Opening A Clickatell Account

Fortunately, Clickatell will give you 10 free credits so you can test that it works before paying any money. If it works and you're happy, you then purchase some SMS credits from them.

Following these links will show you the coverage and prices of Clickatell.  Then follow these instructions to open an account:

1. Follow this link to start the registeration.
2. Choose the "Clickatell Central" option.
3. Fill in your details (which includes choosing a username and password), and click the "Continue" button.
4. Follow their directions to verify your email address and phone number.
5. During the verification process you will find out your Client ID. Note that down.
6. You should now be logged in to your Clickatell account. But there's more to do...
7. Click the "Manage my Products" link (at the top, just below the header).
8. Click the "HTTP/S" link.
9. Fill in the "Description" field. This can be anything you like, e.g. "My HTTP/S connection". Leave all the checkboxes empty.
10. Click the "Submit" button.
11. Note the "API ID" of your connection.

Now you are all set to go. When you enter the SMS details into ATM, you will need to type in your Clickatell username and password, and the API ID.

Here are a couple of extra points of interest:

• If you're still looking at the Clickatell account page, you can see your Client ID in the header. Note that down if you didn't before. You'll need to enter this along with your username, next time you want to login to the Clickatell site.
• Also in the header is an "Buy SMS Credits" link. But you should have been given 10 free credits, and before buying any more credits, you should use those 10 free ones to test that ATM can actually send SMS to your phone through Clickatell.
• While using the free credits, the actual text sent by ATM will not show on your phone. Instead you'll just get a "Clickatell test message". But at least you'll be able to determine that text messages can be sent to your phone by ATM, and approximately how quickly they turn up.

If everything works fine, then use the "Buy SMS Credits" link mentioned above to purchase SMS credits from them.

Thinking Stuff is an affiliate of Clickatell, and we receive 10% of the money you pay to them. We didn't choose Clickatell because of the money. In fact at first we decided to use Clickatell, and then thought that if if we're sending business their way anyway, we might as well join their affiliate program and reap the rewards on offer. If only all the companies we use had similar offers... *sigh* :-)

Note that we stop receiving commissions 6 months after you join up, so if you were a real friend, you'd create a new account every 6 months using the links here :-)