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Boost your sales with SimpleTexting for e-commerce and retail

SMS Marketing for eCommerce & Retail

Use our e-commerce and retail SMS marketing tool in a new way to attract new customers, send personalized store promotions, reduce cart abandonment, and provide two-way customer support

  • Unlimited keywords and contacts
  • No long-term commitments
  • Technical support 7 days a week
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What is SMS Marketing for E-commerce and Retail?

SMS marketing for e-commerce and retail is a powerful way to connect with customers instantly through text messages. It allows businesses to send promotions, product updates, cart reminders, and exclusive offers directly to a shopper’s phone—driving engagement, conversions, and repeat purchases. With high open rates and fast delivery, SMS is one of the most effective tools for boosting sales and building customer loyalty in a crowded digital market.

Benefits of SMS marketing for e-commerce and retail businesses

Once you get started, you’ll likely discover even more advantages unique to your business. Until then, here are just a few key benefits you can expect from SMS marketing for e-commerce and retail:

  • Higher customer engagement, including faster feedback and stronger interactions
  • Unmatched reach across virtually any customer segment
  • Reduced reliance on time-consuming customer service calls through automated updates and support
  • Stronger appeal to mobile-first and millennial shoppers
  • Improved customer loyalty through consistent, personalized communication
  • Tailored notifications that feel relevant and timely
  • Lightning-fast response times compared to email or phone

Benefits of Exceptional Response Rates

of consumers have signed up to receive texts from businesses in the past year – 2024 Texting and SMS Marketing Statistics. You’ll reach your audience with text blasts.

of consumers check text notifications within 5 minutes of receiving a text blast – 2023 Texting and SMS Marketing Statistics. You’ll engage your audience with text blasts.

of consumers have purchased from a business after receiving a text from them – 2023 Texting and SMS Marketing Statistics. You’ll grow sales with text blasts.

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Key Features of SMS Marketing for E-commerce and Retail

Abandoned Cart Reminders

Automatically remind customers when they’ve left items behind—turning missed opportunities into sales.

Order & Shipping Notifications

Send real-time order confirmations, tracking updates, and delivery alerts to keep customers in the loop.

Personalized Promotions

Use customer data to send targeted discounts, product recommendations, and exclusive deals.

Time-Sensitive Flash Sales

Reach your entire list within minutes to promote limited-time offers and maximize urgency.

Two-Way Messaging

Let customers reply to texts for fast support, feedback, or to ask product questions.

Loyalty & VIP Campaigns

Reward repeat shoppers with early access to sales, birthday discounts, or special rewards via text.

Campaign Analytics & Reporting

Track clicks, delivery rates, and conversions so you can fine-tune every campaign.

Seamless Ecommerce Integrations

Connect with platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce to streamline your SMS workflows.
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Bring Texting into your E-commerce or Retail Business in Just 3 Steps

Try Us Free

1. Create an Account

Sign up for a SimpleTexting account. No credit card required or contracts required to begin your trial.

2. Add Contacts

Import your list of contacts in just a few clicks or setup a keyword and start growing your list.

3. Start Texting

When the setup is complete, you can register your number and start texting your real estate clients!
The texting platform that top retail and e-commerce brands trust

Designed for growing e-commerce and retail business

Our platform is easy to use, but we don’t skimp on the SMS marketing benefits we provide to busy e-commerce and retail businesses looking for specialized support, affordable pricing, and outstanding results.

Unlimited Keywords

Build your SMS contact list

Use our keywords and web forms to invite customers to get product alerts, sales notifications, or order updates.

  • Grow your list of contacts quickly
  • Collect phone numbers, emails, and more
  • Make subscribing to future SMS messages a breeze
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Mass Texting

Expand your reach with mass texting

Send messages and offers to large groups to get even more out of every SMS campaign.

  • Drive more retail and e-commerce business with sales and promotions
  • Get the word out about new products
  • Reach specific groups of customers, or an entire list
  • Compliment your email marketing efforts
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Autoresponders

Set communications on autopilot

Use autoresponders to streamline customer communications and elevate their experience.

  • Send promotions to specific customer segments
  • Keep customers up to date with order status updates and delivery notifications
  • Generate more reviews from satisfied customers
  • Reduce cart abandonment with personalized text reminders
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2-Way Messaging

Supercharge your sales and support

Resolve customer issues quickly and close more deals at the same time with text.

  • Save time with template replies
  • Stay organized with internal notes on conversations
  • Accelerate reply time and boost response rate by ditching emails
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Why retail businesses & online stores prefer SimpleTexting

Our dedicated dashboard keeps your inbox, mass texts, and automated SMS campaigns in one place so you spend less time searching for what you need and more time focused on your business goals and product sales.

Our stellar text support team is available seven days a week, and typically responds to questions within five minutes!

We’ll give you the tools to ensure every opt-in complies with federal regulations for SMS subscribers.

Attract shoppers with targeted campaigns and increase repeat customers with personalized follow-ups after the shopping experience.

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Unmatched integrations to get you started quickly

Customize your SMS platform with 1,000+ integrations including Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, MailChimp, Drip, and more.

Mailchimp

Got a Mailchimp account? Sync it with SimpleTexting and start sharing contacts between the two platforms.
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Zapier

Create automatic processes by connecting SimpleTexting to 1,000+ apps including Gmail, Facebook and more.
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Hubspot

Integrate HubSpot with SimpleTexting to send a text message for new form submissions, contacts, tickets, calendar tasks, and more.
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Salesforce

Integrate Salesforce with SimpleTexting to automatically add new Salesforce leads to a SimpleTexting list and send them text messages.
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SMS API

Add texting capabilities to your existing system through our powerful API. Together we’ll build beautiful SMS-enabled products.
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Don’t just take our word for it

See what real retail and e-comm businesses have to say about us.

SimpleTexting is the perfect partner and technology tool

I like the immediate feedback that I see from my customers once I send out any type of campaign. Once I set up a campaign, I usually hit my sales target within a few days if not immediately that day.

Michael B G2 Review

Texting customers is a common sense decision

We set up the widget, created a 10% discount for subscribers, and the code has generated an extra $7,028.01 in store revenue within 30 days. That’s a 156x return on the cost of sending the texts–we recommend it! This incredible ROI demonstrates the effectiveness of our SMS marketing strategies.

Walter Castillo Toroe Eyewear

We find that people are actively waiting for the text

I would say that easily our conversion rate on a text is about 25%. That’s huge compared to any other channel.

Matt Davis Whiskey Seeker Tackle

Text messages are great for promoting sales or special offers

To routinely get half the people on a marketing list to buy, let’s say that’s not what you see with email.

Shannon Green Welstand Boutique

We’ve helped thousands of e-commerce and retail brands start texting

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