Your employee text messaging system for fast and easy communication
Get in touch with your employees wherever they are using our employee texting platform.
- Send urgent messages off-site and off-hours
- Coordinate quickly across departments and locations
- Contact employees and candidates using a communication method they prefer
No credit card required
The world's leading brands trust SimpleTexting to reach their employees
What is an employee texting app?
An employee texting app makes it possible for companies to text team members individually or all at once with mass texts.
How to send employee text messages
It’s easy to send a text message to your whole organization, your team, or just one of your employees. Follow these six steps:
1. Choose your employee text messaging system
2. Pick your texting number
3. Upload your contact list
Write your text
Send, schedule, or automate your text
Reply as needed
“I love being able to reach many of our partners in just a few simple steps.”
Janet Broadrick
NHC
What to send through an employee text messaging system
One of the biggest perks of employee text messaging is that you can use it for a variety of use cases depending on your needs. Here are some of the most popular we’ve seen among our users.
Meeting all-calls and reminders
Keep meeting attendance high and your team in the loop by sending out text reminders ahead of important meetings (virtual or otherwise). You can even schedule these messages to send automatically at a set date and time so you can set them and forget them.“We’ve seen about an 88% retention rate in terms of our clients coming back to our meetings on a regular basis.”
Scott Powell
Alabama Head Injury Foundation
Shift scheduling
Switching shifts can be a headache if you’re coordinating with a traditional group chat. With an employee texting platform, you can send out a mass text with the shifts you need covered and coordinate with individual employees through the inbox to get scheduling done faster and more efficiently.“We see a response rate 3-4x higher on our texts than emails. More importantly, we can see an uptick in filled shifts when we text a group of nurses about a particular facility.”
Melanie Mathews
IntelyCare
Emergency notifications
Don’t get caught without a way to communicate with your team when things go wrong. Whether it’s a fire, inclement weather, power outage, or other emergency, you can trigger an emergency alert text to relevant team members.“The ability to stay in touch with our employees 24/7 has been critically important for us and our business.”
Julie Sheedy
Loretto
Employee education
If your industry requires continuing education to maintain licensing (like real estate), you can send links to courses, registration pages, or event sign-up forms to help your employees stay current.“I find that texting reaches more people. And when the goal is to get more people signed up and out to events, it just gets done with texting.”
Rebecca Saltsman
Allies For Every Child
Off-site employee communications
While off-site employees may not be next to their computers, 43% of SMS users check text messages more than ten times a day, so they’re likely to have their phones within arm’s reach. Text your employees wherever they are with important updates or questions.“Our employees are on roofs. They’re busy. We often can’t reach them by phone and sending a text is much easier than leaving a voicemail and maybe getting a call back a day later.”
Kayleena Iorio
Simon Roofing
Newsletters and company updates
Visibility is important in every organization, and you can easily let your staff know about company-wide news or regular updates with a brief text. Include the news in your text itself or add a link to your favorite update page.“Some of our staff doesn’t check their email as often, so texting allowed our staff to get that information in a more timely manner and just at their fingertips rather than having to open up an email.”
Kellsie Wells
Nuclear Care Partners
Hiring and recruiting
Advertise open positions, make it easy for candidates to apply, and simplify async conversations with our text messaging recruiting software. Your candidates will appreciate it – one in five people would rather text a potential employer than call or email them.“With SimpleTexting, we have seen a tremendous increase in our job fair participation.”
April Dossey
Workforce Solutions for the Heart of Texas
Fast and convenient
G2
Easy team communication
G2
Efficient and user-friendly
Trustpilot
We love scheduling
Trustpilot
Why use an employee text message app?
Employee messaging apps like SimpleTexting streamline and organize texting through features like:
Two-way and mass texts
BCC text messages
Group texts without reply all
Separate work texts
Record of communication
Multiple team member access
Internal notes
Fast and easy texting
“It’s common sense. So many people are texting now. Even my grandmother prefers to text than call. It’s a very easy form of communication.”
Dr. Keith Hnilica
Owner of The Itch Clinic
All of your employees text
Make it easier and faster for your team to get back to you by using one of their priority platforms – texting.
It’s already a habit for them
They read text messages quickly
Texts are one of their preferred ways to talk to you
All of your employees will get your texts
They open your texts
Texts work well for break times and after hours
They want to get your texts
Real results from customers who use our employee text messaging system
How IntelyCare Uses SimpleTexting to Support Its Rapid Growth
IntelyCare has gone from strength to strength, raising an impressive $45 million at the start of this year. As the company expands across America, here’s how it’s using text messages to communicate with its database of nurses.
Read their success story
NHC Manages Their 50 Locations Through One SMS Platform
Janet Broadrick has mastered the art of internal communications with a distributed workforce. Learn about how she uses SMS.
Read their success story
Keeping Union Members in the Loop with Text Message Reminders
People rarely ignore a text. Here’s how the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers used that fact to revamp their event reminder system.
Read their success storyEmployee texting app FAQs
Still got questions about employee text alerts? You’re not alone. Here are some of the most common questions we’ve heard on the subject.
What is employee SMS?
Can you send text messages to employees?
How can text messages be used to communicate with employees?
What do companies use to communicate with employees?
How do I send a mass text to all employees?
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