Twilio is problematic in my case, alternatives to use?

I spent all night to make twilio work for Turkish, SLovenian and Kosovo numbers but no way.
I had account there, put money bought a international number as their guidelines for Turkey.

Made the 3 twilio settings in UNA, made phone and email approved.

But no it is not working. In UNA just saying that an error occurred contact to siteadmin.
I wrote to their support, they are just sending me the links that I already read.
amazons SNS price per sms to Turkey is 0.00384 USD/sms


gatewayapi . com  is 0.007 USD/sms very easy and direct to use
(no need to buy phone numbers etc)


Twilio 0.0295 USD / sms
 (+ you neeed to buy a phone number 1-12 USD month and pay for the real support just to start using their system + you need to deposit 20 USD to their system they are routing you to charge you when you have 10 usd in your account, you never use this 10 USD!
 10 USD from thousands of customers who will never use it, very tricky )

Alex can we use an other provider? For example this gatewayapi is very straight forward.
Which files do I need to modify?

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    • Interesting your comparison! File depends on service provider API, not so simple to transform I think ...

      • Baloo I dont guess that, it is this complex...

        let me see during tonight's challenge :)))

        • Go again challenge for doctor geek, I wait for you here for solution before 23 h 30 ;-) Run fast, here it is an hour less than at home I think :-)))

          • Ok all the work is done through the BxDolTwilio.php class in inc directory. 

            The sms is sent from in side this file.

             I was able to send sms through gatewayapi . com by using only 'to' and message (code) variables in the class like with the api token of gateway api. 

            With my hack in 2 hours, it works but I didnt like the quality. And I dont want to reserve more time  for this cause i have big things to do and candidate members are waiting.

            (But the code UNA wrote is very clean and well structured, it seems like they even prevented to happen multiple instances of the send sms event. )

            We may ask UNA to implement a plugin also for gatewayapi to benefit from their good price level. (They can do it as power application also.) It will not take their time that much. I guess in the same day they may finish :)
            By the way today in the afternoon at last Twilio answered saying that for Turkiye and some other countries it is needed to pre-register sender id .
            Now i am waiting to learn it's cost and procedures.

            • Thank you, Cem. We will evaluate the gatewayapi. Also, note that you may consider creating your own UNA app and putting out to the Marketplace. We would review for the code quality and would then publish it.

              • That will be very nice Andrew if UNA team may produce the plugin for gatewayapi. 

                As I see their support is very responsive (during working hours :)) ), prices are significantly cheaper then of Twilio.
                Today I wrote them, they called me on phone, I explained the need about UNA. They are interested, so for any support to develop the plugin they may provide.
                For myself to produce applications... well I don`t consider myself in that level. I learned some programming languages 15 years ago and things changed for example in PHP a lot since that time. Also I am working as an active doctor in my own clinic. So my time is normally limited. 

                But lets see I have good ideas about UNA. 

                But one important thing I learned in life is to go step by step :)

                • Thank you Cem Bagdatli for your findings and the comparison, we'll consider adding it in future versions:

                  https://github.com/unaio/una/issues/1608

                  • Thanks Alex will be good for us :)

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