Once you upload phone numbers to Mobile Commons, you must also subscribe the phone numbers to your campaign to ensure they get messages. Here's how to do it:
Subscribe to a Campaign or Opt-In Path
Whenever you upload new people to a group in Mobile Commons, you must subscribe them to a Campaign or Opt-In Path. Select Subscribe to Campaign from the Group Actions menu you can see on the right-hand side of the page that loads after you've uploaded people (or when you click the group name)…
From here, you'll see a long list of campaigns and opt-in paths (these are denoted by a hyphen and listed under the campaign to which they belong). Select the campaign or opt-in path and then click Subscribe…
You'll get the warning below reminding you that subscribing someone to a campaign will not automatically send them a message, but subscribing them to an opt-in path will automatically send them the message associated with that opt-in path. You may want to, for example, have an opt-in path that sends a welcome message with the required legalese.