With a paid plan your texts go out from your own toll-free number, with your business name on every message. Phone carriers check that a number belongs to a real business before it can send. Here is what that looks like, start to finish.
Your own number comes with a paid plan. On the free trial you can still build lists, write drafts and send one trial message to yourself and up to 4 teammates.
Carriers approve each kind of text separately: offers and news to your list, reminders about an event someone chose, or updates about something they bought or booked. Choose only what you'll really send, with an example of each. Replying to people who text you first is always allowed and needs nothing.
Carriers want to see where people agree to each kind of text. Ayo! gives you the wording for each box, and checks each sign-up page before anything is sent to them.
Give Ayo! your website and it reads the site and fills in what it finds. You check every answer. Carriers compare the form with your website, so the two need to match.
This usually takes 3 to 5 business days. Until then you can build lists and drafts, and send test messages to your own phone.
Your texts now go out from your own toll-free number, with your business name on every message. Anyone who texts it lands in your Inbox.
It happens, and it is fixable. Ayo! tells you in plain words what to change, and the steps show what is done and what is left. Your answers are saved as you go. Carriers keep a correction's place in the queue for 7 days, so it is worth doing soon.
We cannot promise a date. The carriers decide, and some businesses take longer than others. We tell you as soon as they answer.