shikatext sends one message to every number on a list, the moment you hit send. Anyone who doesn't text gets the same message as an automated phone call that reads it aloud — so the people without a smartphone hear it too.
No monthly fee · No app for your members · Opt-outs handled for you
shikatextSHCHMinyan moved to 7:15 tomorrow morning.SHCHReminder: no early minyan on Friday.SHCHShabbos mincha is 4:40 this week.Shacharis via shikatext. Reply #mute shch for this list only, STOP for all.
Every list gets its first 500 texts each month at a flat rate. After that you pay what the carrier charges us, and nothing on top of it.
The first 500 texts each list sends in a month. Counted per recipient, so one announcement to 100 people is 100.
Exactly what the carrier bills us, settled against their own delivery report. It goes down if their rate does.
The same announcement, read aloud down the phone. Billed by the minute, also at carrier cost.
No monthly fee. Your first 500 texts a list each month are $0.015 each, then what the carrier charges us — about $0.0117 a text, $0.013 a minute for calls — and nothing on top of it. Top-ups add a 3% card processing fee. Every text a list sends counts toward the 500, including the automatic replies to STOP and #mute.
One address book for your whole account. Add a number once and put it on as many lists as you like — parents, members, staff, board.
Flip any contact from text to call. They get the identical message as a phone call that reads it out, twice, so nothing is missed.
Type it once, on the website or by text from your own phone. Every message is tagged with the list's code so people know which list it came from.
Mark a contact as call and the same announcement arrives as a spoken phone call — no smartphone, no app, no reading required.
Text #send shch Minyan at 7:15 from a number you approve,
reply #yes, and it goes. No login, no laptop.
Each list has its own four-letter code, shown on every message, so someone on four of your lists always knows which one just texted — and can quieten just that one.
Your contacts live in one place. Change someone's number or switch them to calls once, and every list they're on follows.
Upload a spreadsheet of names and numbers. You see exactly what will be added, and what looks wrong, before anything is saved.
STOP and START are recognized and answered automatically, immediately and permanently. Someone who only wants off one list replies #mute and stays on the others.
Per-recipient status for texts and calls alike, including failures with the carrier's own error text. No guessing whether it landed.
Messages leave one at a time rather than in a burst. Carriers treat a thousand identical texts fired in the same second as spam and quietly drop them; paced sending is what keeps announcements arriving.
Opt-outs are honored across every list on the platform. If someone replies STOP, they stop hearing from you — and from everyone else sending on this line — because that is what the carrier rules require, and what the person asking to be left alone actually meant.
No monthly fee, no contract, and no app for your members to install.
No monthly fee. Your first 500 texts a list each month are $0.015 each, then what the carrier charges us — about $0.0117 a text, $0.013 a minute for calls — and nothing on top of it.