Schedule a Text Message With Our SMS Scheduler

Scheduling a text message with Textedly takes just a few steps — write your message, choose your recipients, and set your send time. Your audience gets it exactly when you want them to.

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Scheduled Text: What is it?

With a scheduled text, or “delayed text”, you compile your messages in advance and select the date and time the message gets sent. Once the scheduled date and time approaches, the texting platform sends out your scheduled text message.

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Why schedule a text message?

The main benefit of scheduled text messaging is helping your business prepare messages days, weeks, or even months before. Then, sending these scheduled texts on your timeline.

Scheduling text messages in advance also include these benefits:

Providing you time to carefully craft up the perfect text;

Scheduling repeat messages sent by the hour, day, month, or yearly;

Editing or canceling anytime to adjust your message or dealing with canceled events;

Never forget to send important reminders;

Pre-planning seasonal SMS marketing campaigns;

Important deadlines notifications as urgent alerts to employees before a deadline;

Reducing no-shows and missed appointments saves you time and money;

Improve organization with scheduled text reminders to suppliers, delivery services, staff, and customers

Reaching out to clients at convenient times based on your collected data about them.

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How to schedule a text with Textedly

Scheduled texting helps remind customers of appointments, meetings, and events. SMS marketing platforms like Textedly allow you to easily schedule customized messages to individuals or a group. Our built-in calendar feature lets you schedule a single message to an individual subscriber at a specific date and time - perfect for appointment reminders or upcoming events.

In just three easy steps with Textedly, you can schedule a text message. Simply compose your text message, schedule a date and time, and send.

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Compose Text Message

First, you will need to compose your text message that you would like to send. Typically, the most characters (including text and links) you have to compose a text message is 160. Your text message must be simple and concise within the 160 characters limit.

With Textedly, you're never boxed in. Craft and schedule messages up to 1,600 characters, with room for all the detail your campaign needs.

2

Choose 'Send Later'

Schedule your text message to send any time. You can always change the scheduled date before it sends.

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Send Scheduled Text

You don't need to do anything more. Your message will be sent automatically on your scheduled date.

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Why Users Love Textedly

Textedly Away!!!!

Whether you need to send a mass text to 10, 100 or 500 people, this app is for you! Simply select the contacts you would like to text, type your message, and TEXTEDLY AWAY!!!!

Samuel S.
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President

Really Enjoy Using Textedly

I really enjoy using Textedly for our small but growing company. It allows us to communicate with all our employees with the ease of not having to make calls over and over again.

Michelle D.
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Human Resources Director

Best for Marketing & Review Management

Textedly allows you to really customize the campaigns you’re sending, who you’re sending them to, when they go out, and much more. We have retained many customers and generated revenue from Textedly.

Joleen S.
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Senior Marketing Director
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Understanding Scheduled Text Message Types

We offer three scheduled text message types. They include scheduled texts, unique reminders, and autoresponders.

Start Scheduling Text Messages With Textedly

Don’t wait until the last minute to start scheduling text messages. Great marketers like to think, write, and edit before publishing. Take advantage of our automated text messaging scheduling platform to plan ahead. Create a free Textedly account to start scheduling texts today.