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ForthFocus
4.7 (3 reviews)
ForthFocus SMS – OTP Verification, Order Notifications & Indian DLT for WooCommerce
Indian DLT-compliant SMS for WooCommerce: order-status notifications, OTP at login / signup / checkout, full delivery logs.
ForthFocus SMS ranks #28,305 among WordPress.org plugins with 20+ active installations, is #1,121 of 3,634 in the Communication category, a 4.7/5 rating from 3 reviews, and was last updated Oct 26, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1.4
v1.0.8
Current Version v1.0.8
Updated 1 week ago
Last Update on 26 Oct, 2026
Refreshed 1 week ago
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- Version
- 1.0.8
- Last Updated
- Oct 26, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.0+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1.4
- PHP Version
- 8.4 or higher
- Author
- ForthFocus
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- Reviews
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about ForthFocus SMS – OTP Verification, Order Notifications & Indian DLT for WooCommerce
The plugin requires WooCommerce. The OTP module also works on the standard WordPress login (wp-login.php) regardless.
The plugin currently supports SMSGatewayHub, ForthFocus SMS Gateway, Gupshup, Fast2SMS, 2Factor, and MSG91. Adapters for Twilio and Kaleyra are planned for upcoming releases. The plugin's architecture is provider-agnostic — once a new adapter is added, the same templates and OTP flows continue to work.
Right now the plugin sends through SMSGatewayHub, ForthFocus SMS Gateway, Gupshup, Fast2SMS, 2Factor, or MSG91. If you have an account with a different provider (Twilio, Kaleyra, etc.), you have three options: (1) use one of the currently supported gateways, (2) wait for a future provider adapter, or (3) hook into our ffsms_before_send filter and dispatch to your own provider in custom code while still benefiting from our DLT enforcement, logging, and OTP machinery.
0024 means your message body does not match the DLT-approved template registered with your operator. The most common causes are: extra text outside what was registered, wrong punctuation, malformed variable syntax (use {curly_braces} not {round_braces} or {#var#}), or emojis that the operator does not accept. The plugin's live linter catches most of these as you type.
Per-payment-method OTP gating is planned for the next release. In the current version, OTP at the cart page applies to all payment methods. You can also wire it via custom code using the ffsms_before_send filter.
DND handling is enforced at the operator side, not in the plugin. If you send to a DND-registered number using a template approved under the "Promotional" or "Explicit" category, the operator returns code 640-659 and the plugin marks the send as failed with the operator's reason. To deliver to DND numbers, get your template approved under the "Service" or "Implicit" category on the DLT portal.
Not in the free version. Those features are planned for the upcoming Pro tier.
OTP codes are stored in a dedicated wp_ffsms_otp database table, hashed with a per-phone salt and a per-site secret. Plaintext OTP values never persist. Codes have a configurable expiry (default 10 minutes) and a resend cooldown (default 30 seconds). The plugin enforces a max-attempts lockout to prevent brute-forcing.
Phone numbers are normalized to E.164-style digits (country code + national number, no +). The default country code is configurable in Gateway settings. If your DLT registration covers Indian numbers only, sends to non-Indian numbers may be rejected by the operator — that is a DLT/operator policy, not a plugin restriction.
Partially, with a documented limitation. The OTP verification gate renders above the Checkout Block on Twenty Twenty-Five and other FSE themes that use it, and the server-side guard rejects orders where the submitted phone does not match the verified number. However, because the Checkout Block's phone input is managed by React inside the block, it cannot be auto-locked from outside the block API — the user can technically type a different number after verifying. Verification is still enforced (at order submission), but the experience is tighter on the classic shortcode-based checkout where the phone field can be locked at the field level. Native checkout-block integration is on the v1.1 roadmap. For the strictest behavior in the meantime, use the classic checkout shortcode. The plugin declares compatibility with WooCommerce's High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) and the Cart/Checkout Block APIs. All order-related operations use the HPOS-safe WC_Order API rather than legacy postmeta queries.
