Aureus Desk · SMS API to Cameroon
SMS for your codes, your confirmations, your reminders and your alerts.
A simple API to reach your MTN and Orange customers, wherever your business is based. You pay in FCFA, with no subscription, and you track every SMS until it is delivered.
- SMSAvailable
- Customer supportComing soon
Examples of SMS sent with the Aureus Desk API
SMS APIAvailable
One API call, your customer informed.
Send the number and the text with your key: the SMS goes to your customer and its status comes back to you until delivery. Accented letters are adapted to the SMS alphabet so they display on every phone, and a message over 160 characters can go out as 2 SMS, always in order.
- MTN and Orange
- Scheduled sending
- Delivery tracking
- Message in 2 SMS
- Payment in FCFA
POST /v1/sms/messages
Authorization: Bearer adk_sms_…
Idempotency-Key: commande-4821
{
"to": "699123456",
"text": "Votre code est 482913",
"sensitive": true
}What is included
Every SMS, tracked all the way.
No subscription and no fixed fees: you buy credits (1 credit = 1 FCFA) and each SMS uses the price of its destination country. Purchased credits never expire.
Never charged twice
Connection dropped while sending? Send the same request again with its idempotency key: the SMS goes out only once. Up to two active API keys, revocable at any time.
MTN and Orange
Mobile numbers in Cameroon on MTN and Orange. Camtel and Nextel numbers are not served today: the API flags them in its response.
Status at every step
Queued, sent, then delivered or failed with the reason. An SMS refused before sending is credited back automatically.
Scheduled sending
Schedule a reminder up to 30 days ahead. Changed your mind? Cancel before it leaves and the credits come back.
Codes never kept
Mark a login code as sensitive: its text is erased as soon as it is sent and is kept nowhere.
Your sender name
A shared sender once your identity is verified. A business can have its own name approved (2 to 11 characters) to be recognised from the notification.
Pricing
A price per SMS that drops with volume.
The whole top-up is counted at the price of the tier reached. Net prices in FCFA, no VAT, for an SMS to Cameroon. Purchased credits never expire.
An SMS is 160 characters. Longer? It goes out as 2 SMS (50 FCFA at the base rate), the second part only after the first one is delivered.
Top up from 10,000 FCFA, any amount you choose.
During the pilot, request your top-up from the account area and pay by MTN Mobile Money or Orange Money: credits arrive once payment is received. Based abroad? Contact us
| Volume (SMS) | Price per SMS |
|---|---|
| 100 – 500 | 25 FCFA |
| 501 – 1,000 | 24 FCFA |
| 1,001 – 5,000 | 23 FCFA |
| 5,001 – 10,000 | 22 FCFA |
| 10,001 – 50,000 | 21 FCFA |
| 50,001 – 100,000 | 20 FCFA |
| Over 100,000 | On quote |
Customer supportComing soon
Your customers' support, in one place.
WhatsApp, e-mail and your website chat in a single inbox: every request becomes a numbered case, tracked until it is resolved, with an alert before your response times are missed.
Open today: SMS. Customer support comes next, in the same account.
WhatsApp
Customers write where they already are.
E-mail
Messages land in the same inbox.
Chat
A chat bubble on your website.
Deadlines
An alert before a deadline is missed.
Ready to send your first SMS?
Open your account with your Aureus Prime sign-in, then send yourself a test SMS on your own number. To write to your customers, have your identity (individual) or your business (organisation) verified.