SMSGupshup recently announced the formal launch of its Appstore, Appshup and since we have been receiving a few queries from our readers, we just passed on the questions to SMSGupshup team.
Here is a short QnA with the team on Appshup:
Qn: What is the revenue share percentage between SMSGupshup and Developers?
70-30 (70% for the developers, 30% for SMS GupShup) of what the carrier pays (payments are held until it crosses a nominal threshold, for administrative convenience)
b. Please share the operators/circles where you have the partnerships.
Pan-India: all circles/operators
c. How are you planning to market the app directory?
On SMS GupShup’s community of 27 million users
d. Any plans to go premium SMS route?
The app platform runs on a premium short code (On a one-off basis, we can offer to run apps on longcodes too. In this case, there may be additional fees for the developer)
e. Please share the API roadmap
The current feature set is fairly rich. You will see a broad variety of new apps launching on the platform over the next few weeks – including many interactive, multi-user games, built on the current platform. We intend to offer more interactivity and better reporting in the next version. We are open to developer feedback on new additions.
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Please send in your queries and we will have the SMSGupshup team respond to the same.
Documentation is quite minimal.It is not really clear where one should send a request for the outgoing SMS.Or is it that all apps are just the HTTP style request-response apps? I think if that is the case, it severely limits the utility of such a platform.I would love to send SMS alerts to my subscribers.
When Google is sharing in ratio of 80:20, why 70:30 from gupshup? Any additional value by signing up with you, which Google cannot offer…:-)
I had sent an email to request permission for an app 9 days ago to apps@smsgupshup.com. Still haven’t received a reply.What is the turnaround time?
I am student and currently using BPUTALERT which is a SMS alert service for Biju Patnaik University of Technology run on SMS GupShup platform.They are providing service to nearly 60,00 students but currently the service is too slow and SMS are delivered after 6days.
SMS Gupshup team must take steps for this
dude, i am signed up for smsgupshup. I like the stupid jokes they sms me but never ever i am going to click on a ad or use their app store. how the heck they make money.
i am at a point where i am going to block these jokes. seriously, is this working?? thoughts??
What about the revenues when running an app on longcode,bcoz carrier pays only for shortcode sms’s.
Also what will be the cost for getting a keyword in longcode ?
smsgupshup is dud, useless and vry slow.
if u post today, there is no guarantee they will deliver it tomoro, most often, msgs are not posted at all, if u have joined it, leave it.