Intro
Interactive SMS Poll application is an app that enables you to send SMS Poll questions to groups of people – they then respond and the app saves the results in a statistical layout. The application is built using Codeigniter and Bootstrap CSS framework. The application is deeply integrated into Twilio’s API which handles the SMS interactive communications.
Features
- Interactive Poll question sending to unlimited Grouped contacts
- CSV bulk contacts import
- Contact Group creation and storing
- Poll question profile creation and storing
- Active Poll statistics dashboard with bar chart
- Assign contact to multiple groups
- Poll opt in message
- Setup Twilio account details within app – inbuilt help section
- Excellent after sales support!
Demo
Please note that the demo has been restricted you may navigate through the app but you will not be able to send Polls out until you purchase the application.
Installing the app yourself
- 1. Simply copy all the files onto your web server
- 2. Setup the correct app base url in application/config/config.php (Optional dependent on your setup)
- 3. Add your Database settings in application/config/database.php (if you are not using appfog.com then comment out lines 51-74 and un-comment lines 77-84 then add your details).
- 4. Signup for a Twilio account and get your number, SID, and token ready
- 5. Import Database schema and add your Twilio credentials to the settings table value column.
- 6. Setup your Twilio SMS request URL in Twilio account
- 7. Launch site and login with [email protected] & 1234
- 8. Create a poll and add question and answers
Notes:
NOTE: This application is built with CodeIgniter and you will need knowledge of this framework to get things setup as some servers require settings changes etc. I will be happy to assist up to a point as I can’t possibly support all types of server setups.
FREE setup and FREE Hosting!
I use Appfog.com for the demo and other apps and find the service to be fast, reliable and most of all FREE for smaller apps. If you would like me to setup your copy of the application for FREE please contact me via Codecanyon – Please allow up to 48 hours for this FREE service.