Send Text Message From E-mail

The Basics

Sending text messages from an email using TXTImpact email to text message service is simple, efficient, and reliable. We simply convert your e-mail messages into a text message and deliver it to any wireless carrier in the world.

You can send text messages from any email clients such as Outlook, Lotus Notes, Gmail, Yahoo or even your company email or exchange server.

Advantages

The advantage of sending text messages from an email is that it allows you to communicate through text messaging right from your computer at the same time archiving the messages for the future reference in support of e-discovery.

It also allows you to search the text messages along with your other communication with clients over your e-mail. This service comes in handy when you need to send text messages from legacy software which doesn’t have native text messaging support, but they do have an e-mail notification either to customer, technicians, installers, service agents, etc.

1. Do I need to know wireless provider name of the recipient?

   No, you don’t need to know a name of the recipient, our SMS gateway handles that. You just need to send an email to “[email protected]”, we handle rest.

2. In which countries the service is available?

   The service is available for USA, Canada, and over 800 international networks.

3. Can we receive a reply to multiple email address?

   Yes, you can configure your campaign to include multiple authorized email addresses.

4. Is it possible to send messages longer than 160 characters?

   Yes, you can specify the number of characters you want to send a text message. The rest of the email content will be truncated.

5. Does message recipient needs to include any keyword in their reply message?

   No, the reply doesn’t need to have any keyword in their message.

6. Can we allow anyone from our company to send a message from email account?

   Yes, depending on your plan you can add additional authorized e-mails to your account.

7. What phone number recipient will see as sender, can I use my phone number?

   By default recipients in the USA will see a 5 digit number such as 27126, Canadian recipient will see a message from 10 digit number and other international destinations will see a UK phone number as sender number.

   We can’t use your number as a sender Id, but we can assign you a new local number may be same area code as yours. We offer local numbers for the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Austria, China, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. Each additional local number assigned costs $5/month.