Product tour

Sending a text message

Create and personalise messages, choose your contacts, send now or schedule for later.

1. Add individual contacts or select entire groups.
2. Customise the “from” field with up to 11 characters.
3. A single SMS message is 160 characters but you can send up to 459 using textburst.
4. Personalise messages by merging in contact information.
5. Use branding, add your company name or opt out information to the end of a text message.
6. Send now or chose a date and time in the future.

The overview page

Here’s a your recent activity. View recent items and see a list of messages scheduled to go out in the future.

1. Links to recently sent SMS.
2. See recently received messages.
3. Hot links to useful tasks.
4. The ‘big button’ makes it easy to get back to the most important screen.
5. Simple, logical menu system.
6. Mini pie’s – the status of your campaign at a glance.

Summary results

You’ve sent a campaign and want to see how it’s performing. This chart summarises the status of all messages, just keep refreshing the page to see the pie fill up with delivery notifications.

1. Your message content.
2. Date and time of send.
3. Switch to list view and see the status of each text message.
4. Summarised statistics – (sent, queued, en-route, delivered, undeliverable).

List view

See the delivery status of every single message you sent, as with the pie chart, it works in real time.

1. Individual delivery status.
2. Date and time of delivery.
3. Name and number of recipients.
4. Campaign tips, learn, and improve.
5. Download the information to Microsoft Excel.

Settings

We’ve got a whole heap of settings you can to tweak to make the product work exactly how you want.

1. Create and manage standard message templates.
2. Integrate textburst directly with Microsoft Outlook.
3. Set-up and manage credit alarms, get warnings when you’re low on credit.
4. Edit branding options, append your company to to text messages.
5. Set and manage “from” field preferences.