Best Bulk Text Message Services

As its name implies, EZ Texting makes it simple for businesses to market to their customers using text messaging. Users just choose a keyword and let the software create a sharable short code. 

For example, a business owner chooses DEALZ as a keyword and gets the short code 313131 from EZ Texting. They can then send the following message to their customers: “Text DEALZ to 313131 to get monthly coupons." Customers who text the keyword automatically become subscribers and get added to the business’s list.  

EZ Texting offers many automated marketing features, including drip campaigns, text forwarding, recurring messages, reminders, and polls. Users can also personalize messages for each customer using an existing database or a list of subscribers generated by the platform. Finally, EZ Texting integrates with a number of powerful third-party marketing tools, including Constant Contact, Zendesk, Mailchimp, Hubspot, Squarespace, Salesforce, and more.

SlickText offers an intuitive interface that makes it easy for users with no text message marketing experience to quickly become adept with the platform. The company’s website also offers step-by-step instructional guides on creating an account, reserving a keyword, and setting up auto-reply. Users can get fast customer support via phone, email, or live chat.

SlickText gives users many standard text message marketing features, including drip campaigns, auto-responders, scheduling, picture messaging, surveys, birthday texts, and text-to-win contests.

SlickText also provides users with robust reporting, segmentation, personalization, and email capture features and integrates with over 4,000 third-party apps through Zapier, including Facebook Ads, Twitter, Mailchimp, Zoho CRM, Shopify, and more.

You can import a list of contacts, organize them, and schedule messages to be sent out, all using a simple and intuitive interface. Getting started is easy. You create a free account, set up prepaid credit payments, and start sending and receiving text messages right away. 

TextMagic offers virtual toll-free numbers in over 190 countries, so customers don’t have to pay to reply to messages. The platform can also forward calls made to these virtual numbers to any other number the user wants. TextMagic offers many standard text messaging features, like automation rules, surveys, attachments, text-to-speech, and email-to-text.

Finally, TextMagic integrates with thousands of third-party apps through Zapier to expand its marketing capabilities. It offers an API that allows developers to connect the platform to just about any type of business software.       

TextMagic offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Prices start at $0.04 per text in the U.S., with varying rates in other countries. The company also offers a 30-day free trial.

Textedly offers a clean web-based interface that lets users access common messaging features, including scheduled campaigns, custom subscriber data, picture messaging, email capture, and auto-responders. Textedly is also one of the only companies that can send an SMS text message of over 455 characters. Textedly integrates with over 1,000 apps directly and can integrate with additional apps via Zapier.

Textedly keeps things simple for small businesses with basic reporting that gives users real-time data such as user activity and history, interactive graphs, and performance metrics. The platform also supports an unlimited number of users, can import subscriber lists from another text messaging provider, and makes it easy to upgrade to a bigger texting plan anytime. 

Textedly offers 13 plans in total, but we are only showing pricing for the tiers best suited for small- to mid-sized businesses.

Trumpia offers many standard text messaging features, including drip campaigns, scheduled reminders, contact importing, mobile keywords, and detailed reporting. The platform also offers advanced engagement tools, including yes/no response texts, auto-responses, SMS coupons, text-to-vote messages, and a shuffle responder for sending random fun messages.

Trumpia also offers more powerful automation than most other providers we reviewed. The platform automatically captures data as subscribers respond to text prompts and filters subscribers based on their interests, characteristics, and behavior. This type of detailed tracking lets businesses segment and target their customers more accurately instead of blasting everyone with the same messages. 

Finally, Trumpia integrates directly with Salesforce and thousands of other third-party apps through Zapier. Developers can create nearly any software integration using Trumpia’s APIs and pre-programmed tools. 

Trumpia offers 11 plans that range from $94 to $2,799 per month when billed annually based on the number of messages and emails included. Below, we provide details for the plans most suitable for small businesses.

In addition to letting users import a list of contacts like other text message marketing providers, SimpleTexting also lets businesses use their existing business phone line to receive texts. The company can also provide businesses with random or vanity-dedicated short codes.

SimpleTexting offers most typical bulk message marketing features, including custom fields, auto-responders, text-to-win, text-to-vote, scheduling, segmentation, polling, and analytics. Other features include the ability to sign up for text messages via a web form, self-cleaning lists that check for dead numbers, automated birthday texts, and more.

Finally, SimpleTexting offers direct integrations with many third-party apps, including Mailchimp, Salesforce, Slack, and Twitter. Users can also choose from thousands of other integrations through Zapier or have their developers customize their own using SimpleTexting’s API.  

All of SimpleTexting’s plans come with a 14-day free trial and include free incoming SMS messages, unlimited contacts, support seven days a week, unlimited keywords, and rollover credit. Subscription pricing is based on the number of messages expressed as credits.

Twilio stands out from the other programs on our list because it lets developers create any type of bulk messaging service they want. The platform’s Programmable Messaging API can be configured to let users send customer notifications, mass alerts, targeted marketing messages, verifications, and more via text, WhatsApp, and chat.

For those who are not developers, the company offers Twilio Studio. This drag-and-drop builder lets users build a custom workflow, including surveys, appointment reminders, auto-responders, call forwarding, call center workflows, posting messages to Slack, and more.   

Finally, users can connect their Zapier account to Twilio to bypass coding completely. Examples include sending and receiving text messages using email or posting texts to Slack or Google Sheets.

Twilio offers pay-as-you-go pricing for its SMS features. Sending and receiving messages via local or toll-free numbers or short codes costs $0.0079 to send and receive messages. Picture messages can be sent via local numbers or short codes for $0.0200 and received for $0.0100 per message in most cases.

Twilio also offers dedicated local numbers and dedicated toll-free numbers. Customers can also use their existing local or toll-free numbers for $0.50 per month.