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SMS Text Chat - Overview  
 
 
What is an SMS Text Chat Service?
SMS Text Chat allows you to interact with end users using text messaging. Text chat services are extremely popular and are advertised regularly on TV channels such as Men and Motors.

Where can I use a text chat service?

Text Chat services are extremely popular. Textvertising provide a fully operable text chat service that you (or an number of operators) can log into online and immediately respond to incoming messages. These can be free of charge, at a premium cost and you can send text, pictures or video clips.

More an more people are becoming interactive with their mobile phone and "text chat" is now clearly recognised as the dominant service.

Text chat services have expanded dramatically over the last few years. Many new services now offer flirt text, gay chat, tarot readings, racing tips, directory enquiry services - even the "any question answered" service is chat based.

 
 
 
 
 

 

SMS Text Chat In More Detail  
 


What rates can Textvertising provide?

Textvertising offer text chat at £1.50 per message.

However, you can configure how many replies each end user is entitled to. This value can be set between 1 and 5. This means that although the end user is paying £1.50 to use the service they could be entitled to receive up to 5 replies for that (effectively costing 30p per message). This would be advertised as "service costs 30p per message billed in £1.50 increments.

How does text chat work?
You create a chat user form your main account and give this user their own password. That user logs in with your username but their new password.

The chat admin screen has been developed to make managing incoming messages really easy. All new messages are grouped together showing the clients unique ID (which remains the same), the time the message was received and the message  sent.

The image below show exactly how the chat service looks.

The green boxes indicate what each part means.

How the Textvertisig text chat service looks and functions


The system retrieves a list of all messages sent to that handset from past conversations and threads them together ("Chat log with this person" above) so you can easily see what conversation has taken place previously. This is especially handy when dealing with many users as it would otherwise be very difficult to remember what has been said to any end user, especially if it has been a number of days since their last text.

We also lock numbers to the service for up to  to 7 days. This means that an end user does not have to repeatedly use this initial keyword next time they reply.

What else do I need to know before I get started?
Take a look at our Premium Rate Messaging page which gives help and guidelines on usage of premium rate services, how they are regulated and information on compliance with the regulatory guidelines.

How else can Textvertising help?
We do offer consistent advice on running an SMS text chat service and methods are built into our software to help protect you from doing something wrong.

How much revenue do I receive?
Take a look at our Premium Rate Messaging page which gives more information.

Service Costs
Depending on usage, our entry level individual chat plan costs just £24.99 per month whereas a fully commercial licensed service for Television and high profile marketing costs typically £950 per annum allowing up to 100 simultaneous users.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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