India’s No. 1 Bulk SMS Platform
Increase sales and customer satisfaction with smarter SMS campaigns, instant OTPs, notifications, two-way interactions, and other award-winning bulk SMS services
India’s No 1. Bulk SMS Platform
Increase sales and customer satisfaction with smarter SMS campaigns, instant OTPs, notifications, two-way interactions, and other award-winning bulk SMS services
COVID-19 Update: See how businesses are using Textlocal to send effective crisis communications and go digital! Know more
Trusted By Over 225,000 Businesses
The most innovative, easy to use, and comprehensive bulk SMS service platform
Easily send powerful bulk SMS campaigns
Create SMS campaigns your customers love
Convey more with SMS attachments
Send files via SMS
Access real-time delivery and click reports
Track SMS campaign metrics
Increase engagement with mobile solutions
Send mobile-friendly tickets and surveys
Connect with your customers via WhatsApp
Know more about about Whatsapp Business API
5-minute SMS API integration
Know more about Textlocal SMS APIs
Receive SMS online
Enable two-way customer interactions
Get enterprise ready
Manage accounts, users, and data
Missed call numbers & dual VMNs
Get missed call solutions
Different ways you can
send SMS with Textlocal
Best-in-class delivery. Guaranteed.
Thousands of enterprises including leading banks trust us with sending OTPs and other business-critical messages via our bulk SMS gateway.
- Intelligent, fine-tuned SMS gateway routing technology
- Robust and scalable infrastructure with inbuilt redundancy
- Direct connectivity with multiple telecom operators
Enterprise-grade security with 128-bit data encryption and strict data privacy policies.
Fanatic customer support for expert help with everything from simple tips to technical integrations.
Clear, honest pricing with zero hidden charges. Pay as you go with zero commitments. See bulk SMS pricing.
Promotional SMS or Transactional SMS, we’ve got you covered
Promotional SMS
Configured by default for all new accounts, promotional SMS is generally used for sending any offers or promotions to new and existing customers. Messages are sent to non-DND numbers and opt-in numbers (via myDND Manager) between 9 AM and 9 PM only.
Transactional SMS
Transactional route can only be used for sending transactional SMS such as OTPs and alerts to your registered users. Messages can be sent 24x7 from your 6-character Sender ID(s). To configure a transactional route, create your account today and contact sales@textlocal.in. No setup costs involved!
Integrate any application in minutes with our full-featured SMS APIs
- Comprehensive documentation with sample codes in 10+ languages
- Free of cost, pay only for SMS credits
- Secure, reliable & scalable SMS APIs trusted by 100,000+ developers
- Go beyond just sending or receiving SMS with Textlocal APIs. Fetch delivery receipts, manage contacts, schedule messages, retrieve credit balance, pull survey responses, & more!
- Expert team always at hand to help you with integration & support
- <?php
- require ‘textlocal.class.php’;
- $textlocal = new textlocal(
- ‘me@textlocal.in’, ’11a6cd5b1009d’);
- $textlocal->sendSms( ‘917788990011’,
- ‘Your car – KA01 HG 9999 – is due for service on
- July 24th, please text SERVICE to 9220592205
- for a callback’, ‘FORDIN’); ?>
Why Textlocal?
Easily Run Powerful SMS Campaigns
Authentic Real-time Reports
One Place For All Your SMS Needs
Unmatched SMS Delivery
Quick, Free & Flexible API Integration
Fanatic Customer Support
Features
Integrations
Textlocal For
Use Cases
Resources
Connect with us
Frequently Asked Questions
What is bulk SMS? How do businesses use bulk SMS services?
‘Bulk SMS’ or ‘bulk messaging’ refers to businesses sending SMS to one or more recipients via software platforms such as Textlocal. Bulk SMS can scale up to millions of recipients in the case of informational or promotional broadcasts. Alternatively, bulk SMS can also mean individual SMS sent to customers upon an action e.g. receiving an alert on credit card transaction. Both these activities can be easily carried out from bulk SMS service platforms as they allow businesses to create, schedule, send and track SMS campaigns.
