Rubi Works uses your Twilio account and service for message delivery - the account is yours and all Twilio costs are your responsibility.

Sample Calculation

Please refer to pricing links above for up-to-date pricing for below calculations. Pricing in the sample scenario may be out of date. 

  1. Cost to maintain Twilio number number - $1 or $2 (888 numbers) per month for each phone number
  2. Cost per message - US and CA is $0.0075 per segment (160 characters) + carrier fees (variable). It ends up being around $0.01 per segment.
      3. We limit text message length to 2 segments so that carriers do not block it as spam.

SPARKLES MODULE

We are making an assumption of 100 visits per day and a single Sparkles configuration - let's say visit reminder. 

100 visits / day

365 days / year

1 segment per message (less than 160 characters) *

$ 0.01 per message = 100 * 365 * 1 * 0.01 = $365.00 per year for 100 visits a day notifying 100 employees every day about a visit coming up

  • Add another reminder - if you have a 24 hour in advance, then an 1 hour in advance - double up the cost.
  • Add a late clock in alert - assuming that 10% of employees do not clock in on time, add another 10% based on $365.00

It's all driven by the number of visits per day / month / year that the agency has and the number of sparkles configured to notify someone about those visits.

SHOUT MODULE

For the Shout module (free form text message blast) it depends on how many recipients you are sending to, how often, and how many segments per message. 

Breakdown calc:
  • Recipients per blast - 200
  • Segments per message - 2 (200 characters is 2 segments)
  • Messages per day - 1
  • Cost per segment - $0.01
  • Cost - 200 x 2 x 1 x $0.01 = $4 a day
  • $1460 per year
If you cut the message to 1 segment (160 characters) it would be half of that, for example:
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