At the top right of the screen, tap on your name, Settings in the menu, and SMS on the settings page.
Before you can send an SMS through UCare, you’ll need to ask for the SMS service to be enabled. We also need to register your church before you can send an SMS. Please keep in mind that sending SMS messages does incur a cost.
You can register for a named Sender ID (e.g., MyChurch); this will make it easy for people to recognise where a message is from, though they won’t be able to reply to messages. If you have a Clickatell Americas account, then this will be the number that was assigned to you when you registered for the service.
Note: Named Sender IDs are available in many countries, but not all, such as the USA and Canada. You typically need to prove that you have the legal right to use that Sender ID, e.g., by providing government registration details for your church name.
Note: You can increase the max length of SMS messages, but as the size increases, so does the price of sending the messages.
Note: The SMS report button is at the top right of this page. Clicking the button will allow you to download a summary of who is sending SMS messages and how many. Many churches use this to assign costs to different department budgets.
Tip: If you are using the UCare app on your phone, you can send SMS messages using your phone credit instead of using our delivery service. If you have unlimited SMS on your phone plan, SMS won’t cost you anything.