Bulk SMS is used by SMBs, global enterprises, developers, educational institutes, NGOs and government agencies for product promotions, informational communications, transactional alerts, order updates, reminders, feedback and more. Check out how bulk SMS use cases for different industry verticals.
Why should businesses use bulk SMS?
In today’s mobile world, SMS beats all the other channels hands down with 97% open rates (vs 10%-30% open rates for email and social media channels) and ten times the response rate. By embedding actionable links within the message, bulk SMS can even help improve conversion rates across the customer lifecycle – acquisition, engagement and retention. Check out why you should include bulk SMS in your mobile strategy.
What is the difference between Promotional SMS and Transactional SMS?
TRAI has notified “The Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulations, 2010” classifying text messages as per the intent or nature of content within the text messages. Here is an easy summary:
Promotional SMS Vs Transactional SMS
| Promotional SMS is used to send offers, discounts or promotions to new and existing customers. The messages may or may not be solicited by the recipients. | Transactional SMS is used to send OTPs, informational messages, booking and order alerts to your registered customers. They should not be intended for marketing. |
| Messages are only delivered to non-DND numbers and opt-in numbers* | Messages are delivered to all recipients, irrespective of their Do-Not-Disturb (DND) status |
| Promotional SMS can be sent only between 9 AM and 9 PM | Transactional SMS are delivered 24x7 with no time restriction |
| DM-022145 Promotional bulk SMS will be delivered with a random 6-digit Sender ID assigned by the telecom operator | IM-TXTLCL Transactional SMS can be assigned a 6-alpha character Sender ID of your choice. It should correspond with your business or product name. |
Our bulk SMS software and service are free to use, you simply pay for the texts that you send. You can buy Textlocal SMS credits online and use these credits to send both promotional and transactional SMS (1 SMS credit = 1 single-part SMS of 160 characters). Check out our bulk SMS pricing.
Whatever your business SMS needs, Textlocal helps you maximize ROI with its multi-award-winning features, direct telecom partnerships and robust technology backend. Please watch out for any bulk SMS service provider offering insanely low prices as they generally come with low-quality delivery and fake delivery reports. For sales enquiry, please call us on 040-30858602 or email us at sales@textlocal.in and we will get back to you.
What makes Textlocal India’s No. 1 bulk SMS service provider?
Textlocal offers easy, powerful & self–serve messaging platform which makes it extremely convenient to upload & maintain contacts, compose media-rich SMS, and send smarter bulk SMS. Textlocal also provides free and flexible APIs to integrate SMS with any application/CRM. Our direct integration with multiple telecom operators and smart SMS gateway technology ensure best-in-class delivery for your bulk SMS campaigns. Textlocal is the highest rated bulk SMS service platform with 94% reviews rating it 5.0/5.0 on Trustpilot. Here are a few more reasons why SMEs & global enterprises love Textlocal.
How to send SMS online?
Follow the below steps to send bulk SMS online using Textlocal:
- Sign up for a free Textlocal account
- Buy SMS credits
- Add or upload contacts
- Compose your SMS in English or popular regional languages.
- Easily enrich your campaigns – personalize with merge fields, insert short links, attach files, send surveys and more! Schedule or send the message
- Track real-time delivery reports and advanced campaign click reports
How to receive SMS online?
Using an inbound long code (10-digit numbers),short code (5-9 digit numbers), missed call number or dual VMNS you can receive SMS from your customers. You can purchase either dedicated long/short codes or keywords on shared long/short codes to set up your SMS address and receive replies. It’s free for you to receive messages and only costs the customer their standard network cost. All messages will appear in your Textlocal account, so simply log in and view at your leisure. You can also choose to automatically forward all inbound messages to you via email for free.