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.

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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

Love Textedly!

We are loving being able to communicate with several different groups associated with our non-profit organization. It's so quick and easy.

Ashley A.
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Travel Agent

Mass Texting Made Easy

I like that it lets me upload mass lists for my customers to get hit with updates of texts almost instantly.

Tyler M.
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Executive Assistant

Easy to implement and integrate

I like how I am able to message many people in a short time frame. The mass-contact upload also makes this software easy to implement and integrate.

Hospital & Health
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System User
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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. Sign up for a 14-day free trial with Textedly to start scheduling texts today.