For Single-Part SMS
Want to send one short and simple message through the SMS sendout feature? Take a look at and keep in mind the information below.
Basic Character
When creating your SMS sendouts, you can freely use the below basic characters. One SMS consisting of only Basic Characters has a character limit of: 160.
Alphabets & Letters
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Ä Ö Ñ Ü ä ö ñ ü à
é è ù ì ò
Ç Ø ø Å å Δ _ Φ Γ Λ Ω Π Ψ Σ Θ Ξ Æ æ ß É
Numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Symbols and Others
€ @ £ $ ¥ ¤ ! # % & ( ) * + – , . / : ; < = > ? ¡ § ¿ ” ‘
CR LF SP ESC \n \r
Extended Characters – Extended characters are counted as two basic characters.
| ^ { } [ ] ~ \
Non-Basic Character
If you want to include other characters in your SMS except for the Basic characters above, the character limit for one SMS is reduced to: 70.
Non-basic characters include:
- Special characters like: ‘ and “
- Emojis: 🤓🤞📈
- Characters from foreign languages: 中國語한국È
and other characters exclusively used for other languages.
For Multi-part SMS
If your SMS exceeds 160 character counts, it will be divided into multiple parts due to the count limit mentioned above. The number of SMS parts divided depends on the aggregate character count of your SMS. To the recipient, it looks like one long message.
* Even a multi-part message cannot exceed 2000 characters.
Basic Character
If you use only basic characters when creating your SMS sendouts, the relationship between entire message counts and numbers of divided SMS parts follows this chart below.
Non-Basic Character
If you want to include non-basic characters when creating your SMS sendouts, the relationship between entire message counts and numbers of divided SMS parts follows this chart below.