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Increase sales and customer satisfaction with smarter SMS campaigns, instant OTPs, notifications, two-way interactions, and other award-winning bulk SMS services. See how businesses are using Textlocal to send crisis comms and go digital during COVID-19 here.
The most innovative, easy to use, and comprehensive bulk SMS service platform
Easily send powerful bulk SMS campaigns
Effortlessly personalize your SMS with names or custom fields, compose in 20+ languages, schedule/stagger your sends, add opt-out path and more. Get best-in-class SMS delivery.
5-minute SMS API integration
Automate sending and receiving SMS from any website, CRM, or application. Access SMS APIs with sample codes
Convey more with SMS attachments
Easily insert images, videos, PDFs, spreadsheets & more as shortlinks in your SMS campaigns and grab your customers’ attention. Convey more in 160 characters.
5-minute SMS API integration
Let your customers instantly reach you by just texting into your short/long codes and keywords. Set auto-replies or take the conversation forward on other channels.
Access real-time delivery and click reports
Measure campaign outreach and effectiveness with real-time SMS delivery reports, and granular click metrics for all weblinks and attachments sent as Textlocal shortlinks.
Get enterprise ready
Scale up seamlessly with our robust SMS gateway and features like tiered account structure for teams/franchises, user roles and privileges, audit trail, bespoke services & more.
Increase engagement with mobile solutions
Create discount vouchers and tickets, web surveys and forms right from our web portal. Include them as short URLs in your SMS campaigns on-the-fly and get higher response rates.
Connect with your customers via WhatsApp API
Provide your customers with important account/service updates, notifications, & more by automating Whatsapp messages. You can even receive customer enquiries on Whatsapp and continue the conversation.
Different ways you can send SMS with Textlocal
Web UI
SMS APIs
Email to SMS
Why LookMe Tech?
Easily Send Powerful SMS Campaigns
Whether it is sending media-rich personalized SMS, composing in 20+ languages, slicing/scheduling campaigns, or excluding opt-outs, it is all incredibly easy!
Authentic Real-time Reports
Track delivery status of every SMS sent in real-time. Also get granular click reports to measure, test and optimize the performance of your bulk SMS campaigns.
One Place For All Your SMS Needs
Send promotional or transactional SMS via web UI, APIs, email or mobile app, receive SMS online or missed call hits, set up tiered accounts and more from one single platform.
Unmatched Bulk SMS Delivery
Our direct partnership with multiple telecom operators and smart SMS gateway technology ensure best-in-class delivery rates & speeds.
Quick, Flexible & Scalable API Integration
Textlocal offers the most flexible and easily adaptable SMS API gateway allowing you to start sending SMS from any application in minutes.
Fanatic Customer Support
We’re rated 4.8/5 on Trustpilot by our customers. We take pride in giving superior support to all customers, irrespective of the company size.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is bulk SMS? How do businesses use bulk SMS services?
‘Bulk SMS’ or ‘bulk messaging’ refers to businesses sending SMS to one or more recipients via software platforms such as Textlocal. Bulk SMS can scale up to millions of recipients in the case of informational or promotional broadcasts. Alternatively, bulk SMS can also mean individual SMS sent to customers upon an action e.g. receiving an alert on credit card transaction. Both these activities can be easily carried out from bulk SMS service platforms as they allow businesses to create, schedule, send and track SMS campaigns. Bulk SMS is used by SMBs, global enterprises, developers, educational institutes, NGOs and government agencies for product promotions, informational communications, transactional alerts, order updates, reminders, feedback and more. Check out how bulk SMS use cases for different industry verticals.
Why should businesses use bulk SMS?
In today’s mobile world, SMS beats all the other channels hands down with 97% open rates (vs 10%-30% open rates for email and social media channels) and ten times the response rate. By embedding actionable links within the message, bulk SMS can even help improve conversion rates across the customer lifecycle – acquisition, engagement and retention. Check out why you should include bulk SMS in your mobile strategy. Bulk SMS is used by SMBs, global enterprises, developers, educational institutes, NGOs and government agencies for product promotions, informational communications, transactional alerts, order updates, reminders, feedback and more. Check out how bulk SMS use cases for different industry verticals.
What is the difference between Promotional SMS and Transactional SMS?
TRAI has notified “The Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulations, 2010” classifying text messages as per the intent or nature of content within the text messages. Here is an easy summary: Bulk SMS is used by SMBs, global enterprises, developers, educational institutes, NGOs and government agencies for product promotions, informational communications, transactional alerts, order updates, reminders, feedback and more. Check out how bulk SMS use cases for different industry verticals.
How much does bulk SMS cost?
Our bulk SMS software and service are free to use, you simply pay for the texts that you send. You can buy Textlocal SMS credits online and use these credits to send both promotional and transactional SMS (1 SMS credit = 1 single-part SMS of 160 characters).
Promotional SMS Vs Transactional SMS
Promotional SMS is used to send offers, discounts or promotions to new and existing customers. The messages may or may not be solicited by the recipients.
Messages are only delivered to non-DND numbers and opt-in numbers*
Promotional SMS can be sent only between 9 AM and 9 PM
DM-123456
Promotional bulk SMS will be delivered with a random 6-digit Sender ID assigned by the telecom operator
Transactional SMS is used to send OTPs, informational messages, booking and order alerts to your registered customers. They should not be intended for marketing.
Messages are delivered to all recipients, irrespective of their Do-Not-Disturb (DND) status
Messages are delivered to all recipients, irrespective of their Do-Not-Disturb (DND) status
IM-TXTLCL
Transactional SMS can be assigned a 6-alpha character Sender ID of your choice. It should correspond with your business or product name.