SMS Marketing Features and Capabilities

Integrated with the marketing tools you use

Creating visually appealing MMS Marketing content is more important than ever.

Integrated with Canva, the popular graphic design tool.
Easily access your Canva designs in DailyStory.
Or, easily access the design in Canva to make edits.

Compliance Management for 10DLC, TCPA and More

Successful SMS Marketing requires navigating the complexities of 10DLC, carrier violations, and other SMS marketing compliance requirements.

Audit logging, opt-in/opt-out management, and expertise in carrier filtering.
Expertise in 10DLC registration.
We’ll take you step-by-step through each process to get the best delivery rates.

Two-way Conversational Messaging

Your customers can reply to your text messages and you have multiple options for how to handle those replies.

DailyStory Text Message Conversation view.
Automate replies based on words/phrases.
Integrate with one of our support management partners, such as Gorgias.

Measure how SMS marketing turn into sales and conversions

Conversion-tracking answers the question, “How effective is my SMS marketing?”

Includes Shopify, WooCommerce and other popular ecommerce platforms.
Or, add custom conversion tracking with your own platform.
See how individual campaigns turn SMS marketing into revenue.

More DailyStory SMS Marketing Capabilities

Scroll through a quick tour to preview more of our SMS marketing features.

Get Started for Free

Start for free and upgrade as your business, team, and customer-base grows. Our free plan includes 250 contacts and 500 email sends per-month along with 50 SMS credits.

Simple and Easy to Understand Text Message Pricing

Start for free with 50 text message credits included. Then you either use the pay-as-you-go rate or pre-purchase monthly text message credits at a discount. You only pay for outbound messages. Inbound messages from your customers are always free.

The Highest SMS Marketing Delivery Rates

Getting you the highest deliverability rate for your messages is our #1 priority. We help navigate the complexities of text messaging and the nuances of how carriers view your message. Whether is it choosing the right sending number, warming up your campaign or navigating 10DLC. We’re here to help!

Auto-generate SMS Content with AI Assistant

Creating content for your next SMS marketing campaign can be time-consuming and frustrating. With DailyStory’s built-in ChatGPT writing assistant you can create dozens of marketing text messages in seconds.

Optimize SMS using Deliverability Score

We’ve built a SMS deliverability score tool to help determine if your content will pass carrier filtering rules. The wrong content will cause carrier violations and prevent your message from being delivered.

Reports on Key Metrics

DailyStory’s reports provide insights into delivery, sent, clicks, opt-outs and more. All reports support exporting your data to Excel or Google Sheets as a comma separated value (CSV) file.

Track SMS Clicks with URL Shorteners for Precise Analytics

DailyStory’s built in URL shortener creates a unique URL for each text message marketing recipient. And eliminates the need to use public URL shorteners like bit.ly (which will get your message blocked). Use our private shortening domains or bring your own domain. Your URLs can contain all the UTM codes, affiliate ids and whatever else you need to track your sales and conversions.

Send Transactional and Marketing Messages with Ease

DailyStory can send your transactional (abandon cart, order shipped, one time password) and marketing messaging while ensuring full compliance. Each message type support full personalization so you can provide your customer a personalized experience.

Smart Number Area Code Routing

With local number routing, DailyStory matches a sending number with the recipient’s number based on the area code. Creating both better deliverability and higher open rates.

Automate Text Message Replies for Instant Customer Engagement

Automated replies are as simple as replies for certain keywords or as complex as interactive surveys. Easily create automated replies that answer common questions such as sending your stores address, update on orders, and more.

Master Your Campaigns with Comprehensive Keyword Management

Easily setup keywords for opt-in with auto-responder messages. Or, automatically add senders to campaign and run automations after the keyword is received. There is no limit on the number of keywords you can create and use.

SMS Opt-in Management

Support for opt-in and double opt-in using any of DailyStory’s inbound customer acquisition tools (Popups, Magic Forms, and Web Forms). Includes full audit-logging and pre-built double opt-in templates.

SMS Opt-out Management

Automatic opt out management using reserved words (STOP, QUIT, etc.), manual opt-out, and AI driven opt-out based on more colorful responses. All opt-out activity is logged in an audit log for compliance purposes.

Do Not Contact

DailyStory maintains an audit trail of who has unsubscribed or was listed as do not contact in your SMS marketing list. The system then ensures these people cannot be texted again, but still remain in your system to ensure they can’t accidentally be re-added.

Personalized Text Messages

Make your message standout by using personalization in your SMS marketing. Use any custom field you’ve imported or brought in from an integration. For example, include a Shopify abandon cart URL.

Boost Engagement with MMS Marketing: Send Picture Messages

Using images in you SMS marketing is a great way to engage customers. And, DailyStory fully supports multi-media text messages (MMS). Additionally DailyStory will store and host your image on our content distribution network (CDN) and optimize the size of the image for text messaging.

A/B Test SMS Marketing

Use A/B testing in your SMS marketing to determine which messages perform best with customers. Then, let DailyStory choose the winner and send your messages.

Scheduled or Automated Sends

Easily schedule and send text messages to different lists of customers (segments). Or, use automations and flows to automatically send text messages based on conditions or triggers that happen within your campaigns.

Powerful Audience Segmentation

DailyStory’s audience segmentation tool enables you to organize your SMS marketing list by any criteria: product purchased, geo-targeting, campaigns participating in, or virtually any other data you can bring in to the DailyStory platform.

Use Emojis in your SMS Marketing

Include emojis in the body of your text message to help it standout on your recipient’s device. Just use our emoji picker when writing your email or copy/paste your own.

Developer Friendly

Use DailyStory’s APIs to send scheduled or transactional text messages.

SMS Marketing Experts – Here to Help!

Our SMS marketing experts are here to help you run the best possible SMS marketing campaign.

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Frequently Asked Questions about SMS Marketing

Below are some frequently asked questions about DailyStory’s SMS Marketing capabilities.

What is SMS marketing?

Simply put, SMS marketing is a type of digital marketing that communicates promotions, sales, and other updates through text messages to mobile devices.

Does DailyStory maintain an opt-out audit log?

Yes, DailyStory maintains an audit trail of who has unsubscribed or was listed as do not contact in your SMS marketing list. The system then ensures these people cannot be texted again, but still remain in your system to ensure they can’t accidentally be re-added.

What is SMS marketing software?

SMS marketing software enables businesses to create, send, and track SMS messages sent to their subscribers. With DailyStory, you can track clicks and purchases from campaigns sending email.

What is a carrier violation in SMS marketing?

A carrier violation occurs when carriers (such as Verizon, AT&T and such) receive an outbound SMS and opt to not deliver the message to the destination phone number.

How much does SMS marketing cost to get started?

You can start for free with up to 50 SMS messages and upgrade to a paid plan when you need to.

Is there support for common keywords for opt in and opt out?

Yes, DailyStory includes standard carrier keyword support: JOIN, START, and OPTIN. But, unlike other SMS marketing platforms, we allow you to add an unlimited number of keywords.

What is SMS messaging?

SMS messaging (Short Message Service) is a method of sending text messages between mobile phones or other devices. It’s one of the most widely used forms of communication, allowing users to send short, plain-text messages (up to 160 characters per message) over mobile networks.