Business Texting

Text your customers from your business number

Send and receive texts with customers from your business's own numbers, for the everyday conversations that are easier by message than by phone: appointments, confirmations, and quick questions.

Business texting is available on eligible US local numbers after registration is approved. It is for customer conversations and service messages. Bulk texting, marketing campaigns, cold outreach, and high-volume automated messaging are not supported.

What you can send

Real conversations, from your business number

Send and receive text messages (SMS), and picture messages (MMS) too, with the customers who contact your business. Each user with texting adds SMS units to your account's shared pool every month, so the allowance belongs to the account rather than being locked to one person, and the team works from it together. Texting is included on every plan, with a larger monthly allowance on Premium. The exact numbers are on the Pricing page.

Shared SMS allowance
Shared monthly pool of SMS units
Hi, is my order ready for pickup?
Yes, it's ready at the front desk today.
Great, on my way.

How SMS units are counted

Clear on how the pool is used

A quick note on how the pool is used, so nothing on the bill is a surprise:

Both directions count. A message a customer sends you draws from the pool, not only the ones you send out.
A normal short text is one SMS unit. A longer text may use two or more.
A picture message (MMS) uses two SMS units.
SMS units
Short text1 unit
Longer text2+ units
Picture (MMS)2 units
Inbound toocounts

How texting gets started

We handle registration for you

Before texting can begin, the carriers require the business to be registered. CallPerfect handles that for you: we collect the business details, register the account, and let you know when texting is ready. There is nothing to file yourself, and texting starts once registration is approved.

1

We register your business

We collect the details and file the registration for you.

2

Carriers review

The carriers review and approve the registration.

3

Texting is ready

We let you know, and texting starts once approved.

Opt-outs, handled

STOP and HELP replies, handled automatically

When a customer texts STOP, further texts stop on their own, and START resumes them. HELP gets a standard automatic reply. Getting and keeping consent to text a customer stays with you.

When a customer texts STOP, further texts to that number are blocked automatically until they reply START. HELP gets a standard automatic reply. You are responsible for getting and keeping your customers' consent to text them.

Auto-replies
STOP→Texts blocked until they reply START
START→Texts resume
HELP→Standard automatic reply

Start texting your customers

Book a short demo and we will walk through how texting fits your customer conversations, and get the registration moving.