Welcome to Church Office Online’s full featured text messaging solution.
A Text Messaging solution is a communication priority for today’s church. Our Text Messaging feature is easy to use, powerful and fast.
Just imagine the communication benefits your church will receive by using our text messaging feature. The sanctuary is flooded, and you need help, you select your men’s ministry and send them a text message, “Sanctuary Flooded we can use your help” in just seconds your message is received. A member in your church is in the hospital and needing prayer, you send a Prayer Alert and in seconds your church is praying. The scenarios are unlimited.
Text Messaging is a utility which can deal with urgent messages in a discrete way. Also referred to as SMS (Short Message Service), it is the most inexpensive and widespread choice today. Email requires an internet connection, but an SMS can be sent anywhere and anytime, as long as your phone has signal. Also a person is more likely to check their phone than their computer so your text message is more likely to be read more quickly than an email.
Video Tutorial
Step-by-Step Instructions
The Text Messaging feature can easily be found in your Church Membership Online program in CHURCH under the Communication section.
- Enter your text message into the TEXT MESSAGE field. Note that Text Messages are limited to 120 characters. (For example, you could enter: “Thursday’s leadership meeting has been moved from 7pm to 8pm.”)
- Select the individuals you would like to send the Text Message to. We offer three options to send messages to: A ministry or ministries, one or more individuals, and every individual in your church. Note that it can only send to mobile phone numbers placed in the mobile phone field of individual records.
- Click the “Send Messages” button. Once you do you will receive a confirmation that your message was sent and how many messages were sent. Your message should reach the recipient’s mobile phones in seconds.
When your text message is received it will be preceded by the phone number of our sending center and the text will contain your church name followed by the text message. We have also added an option for individuals in their record to be excluded from Text Messages, simply check the box in the Options tab titled “Exclude from Text Messages”.
Cost
Our Text Messaging feature is free up to the limit of active records you have in your Church Membership Online program. So if you have a limit of 275 active records in your Church Membership Online program you will get 275 free text messages to send each month at no additional cost to you.
A provision will be made so you can buy more text messages which will supplement your level amount when you need more at any time. Note: many churches are saving money by using this utility instead of a phone calling services.
Thanks,
Church Office Online