Push vs texting
Every channel a local business gets sold — texts, loyalty add-ons, contact lists — is priced so that reaching more of your own customers costs you more money. Before you're even allowed to send a text, there's carrier registration, brand vetting and monthly fees. Notifications from your own app skip all of it: unlimited, included, no phone number, no paperwork.
Both put a message on the same phone. Only one of them charges you every time you use it.
We're not asking you to replace them. Your point-of-sale is good at taking orders and you should keep it. But the marketing, loyalty and messaging modules bolted onto those platforms are billed the way everything else is billed — by plan tier, by contact, or by message — so your marketing cost rises with your success. We're the add-on that doesn't do that.
Plan names, tiers and add-on prices change often and vary by contract, so we don't quote other companies' numbers here. Pull out your last statement, find the line items for marketing, loyalty, email or SMS, and compare that to a flat monthly plan with unlimited notifications.
"Application-to-person messaging over 10-digit long codes." It's the system US carriers require businesses to register with before sending marketing texts from a normal phone number. It means brand vetting, campaign approval, and carrier fees on top of what your texting vendor charges you.
Texts are billed in segments. A long message, an emoji or a photo can turn one message into several billable ones — multiplied by every person on your list.
Most marketing tools charge by how many contacts you have. Your bill goes up as your marketing works, which is exactly backwards.
The open browser standard your app uses. Notifications go from your app to the phone's notification screen — no phone number, no carrier, no per-message charge.
Send us your website. We'll build your app, you'll try it on your own phone, and you pay only if you decide to launch it.
No card, no obligation, no per-message fees ever.