Key Takeaways
- Scenario 250 is facility birth-notification USSD: a short menu at the maternity desk. Timeout is a radio miss, not an unregistered birth — not ANC present, rations, or storm scores.
- A civil register that treats dropped sessions as “never born” will lose a child on the next certificate run.
- Do not USSD the full name or the mother’s ID. Facility code, sex, and live/still — paper holds the rest.
- Staff portal OTP stays on another device.
- Priced by devices and SMS send volume. You use your own phone and operator SMS credit. Free: 1 device / 300 SMS lifetime / 300 contacts. Developer: 25,000 SMS per year.
Android SMS gateway scenario 250 is a civil-registration desk in a maternity ward. Midwives dial a short code and notify a live birth. ANC attendance and camp rations are the wrong list.
Priced by devices and SMS send volume. You use your own phone and operator SMS credit. USSD · Developer Center. GSMA.
Notify tree, not ANC
Keep the tree to three steps. Persist only a committed notify. Map to facility + day + sequence.
If a dropped *117# became “missing,” you lost a child on the next certificate print.
USSD vs reminder SMS
| Lane | Body | On timeout | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ward notify | Code + live | Retry / paper | Ward modem |
| Follow-up SMS | Clinic day | DLR separately | HQ modem |
| Staff portal OTP | Digits | Auth | Dedicated |
Caps: 2 / 5 / 15.
Timeout ≠ unregistered
One retry, then paper. Deliverability. REST: PHP, C#. MCP wraps REST.
No full names
Facility and outcome only. Names stay on the paper notify.
Devices and airtime
Priced by devices and SMS send volume. You use your own phone and operator SMS credit. Free: 300 lifetime. Developer: 25,000 SMS per year. Pricing.
Ward morning
Notify ids
Log facility + sequence + result, not names in chat. Rotate keys. Not a CodeCanyon CRVS pack.
Retry then paper
If you will treat timeouts as missing, do not run USSD notify.
Checklist
- Commit only on notify.
- Timeout queue for retry.
- No names in the tree.
- OTP on another device.
- Webhook signatures.
Next steps
Drop a session mid-menu; prove the birth stays uncommitted until a completed notify. Downloads · Docs.
Related product pages
Jump to the live product docs for this topic—not another long-form article.
- USSD balance and menu automationOperator USSD codes
- SMS API documentationLive endpoint reference
- device and SMS volume pricingPlans and allowances
- Android SMS gateway product guideDefinition, product, and how to buy
