Broadcast Text Messaging

The broadcast text message module allows an association to send out text messages to a group of members.  

A minimum monthly charge of $19.95 applies.  (if you use less than 500 individual texts in a given month, you would still have to pay $19.95 in that month). This is a premium service. Additional texts above the 500 allowed per month cost $.02 cents per member-message (if you were to send an additional 100 text messages to members, the cost would be $0.50 extra). (Pricing current as of August 2015).

To turn on this feature, please contact tech support - we will turn on the module for you.

It will be necessary to turn on a special mobile-phone field within the member database, such that you would load your members mobile #'s into that field.  This is the field that is used to determine the phone numbers to use when sending out broadcasts.

When the module is enabled, to send a message, click on 'send new message'.  You'll be prompted to enter a subject and message (note: the subject is not sent, this is just used as a way to track which message was which).  

In the next screen, you'll be prompted to select recipients.  Only member records with something entered in the mobile phone field will be available to you.  Once you've made your selection, verified your message, you then can send it.

After the message, there is a 'status page' available for that message.  It will show the progress of the message (which ones have been sent, or which ones had difficulty).  Also, If the recipients choose to reply to your text, their replies will show up on the status page.