The SMS group is used to group the address book contacts. In general two types of groups can be created, private and public.

Private – Private groups are personal groups.  Member can create any number of private groups and can group any number of contacts for a private group.

Public – Public groups can be created only if “Enable Public Group” is set to “Yes” in Global Configuration. Your website visitors can subscribe and unsubscribe to public groups.



Field Definitions:

SMS Account – Select the SMS Account name for this Group

Group Name – Give the name of the Group.

Group Description – Description of the group.  This description can be viewed in the front-end for your website visitors.

Group Image – Image for the group.  The parameters like width, height & size for this image can be defined under Global Configuration.

Auto Approve – Setting this will automatically approve the member subscription for this group.

Group Type – Defines the type of the group.

Allow Unregistered – Define whether unregistered public visitors can subscribe to this group.  Recommended settings is “No”

Notify E-mail – Setting this to yes will notify the group owner via E-mail for each subscribes & unsubscribe

Group Status – This defines the status of the group. Currently not used.  Reserved for future use

Group Category – Since this is a public group a corresponding category has to be selected.

Published – Set the group to publish or not.
Once the public group is created and a corresponding menu item is created, the front-end visitors can view the public group and they can subscribe to the group by giving their name and mobile numbers.