Its a good idea to get acquainted with some of the terms you will encounter throughout the site

Phonebook - Here you will see your friends, family, colleagues, clients. All you need is their name and number. Here you can add the members to groups, assign them administrator rights, etc. You will also see the list of members in your groups but are not in your phonebook. You will not be able to see the mobile number or edit details of such members. To to so, you will have to add them in your phonebook. This is because there could be members who want to receive messages from a group owner but do not want to disclose their mobile number to them.

Groups - Here is where you will set the group details like if or not the group is free, paid (charge receivers) or paying (pay receivers) , private (viewable only to members) or public (viewable to all) , accept advertisements or not, members have a right to message to the group or not, etc

Profile - Here is where you will set your personal information like username, password, personal details, upload a photo, You can choose to receive messages for a fee from any advertiser, add multiple mobile phones to your same account, etc

Private/Public - Private Profile means no one except your members can search for or see your profile. Private group means no one except your group members can search for or see your group. You could have a private profile and a public group or a public profile and a private group

Account - Here is where you will see the list of all the money transactions. Your income, expenses, deposits and withdrawals

Send Money - You can use this to transfer money from your account to any mobile number, phonebook member or group

Inbox - Here you will see the list of SMS you have received

Sent - Here you will see the list of SMS you have sent

Compose - You can use this to send a SMS to any mobile number, phonebook member or group (your own and also where you are an administrator or groups where members can message each other). You can also send money, schedule the same message to be sent repeatedly over a period and choose an advertiser to sponsor your message and send it for free

Reach Members - Here you will be able to search for all members who are willing to receive advertisements from you for a fee. You can also search for classifieds listed by various members (Note : In case you are reaching members who have posted a classified, they will not be paid any fees to receive the message as you are responding to a message posted by them). Recommended Price - Rs.0.30 per sms

Advt to Groups - Here you can select the groups which are ready to receive advertisements for a fee. You can choose the groups based on the asking price and the rating, set your message and send a request to the group owner. If he chooses to insert your advertisement, your account will get deducted and his account will get credited with the total advertisement cost. Recommended Price - Rs.0.60 per sms

Sponsor SMS - You can choose to sponsor SMS sent by other people. Your advertisement will be inserted in the message sent by them to their friends, family, etc. .Recommended Price - Rs.0.60 per sms

Classifieds - You can browse classifieds here, send a message to the advertiser, contact all similar advertisers at one go or post a new classified yourself

Auto Alert - You can track all classifieds listed on SMSZone automatically. When any classified matching your interest gets listed, an SMS can be sent to you and the advertiser on your behalf automatically, so that you don't miss any opportunities.

Tollfree SMS - You can use this to enhance your website by asking visitors to send you a SMS directly from your website. Just insert the given code to your webpage and you are ready to receive messages from your customers without disclosing your mobile number to them and without they having to pay anything. Your account gets debited for every SMS you recieve.

Mobile & Email Commands - You can use this to interact with SMSZone via your mobile phone or via email without having to login to the website to perform your tasks. You can create a group, add members to the group, post a message, send money to people, send request for withdrawing money or recharge your account.

Security Seal - You can secure your brand name from piracy by affixing a unique code sticker on your product. When your customers sends this code to us, we can check if the code is valid or not, thus assuring your customer of the authenticity of the product

Shortcode - You can get your company a shortcode where your customers can send you messages and you can perform some action based on the message received and send a personalized message back to your customer based on the message he sent.