Getting Started As A Text Only User

if you are a text only user

and so if you're text only user what

you'll want to do is

head over here to the setup page which

you can get to by clicking on your name

and then going to setup

on here

it's these two places right here in that

right column that you're going to be

needing to set up in order to get

started

so let's start with the user settings

here you'll want to fill out

some of this basic information most

importantly just your first and last

name and any information that you would

want to

be merged automatically into texts uh

because you know for instance you can

put in like social media links and

things like that here

and then simply in your your text

templates

use a merge tag to automatically pull

that information so you don't have to

look it up every time for instance so

things that would be helpful to have in

that case do that right there very

importantly make sure your time zone is

set correctly

because that will affect the scheduling

of of texts that are uh scheduled in

advance

and

and you can note right here

at the very bottom here is where you can

reset your password if needed

so then uh next you can go to texting

and basically everything on this page

you're going to want to

take care of so

first and foremost you can click right

here to

search for a number these numbers in

case you don't know

are going to be real 10 digit numbers

that are unique to you

and so you can put in your

area code

and

you'll see a selection if there are

numbers available for that given area

code and you can also

start to narrow down as well if there

are strings of numbers that

appeal to you so let's say

something like this oops i need to go

down here and search there we go so you

are able to uh narrow down to numbers

that that look good for you

once you find one that looks good click

on it and hit the claim number button

so next

you'll want to um well actually you you

might consider porting a number um

we are able to get existing texting

numbers from outside services

though just know that this can take a

little while potentially like as in

a few days to maybe a week maybe a

little bit more than that it all depends

on the speed of your existing

provider

and how uh

how cooperative they are with getting

the number over here

know that wherever you transfer the

number from that place will no longer

have that number available so

you can't really

transfer over your existing phone's

texting number because you would lose

your phone number with your current

phone

um

and also while this is taking place

i that you're no you're not able to text

that number so there is like a bit of

down time

while the number is in limbo so it's

much quicker to

capture a new number right here would

search for a number but if you want to

keep the consistent number you can fill

this out right here

and then

you need to fill out this campaign

registry information so every single

texting use case with the digit number

needs to be registered with the campaign

registry uh it's a governing body

basically that just keeps all the

various campaign use cases uh on record

and helps with reducing spam

so if you

register with the camp what actually

rather when you register for the

campaign registry we take care of

the whole registration process we just

need you to fill out this fill this out

so we can take care of that

so

make sure you fill out all of your

information right here

pertaining to your business

um you have to give an example of your

of your what exactly your campaigns are

about and also

give some example texts that you might

send out

the copy doesn't have to perfectly match

um what you're sending it's just the

gist of the text that is important

and when you get down here you've got

business type

very important right here to make sure

you get this correct

the two most common cases here are

private company and sole proprietor sole

proprietor is basically if you are

um just operating under your name

and you don't have like an llc

established or anything like that in

other words you can go to a lawyer to

get your business set up you just

started doing business one day

so in that case you choose sole

proprietor

if you do have an llc you know you got

an official business on record with an

ein

then you'll want to choose private

company

so that's also another big

distinguishing factor there whether or

not you have an ein if there's no ein

and you just file your taxes under your

social security numbers then chances are

uh you are a sole proprietor

now if you are a private company there

are a couple of pass-through fees that

are imposed by

the uh by the campaign registry um again

we take care of all that for you uh the

billing just goes straight through us

and we pass the money on over over to

them those fees are a one-time 54 dollar

charge plus two dollars a month ongoing

and um

yeah and then like i said we take care

of that for you and um

once you submit this

then we handle that on our end we take a

look at it make sure that everything is

looking good then we pass it back to you

again and you will find that uh on this

page right here you'll get a message

from our support team telling you you go

to your text settings page and do

another once over on this and then once

you have

filled out any additional information

that is needed and you submit it and it

goes to the campaign registry and should

take a couple of days then to get

processed once that's done then you are

ready to purchase credits which you are

able to do right here

and you're ready to start sending

so of course if you have any questions

anywhere along the way

by all means reach out to us and we will

be more than happy to help thank you