Get your business a virtual phone number to send and receive SMS and text messages online for U.S. and Canadian phone numbers. Text from our website-based service or mobile apps.
A virtual SMS phone number enables your business to send and receive SMS text messages online over the internet without having to use a physical phone.
Given that one-third of consumers prefer to contact a business via text message over any other communication channel, having a text-enabled virtual phone number is a big part of meeting customer expectations.
Like a real phone number, your online virtual phone number is unique to your business. You can use your business’s existing phone number or get a new phone number to text online. If you choose a new virtual phone number, you can set up call forwarding to direct calls to a physical phone, too. Your virtual phone number allows you to send bulk SMS, receive SMS online, and respond to individuals. With a business text messaging platform like SimpleTexting, you can start texting from your virtual phone number to numbers in the U.S., Canada, and some mobile carriers in the Caribbean.
You can text-enable a current phone number, choose a new toll-free number, register a new 10-digit number with an area code local to your business, or apply to provision a dedicated short code.
“Instead of getting bogged-down in all the intricacies of setup on several other platforms, SimpleTexting allowed us to get up and running within the same day.”
Now that you have a virtual SMS phone number, you can send your first SMS — or MMS — message. You can text any number of contacts at once — from one to thousands.
“What I like about this software is that I am able to contact recruits without using my own telephone number. I am able to message recruits the same as on my personal phone, but I am not crowding up my personal messages app.”
Receive SMS and MMS messages for free and use our simple Inbox to manage your business’s two-way messaging.
“I would oftentimes need customers to send me photos of their equipment setup and I didn’t want to give out my personal phone number. This way I was able to have people message the business itself and not involve personal phone numbers.”
Whether your business needs to engage contacts 1-on-1 or send mass text marketing campaigns, our team can help you select the right virtual phone number.
“It is very user-friendly overall. Everything is clear and makes sense. You get an app on your phone that you can check any incoming messages from if you need to. You get your own phone number – great for businesses who are trying to implement SMS marketing!”
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“While looking for an SMS solution for our business, we were fortunate to come across SimpleTexting. From the ease of sign-up, the ability to use our existing toll-free vanity number, incredibly reasonable rates that can grow with your business, to the feature-packed application that you can use from a mobile device or desktop setting, there is no need to look any further.
We recommend SimpleTexting without hesitation and we see a long and successful relationship with this outstanding company.”
Find out why SimpleTexting is the best texting service to help you separate business texts from personal messages.
“It makes SMS and shortcodes easy to use and manage. Other software would entail months of setup for a shortcode. It’s all about convenience and efficiency. Also easy to create and schedule blasts to our clients and hot leads. THE CUSTOMER SERVICE IS AMAZING. We have never had a chat wait for more than 3 minutes.”
Below is a list of frequently asked questions regarding our virtual SMS mobile numbers.
The best service for nonprofit organizations
“This is the best messaging service that I have found for small nonprofit organizations. We only pay for what we use and they are very transparent about costs and fees. Previous services have surprised us with hidden fees and locked us into months of service, but not SimpleTexting. I love that we can use our landline number for texting. Plus, their customer service is personalized and excellent!”
Same-day setup
“I wanted something simple where I could use my business number for texting back and forth. From start to finish, the SAME DAY, these guys made it happen, and for a totally reasonable price. I can’t recommend them enough.”
Super helpful number setup
“It is great to break into different markets with a dedicated short code. SimpleTexting has been super helpful and very beneficial in helping us set this up. We love to see the data and subscription rates across different cities/markets/channels and SimpleTexting allows us to do that flawlessly.”
Easy to use
“I like how easy it is to use for the average office worker. We have never used a texting service before and I was able to set this up and use with our clients with minimal effort.”
