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Business text message service

Send messages with impact. Engage with contacts directly, lead in marketing, close leads, and boost sales. All from one powerful and integrated global platform.

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Over 150,000 brands rely on Sinch to reach their customers

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Multichannel messaging made simple

Scalable, reliable business text messaging

Connect with your audience at every step. With Sinch Engage’s business text messaging service, connect more deeply, stay top of mind, and convert more. 

SMS, MMS, and RCS messages with an average 98% open rate.

Engage customers with real-time, two-way messaging.

Integrate seamlessly with your CRM or ERP, social platforms, and business tools.
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Text message marketing

Drive sales & brand loyalty

Connect with your audience at every stage of the journey with two-way texting conversations that keep contacts engaged.  

  • Close deals. Answer questions, schedule follow-ups, send special offers, and reconnect with past leads.  

  • Promote sales. Send promotions, flash sale alerts, personalized discount offers, and product updates directly to customers’ phones. 

  • Build brand loyalty. Stay top of mind: Send personalized recommendations, promote an exclusive offer, and alert customers when their favorite items are back in stock. 

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Communication

Keep contacts informed & in the loop

Provide around-the-clock customer care without the added workload with SMS for businesses.

  • Send messages straight to a contact’s inbox with instant delivery, schedule a bulk message, or create personalized drip messages to keep customers engaged.

  • Confirm appointments or communicate with alerts and notifications that keep clients, customers, and patients on track.

  • Deliver top-notch customer care with live support, automated responses to common questions, and a shared inbox your whole team can use to stay organized.

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Compliance

Build trust with reliable & secure global messaging

Sinch Engage offers business texting on a tier-1 global network with best-in-class security measures baked into every message.

  • Reach any mobile phone on the planet in seconds with a network of 600+ direct telecom operator connections and WhatsApp.

  • Message confidently on a secure infrastructure with 99% delivery reliability. We’re General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Service Organization Control Type 2 (SOC2) compliant, MEF Code of Conduct approved, and ISO27001 certified.

  • Send messages in bulk or to specific segments of contacts on a robust and fast platform designed to handle vast volumes of traffic.

Messaging use cases across industries

Business texting that works for you

Get more eyes on your message by sending through a secure infrastructure with 99% delivery reliability.

Retail

Recover abandoned carts, send promotions, and automate customer engagement.

Healthcare

Secure appointment reminders and patient follow-ups safely and securely.

Real Estate

Set up instant property alerts, client updates, and open house reminders.

Hospitality

Send booking confirmations, guest messaging, and loyalty program promotions.

Service-Based Businesses

Auto-manage appointment scheduling, service updates, and customer retention messaging.

Education

Alert parents and teachers of events, initiatives, school closures, and student engagement.
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Seamless integrations

Skip the onboarding and get down to business

Native integrations with industry-leading CRM and ERP platforms and 85+ integrations across popular business tools connect your business texting service to the rest of your tech stack. Easy.

  • ERP and CRM systems: Sync with platforms like NetSuite, Salesforce, and HubSpot to maintain a unified customer view and automate messaging workflows.

  • E-commerce platforms: Connect with Shopify and BigCommerce to send order confirmations and shipping updates directly to customers.

  • Marketing platforms: Message your contacts where they hang out across WhatsApp and social channels.

  • Productivity tools: Connect Zapier to link Sinch Engage with over 5,000 apps across your tech stack.  

Tools that keep you connected

Business text messaging features

85+ integrations

Sync messaging across your entire tech stack, with native integrations inside your CRP or ERP.

Mass Texting

Send important updates and promotions to thousands of contacts at once.

Rich messages

Send SMS, MMS, or RCS messages, or message on WhatsApp and social channels.

Personalized Messaging

Deliver relevant, targeted messages at scale.

Real-Time Analytics

Track performance and optimize campaigns.

Two-way conversations

Send a text to everyone but respond 1:1 for targeted, more personalized interactions.

Automated alerts

Contacts always receive important alerts — like delivery updates and payment reminders.

Advanced team inbox

Message as one team, from one shared inbox to reduce friction and be more productive.

AI writing assistance

Craft engaging content quickly with an AI writing tool that makes composing a breeze.

