• set a start time and an end time and the system starts and ends your service automatically.
  
• Create a dynamic link and make your votes/entry results publicly available to users or forums on an ongoing basis.
  
• Configure how many votes/entries each person can make.
  
• Use reverse billing between 25p and £10 per vote/entry.
  
• View all results online after closing or request the top 3 results be sent to your mobile automatically along with a pre-selected random winners phone number.
  
• Our system can choose a winner for you - or simply download the results and pick them with an adjudicator.
  
• Run up to 3 competitions at the same time.

Your account can easily be configured to send automated text message replies telling the end user if they are correct or not. You can also specify the reply to be free of charge or at a premium cost between 25p and £10.

Demo Screenshot (click to enlarge):

Voting by text message isn't limited to just corporate events or to TV and Radio shows - even smaller businesses like bars and clubs are using text voting for such things as "Battle of the Bands", "Miss Wet T Shirt" and "Karaoke Finals".

Many venues simply want to generate a revenue toward paying for events whilst capturing a database of mobile numbers for future text marketing. Others just wish to provide a fair customer interaction rather than having individual biased judges.

The Features.

• Set up a raffle easily and decide how many tickets are available
  
• Tickets are only received by the user once a payment has been confirmed.
   
• Monitor ticket sales in real time.
   

Staying Legal.
Unlike text competitions, where an "element of skill" is involved, the laws surrounding raffles is entirely different.

In some cases commercial raffles may need a Lottery Licence and we advise you read the documentation on the Gambling Commission website before deciding to offer a raffle, either by Text Message or otherwise

 

The idea of reverse auctions is that rather than putting in a highest bid as with a normal auction, you have to put in the lowest bid. That bid also must be unique one. At the end of the auction, the winner (the person with the lowest unique bid)  wins the prize, by simply paying their winning bid.

The end user simply texts your keyword and a bid in pence to enter - your service will take control of letting each entrant know by text message if their bid is unique, not unique, is the lowest unique bid etc. When a user is outbid they are also notified.

Why use Textvertising for a Reverse Auction?

• We offer a unique service to check bids are fair when using premium rate (where the end user pays a fee to bid). When a bid is placed, the handset is billed. If for some reason the handset does not have enough credit, the bid is "held" for a period of 3 days in the system whilst more attempts are made to bill the handset. Once billing occurs, the bid is placed. If the handset cannot be billed after a mandatory network retry period of 72 hours, the bid is dropped. This ensures that only bids are placed where the end user has paid their fee.
  
• New bids cannot be placed after the closing time, but bids still active in the retry system are held for up to 3 days from the closing date to ensure the service is fair to all who take part.
  
• Many providers do not offer such a service and bids placed that cannot be billed before the closing time are lost. This is even if they are billed afterward, which can lead to legal issues. Our service prevents such an issue
  
• Finally. Anyone placing a bid is given a unique ID which relates to their mobile number. Every bid they make prompts a response or a "receipt" for that bid as a reply SMS. At the end of the auction, the results can be displayed to all who have taken part so they can see the status of their bid relative to everyone else by referencing the ID. In this way, the results can be shown, without infringing any data protection rules.