Send SMS to Bangladesh from anywhere in the world

GotiSMS is a specialist: it delivers SMS to Bangladesh only. That focus is useful if you are a company outside Bangladesh with customers, users or staff there. Instead of a global provider that treats Bangladesh as one route among hundreds, you get local routes on every operator, local sender IDs, and an understanding of the country's rules on content and timing.

Your business can be located anywhere. You sign up online, top up your wallet, and send through the dashboard or the API. Recipients receive the message like any other local SMS.

If you need to send to other countries as well, you would use GotiSMS for Bangladesh alongside another provider for the rest.

• Foreign companies with Bangladeshi customers that need order updates, account alerts and support messages to reach local phones.
• Diaspora-owned businesses in the UK, the Middle East, North America, Malaysia and elsewhere serving families back home.
• Travel agencies and airlines sending booking confirmations, flight changes and check-in reminders to passengers in Bangladesh.
• Remittance and fintech services sending transaction notices and one-time passwords to recipients in Bangladesh.
• E-commerce platforms that ship into Bangladesh and need delivery and cash-on-delivery updates.
• SaaS and app companies with Bangladeshi users who need sign-up verification and login codes.

For one-time passwords specifically, see our OTP SMS page.

The GotiSMS SMS API is a REST/JSON interface you can call from servers in any region. Authentication is a Bearer API key, and the optional IP allow-list lets you restrict each key to your own infrastructure, wherever it is hosted.

Phone numbers can be sent in local format (01712345678) or international format (8801712345678 or +8801712345678), which is convenient if your system already stores numbers in E.164.

curl -X POST https://api.gotisms.com/api/messages/send \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: booking-88213-confirm" \
  -d '{"recipients":["+8801712345678"],"senderId":"YourBrand","message":"Your booking 88213 is confirmed.","category":"transactional"}'

Our tutorial on sending SMS to Bangladesh from abroad covers setup in more detail.

Recipients in Bangladesh trust messages that look local and familiar. You have two options:

• Masking sender ID: your brand name (up to 11 letters) as the sender. Each sender ID must be approved before use, and approval may require details showing the name belongs to your business. See masking SMS.
• Non-masking sender: a regular number that works on every network. Every account gets one by default, so you can start immediately.

Bangladesh also separates traffic by type. Transactional and OTP messages can be sent at any time. Promotional messages can only be sent between 09:00 and 21:00 Bangladesh time (UTC+6), and the exact text of each campaign is approved by the operators first. If your team works in another time zone, schedule promotions in Bangladesh time, not your local time.

Many recipients in Bangladesh read English comfortably, but a message in Bangla often feels more personal and is easier for a wider audience, including older family members.

Keep the cost difference in mind:

• English (GSM-7): 160 characters per single SMS, 153 per part for longer messages.
• Bangla (Unicode): 70 characters per single SMS, 67 per part.

Billing is per part, so a Bangla message usually needs to be shorter to stay in one SMS. One emoji also switches a message to Unicode. If you are translating content, ask a native speaker to review it; machine translation of Bangla can read awkwardly. Our guide to Bangla Unicode limits has practical examples.

GotiSMS accounts use a prepaid wallet in Bangladeshi Taka (BDT). Each SMS part is deducted from your balance as you send.

Within Bangladesh, the wallet can be topped up with bKash online, or by bank transfer, cash or manual Send Money with proof that our staff verify. If you are paying from outside Bangladesh, email support@gotisms.com before your first top-up and we will help you find a suitable way to fund your account.

Indicative prices start from ৳0.18–0.25 per non-masking SMS and ৳0.40–0.60 per masking SMS; enterprise and API volumes are priced individually. See pricing, or contact us to discuss your volume.