Template manager

Create reusable templates or use preexisting templates for consistent messaging that speeds up your work.

Mobile landing pages

Send customers to a personalized landing page. Track clicks to measure engagement.

Contact groups

Target specific audiences efficiently and send one message to groups of contacts at once.
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Send your first text

Get started with a business text messaging service in minutes

Start a free trial or connect with one of our experts for custom solutions to your business needs.

Sign up for free or work with one of our sales experts to design a custom messaging solution that’s right for your business.

Simply create an account to send a test message. 

Securely upload a list of recipients to our portal and organize your contacts. Or sync your contacts directly in your CRM or ERP.

Get a free test number from Sinch, set up your own dedicated number, or register for a local number, a rotating number pool, a toll-free number, or short code. 

Create a free WhatsApp or social link in just a few clicks for a 360 view of your customers across messaging platforms.

Send your message from our self-serve portal or from our RESTful API. Learn more about our SMS API.

Grab one of our pre-built templates and have AI Assist compose your first message so you’re ready to send in seconds.  

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Best-in-class compliance

A safer way to send business messages

We take security seriously and follow the regulations laid out by both the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) for businesses using application-to-person texting (A2P). The Complete Guide to SMS Compliance breaks down best practices, legal requirements, and everything you need to know to send messages securely every time.

  • Opt-in management: Confirm new contacts at each step for written consent to send them promotional and marketing text messages. 

  • Easy opt outs: Make it easy for contacts to stop receiving messages from you with a STOP option included in every text.

  • Carrier Regulations: Follow mobile carrier guidelines to prevent message filtering.

  • Two-Factor authentication: Maintain compliance with opt-in verification. 

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Reliable messaging, built to scale

See why over 150,000 businesses trust Sinch for messaging, voice, and email.

See why over 150,000 businesses trust Sinch for messaging, voice, and email.

  • 85+ integrations that work seamlessly with your favorite tools. 

  • No learning curve. Get set up and send messages in minutes.

  • 24/7 support and end-to-end managed services so we’re always available when you need help. 

  • Advanced analytics to track message performance and optimize campaigns. 

  • Compliance-first approach that keeps messages out of spam folders. 

RCS

Stand out with branded, rich messages.

Bulk SMS

Message all or some of your contacts at once from our global platform.

WhatsApp

Connect with 2 billion users effortlessly.

Business text message service FAQs

Business text messaging is a fast and effective way for businesses to communicate with customers, employees, patients, students, and clients with a short messaging service (SMS) and multimedia messaging service (MMS) and using two-way communication. Using a business texting service can help organize and streamline communication efforts across your organization and with your contacts on a channel with a 98% open rate, instant delivery, and responses in minutes.

Business texting is useful for marketing campaigns, emergency alerts, sales alerts, scheduling and booking confirmations, patient communication, community communication, and customer support.

You’ve got a lot of options when it comes to setting up a phone number for texting.

A great way to build trust with contacts is to register for a local number or 10DLC, which is a 10-digit long code that allows businesses to send text messages to customers from a local number for any “application to person,” or A2P messaging (meaning they’re sent from messaging software) in a way that doesn’t feel spammy.

You can also register for a dedicated short code, which are a good fit for large organizations sending bulk SMS and MMS texts regularly. Short codes are 5- to 6-digit numbers that are easy for customers to remember.

Finally, you can use a toll-free number for texting, but you’ll need to register and verify that number.

When you sign up for a Sinch Engage account, we’ll guide you through the process of obtaining and verifying phone numbers for messaging.

Yes, with MMS, you can send multimedia content for more engaging interactions.

Business texting is useful for just about any organization and use case because it’s both easy to use and customizable to your business needs. It’s especially useful for businesses wanting to communicate en masse to their contact list and for real-time communication with segments or groups within a larger contact list.

Retail, healthcare, education, hospitality, service-based businesses, nonprofits, religious organization, and fitness or wellness brands benefit quite a bit from business texting because it’s so useful for scheduling and confirming appointments, secure messaging with patients or parents, targeted promotions, personalized follow-ups, surveys, and real-time alerts.

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