I've recently made a food ecommerce based website in PHP. I've included online ordering and I'll be manually attending to orders instantly. So I need to receive a notification on one or more mobiles/emails/any other way so that one of us can instantly confirm and deliver the order. How should I go about it? What gateways are present for this kind of job? I'm willing to shell out a certain amount of money for such a service.
Thanks!!
You can use this service http://html.mobily.ws/English/Solutions/Developers/PHPSMS.html
Example included.. It will cost you 15$ for 500 SMS.
Here are a few paid SMS APIs:
Pricing for all is from 1 cent to 2 cents per message. Nexmo (as far as I know), is the only SMS provider to publish quality of delivery rates, so you can see how well messages are delivered to the specific networks you'll be using (DLR rate is the important rate).
Here are a few paid email APIs:
All three allow both sending and * receiving* email through the API (similar to how the above SMS APIs work), meaning you could easily support email and SMS side by side. Also, parsing incoming email is painful to do manually, so if you're considering allowing a reply to take some action on the order, that will make it easy.
Pricing for all varies, but it's pretty inexpensive across the board.
Disclaimer, I do developer evangelism part time at Nexmo.