Many of our clients set up their Chronotek accounts to get alerts when employees clock in or out, or when they are late to a scheduled job. We send these alerts from our email address to theirs, and can send them as text messages as well. Sending messages from email to text requires a cell ‘email address’. The technical term for text delivery this way is “email to SMS”. SMS stands for “Short Message Service”.
We put together a quick reference for setting up new text alert destinations for your managers and supervisors. Outside of our system, these formats work in your personal email ‘To:’ section to send email messages to someone as text messages. It can be easier, if you are already sitting at your computer, to access your email account and pop off a quick text message, rather than having to pick up your phone to type out a message. To send an email to someone as a text message, the proper format for your friend’s cell phone provider must be used.
Our phone and app-based timekeeping solution can send these alerts to multiple destinations. Separate with a semicolon (;) just like in sending through email.
Some of our most popular providers’ formats:
| Cell Provider | Cell Email Address |
| AT&T | XXXYYYZZZZ@txt.att.net |
| Boost | XXXYYYZZZZ@myboostmobile.com |
| Cricket | XXXYYYZZZZ@sms.mycricket.com |
| Metro PCS | XXXYYYZZZZ@mymetropcs.com |
| Sprint | XXXYYYZZZZ@messaging.sprintpcs.com |
| T Mobile | XXXYYYZZZZ@tmomail.net |
| Verizon | XXXYYYZZZZ@vtext.com |
| Virgin Mobile | XXXYYYZZZZ@vmobl.com |
The expanded list of Text Messaging Email Addresses:
| Cell Provider | Cell Email Address |
| ACS Alaska | XXXYYYZZZZ@msg.acsalaska.com |
| Alltel | XXXYYYZZZZ@message.alltel.com |
| Ameritech | XXXYYYZZZZ@paging.acswireless.com |
| Arch | XXXYYYZZZZ@archwireless.net |
| AT&T | XXXYYYZZZZ@txt.att.net |
| Bell Canada | XXXYYYZZZZ@txt.bellmobility.ca |
| Blue Sky Frog | XXXYYYZZZZ@blueskyfrog.com |
| Boost | XXXYYYZZZZ@myboostmobile.com |
| Carolina West | XXXYYYZZZZ@cwwsms.com |
| Cellular One | XXXYYYZZZZ@mobile.celloneusa.com |
| Cellular South | XXXYYYZZZZ@csouth1.com |
| Cincinnati Bell | XXXYYYZZZZ@gocbw.com |
| Cingular | same as AT&T |
| Claro | XXXYYYZZZZ@clarotorpedo.com.br |
| Comviq | XXXYYYZZZZ@sms.comviq.se |
| Cricket | XXXYYYZZZZ@sms.mycricket.com |
| Edge | XXXYYYZZZZ@sms.edgewireless.com |
| Einstein PCS | XXXYYYZZZZ@einsteinsms.com |
| Fido | XXXYYYZZZZ@fido.ca |
| Immix | XXXYYYZZZZ@immixmail.com |
| Metro PCS | XXXYYYZZZZ@mymetropcs.com |
| Mobile One | XXXYYYZZZZ@m1.com.sg |
| Ntelos | XXXYYYZZZZ@pcs.ntelos.com |
| Optus | XXXYYYZZZZ@optusmobile.com.au |
| Qwest | XXXYYYZZZZ@qwestmp.com |
| Rogers | XXXYYYZZZZ@pcs.rogers.com |
| Sasktel | XXXYYYZZZZ@pcs.sasktelmobility.com |
| Smart | XXXYYYZZZZ@mysmart.mymobile.ph |
| Southern Linc | XXXYYYZZZZ@page.southernlinc.com |
| Sprint | XXXYYYZZZZ@messaging.sprintpcs.com |
| SunCom | XXXYYYZZZZ@tms.suncom.com |
| Sure West | XXXYYYZZZZ@mobile.surewest.com |
| T Mobile | XXXYYYZZZZ@tmomail.net |
| TBayTel | XXXYYYZZZZ@tbayteltxt.net |
| Telenor | XXXYYYZZZZ@mobilpost.no |
| Telus | XXXYYYZZZZ@msg.telus.com |
| Tim | XXXYYYZZZZ@timnet.com |
| Unicel | XXXYYYZZZZ@utext.com |
| V Mobile CA | XXXYYYZZZZ@vmobile.ca |
| Verizon | XXXYYYZZZZ@vtext.com |
| Virgin Mobile | XXXYYYZZZZ@vmobl.com |
| Vodafone | XXXYYYZZZZ@vodafone.net |
| WellCom | XXXYYYZZZZ@sms.welcome2well.com |
***Where XXXYYYZZZZ is enter the 10 digit phone number without spaces or punctuation.
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