necessary information
General information
Destination Name: Input the name for the destination.
Description: Input description for this destination (optional).
Destination Catalog: Select My One Way SMS option.
Method: Select Send (default).
Configure fields
User name: Input the user name of your One Way SMS account.
Password: Input the password to login to your One Way SMS account.
Phone number: Input the phone number you need to send SMS message to.
At this step, users can input phone by phone, or click on 
icon, then select Add personalization to use Personalization function. A popup will show up as below:
Personalization type: Select Customer Attribute or Visitor Attribute depending on the target audience you are desire to send marketing messages.
Personalization Attribute: Select Phone
Click Insert to save the setting.
Base URL: Input the Base URL of your account.
General Setting
Frequency Capping
Frequency Capping settings allows users to limit the times an audiences receiving a marketing message.
Ignore duplicate messages for the scheduled journey
One audience just receive one message in an iteration of journey schedule
Limit frequency for the journey (3 months duration)
Limit allocation frequency to 1 audience in a journey for 3 months
(Ex: 2 times/person)
Limit frequency for destination
Limit allocation frequency to 1 audience per unit of time (hour, day, etc.)
(Ex: 3 times/month, 1 times/day)
Delivered rate
Delivered rate setting allows users to limit the number of messages sent per second for a specific Destination.
As fast as possible
The maximum number of marketing messages sent per second will depend on the system possibility.
Limit send rate {x} time(s) per second
The number of marketing messages sent per second will be set by user.
(Ex: You are creating a destination for G Suite Email, the value you set is 100. That means only 100 emails will be sent per second.)
5. Click Save to save the Destination
STEP 2: Create a Customer Journey
1. Hover your mouse over Marketing
Choose Orchestration
Or choose SMS
2. Click + button to create a new Customer Journey.
Then configure the Trigger Node
Journey schedule
Trigger Journey
Once: The journey will run only 1 time
By hour/day/week/month: The Journey will run hourly/ daily/ weekly/ monthly
Trigger time - The time Journey will start running
At a specific date & time: Choose the date and time the journey will start
Right after the journey activated: The journey will run after you click Activate
Include/ Exclude Audiences
Choose the audiences who are able/not able to go to the Journey
Click
or
to add audiences
General Settings
Limit the time an audience would receive a ticket
Unlimited frequency: The audience will receive as many ticket as the journey run
Limited frequency: The audience will receive {x} ticket per day/week/month/lifetime
3. Add Action node (optional)
4. Add and configure Destination node
Click + to add Destination node -> Choose My One Way SMS
Choose Design from scratch
Design the campaign:
Settings
Setting tab:
Campaign Name: Input the name of this campaign
Delivery Destination: Select the destination you created in STEP 1
Delivery Algorithm: Randomization (default)
Delivery Hours of the Day: Select the time of day you want to send this Email.
Compose
Variant Name: The name of the message template
Content: The content of the message. You could make your content dynamic by clicking
icon
5. Save and Activate the Journey
Click Save to save the Journey
Click Activate to start running the Journey
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