smspostam

About

smspostam is a business SMS platform for Nigerian companies that need reliable delivery, approved sender IDs and clear reporting.

smspostam is operated by PostAm Swift Networks Ltd, a Nigerian company. We're a small team building infrastructure we wish we'd had when we were running SMS for businesses ourselves. This page explains what we thought was wrong with the market, what we're doing differently, and what exists today versus what we still have to build.

The problem

What's wrong with Nigerian business SMS today.

The SMS tools available to Nigerian businesses mostly solve the narrow problem of "move a text message from A to B." They don't solve the surrounding operator problems — the ones that actually waste your week.

Confusing pricing

Rates buried in PDFs, inconsistent fees depending on the segment count, and no way to estimate a campaign before sending.

Unreliable sender IDs

Requests submitted via support tickets. Status tracked in email threads. Rejection reasons relayed third-hand or not at all.

Unclear delivery

A single percentage dashboard, no per-recipient breakdown, no failure reasons. A customer complaint and nowhere to look.

Fake promises

"99.9% delivery" on landing pages with no supporting detail. "Instant delivery" without a definition of instant.

Poor wallet history

Top-ups and spends in separate views that don't reconcile. Silent debits. No downloadable invoice for accounting.

Too many provider accounts

Customers end up juggling an account with the SMS reseller, another with the underlying aggregator, and a third for sender-ID admin.

Why we built smspostam

We wanted something simpler.

Before this, we spent a lot of time helping operators — schools, estates, logistics companies, clinics — wrangle SMS as part of their day-to-day. None of them had SMS as their primary product. All of them needed it to work. And yet almost everyone was paying too much for too little visibility.

We wanted something simpler:

  • Your own sender ID, approved by the carrier and visible on every message.
  • One clear wallet, with an append-only ledger that reconciles against your accounting.
  • Proper delivery reports, per recipient, with failure reasons and timestamps.
  • No hidden route changes. The class you picked is the corridor we used.
  • No guessing. Every cost, reservation, and settlement visible before and after.

None of that is a new idea. It's the baseline for a serious B2B product in any other category. We decided someone should bring it to Nigerian SMS.

What makes it different

Three things you'll notice immediately.

No separate provider account required

One workspace, one wallet, one login. We run the provider relationships on our side. You stay focused on your business.

Proper sender ID approval and tracking

Submit once, see the carrier's decision end-to-end. Rejection reasons surfaced in your dashboard, not in a support email.

Wallet and delivery reports you can actually trust

Append-only ledger. Per-recipient delivery outcomes with failure reasons. Nothing aggregated, nothing silently charged.

Available today

What exists right now.

If you sign up today, this is what you'll have.

  • Nigeria-first focus
  • Termii as the underlying provider
  • Sender ID request and approval tracking
  • Append-only wallet with invoiced top-ups
  • Per-recipient delivery reports
  • DND-aware routing and compliance preflight

Roadmap

What's coming later.

In build or queued. We'll announce each one as it ships, not before.

  • Additional Nigerian carriers and direct routes
  • International SMS corridors
  • Public API with signed webhooks
  • WhatsApp Business integration
  • CSV / JSON export for delivery data

Most of the above already exists in the product today — sender ID submission and tracking, the append-only wallet, per-recipient delivery reports, DND-aware routing. You can evaluate the parts that matter to you before committing anything beyond a ₦1,000 top-up.

The fastest way to evaluate smspostam is to try it.

Create a workspace, request a sender ID, and fund a small wallet. You'll have a concrete sense of whether this is the SMS infrastructure you've been wanting in under an hour.

  • Workspace in under 5 minutes
  • Sender ID approval in 24–72 hours
  • Fund from ₦1,000