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TL;DRBest for Hands-On Support: Mobile Text AlertsAs one wise Redditor summed it up:
“You’ve just got to keep getting your product out there for people to see. Marketing is the key to success in digital businesses.” (Source)
Because what’s the point of your carefully crafted ebook, templates, or online course if nobody even knows it exists? How do you expect them to buy it?
Now here’s the fun part: while social feeds scroll past and inboxes overflow, SMS cuts through the noise like nothing else. One survey showed that 86% of people reported having bought something at least twice, specifically because they received a text message from a brand.
Imagine launching a product and people actually buy it… not just hoping they do.
But don’t mistake SMS as the plain text you see; there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. Think: cart recovery texts that nudge buyers before they forget, launch day reminders that feel like VIP invites, and personal 1:1 convos that build trust without burning you out.
Here are 7 SMS marketing tools to help influencers like you sell your digital products where people really are.
Mobile Text Alerts – all-things SMS, automations, AI, iMessage, no hidden fees
SlickText – beginner-friendly, great for list growth
Mailchimp – email + SMS under one roof, but pricier
Klaviyo – data-rich automations, best for advanced funnels
EZ Texting – simple setup, credits can vanish fast
Textmagic – pay-as-you-go, adds up at scale
Postscript – Shopify-first SMS, US/CA focus
If you want one tool that packs everything into a no-fuss platform, Mobile Text Alerts leads the pack. It’s a favorite for creators who want to get their digital products in front of the right people without wrestling with complicated tools, and who like getting things done on the go.
Remember those cart nudges and launch-day VIP reminders we talked about? Mobile Text Alerts does all of that — plus adds AI, analytics, and iMessage support on top.
The ‘everything’ SMS platform offers mass messaging, MMS campaigns, a mobile app, and an API. You can quickly create contact cards, send surveys, schedule automated drip campaigns, and automate processes. You can set up smart replies with AI chatbots, personalize your messages, and respond in two-way text conversations.
You get easy-to-understand analytics to track key engagement metrics such as delivery rates, message success, click-through rates, A/B test results, and subscriber growth to set your marketing in the right direction.
Besides these, it boasts of a strong customer support team and fast onboarding that makes adapting the tool easy for busy influencers like you.
It also stands out for its predictable, transparent pricing, rollover texts, and a complete feature stack across all plans.
Mobile Text Alert offers a 14-day free trial with full-feature access and no credit card requirement. It offers extensive features to help you get started, like:
The basic plan starts at $20/month, billed annually (saving you 20–25% compared to monthly billing). You essentially get all the features with all the plans; only your message count changes as you upgrade.
All plans come with a dedicated number, unlimited rollover of unused credits, live chat support (with priority support for messages above 20,000), no carrier fees, custom API, full integration support, and text automation).
Messages per Month | Monthly Price | Annual Price |
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500 | $25 | ~$20 |
1,000 | $44 | ~$36 |
2,000 | $74 | ~$58 |
5,000 | $149 | ~$119 |
10,000 | $274 | ~$219 |
20,000 | $499 | ~$389 |
50,000 | $1,074 | ~$874 |
Enterprise | Custom pricing | Custom pricing |
G2: 4.6/5
GetApp: 4.5/5
Software Advice: 4.5/5
Capterra: 4.5/5
While SlickText is a popular tool, it becomes expensive when used for high-volume messaging needs. It also comes with a carrier fee and has limited MMS customization. Plus, there’s no mobile app for those who are constantly working on the go.
On the connectivity side, SlickText provides an SMS API and extensive integrations via Zapier as well as native integrations with HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, and Shopify.
SlickText offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. Plans under 3,500 messages (starting at $129/month) do not include 1-on-1 onboarding. Higher-tier plans with 25,000+ messages ($579/month) include a dedicated customer success manager.
Messages per Month | Monthly Price | Annual Price |
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500 | $29 | $25 |
1,000 | $49 | $42 |
2,000 | $79 | $67 |
3,500 | $129 (includes onboarding) | $110 |
5,000 | $169 | $144 |
10,000 | $319 | $271 |
25,000 | $579 (includes Success Manager) | $492 |
50,000 | $939 | $797 |
Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
G2: 4.8/5
GetApp: 4.8/5
Software Advice: 4.8/5
Capterra: 4.8/5
Mailchimp is an email marketing platform that offers SMS marketing as an add-on for its paid plans (Essentials or higher plans) only in selected countries. It is best suited for businesses that require comprehensive marketing support but have minimal SMS marketing needs. It finds a place in the list due to its popularity and comprehensiveness in terms of your overall marketing stack.
It is a great tool, but using its SMS marketing needs some due diligence.
To access Mailchimp's SMS marketing, you must apply and agree to its terms before purchasing SMS credits, which is okay. However, the catch is that you can only send messages to contacts located in the same country as your SMS marketing program.
For example, if you set Australia as your sending country, only +61 contacts are eligible—basically, no international SMSing.
Mailchimp offers a free plan with email support for the initial 30 days. The Essential plan includes 24/7 email and chat support, but with minimal reporting, analytics, and four marketing automation flows. The Standard is the best value plan, offering Gen AI features, advanced segmentation & reporting, personalized onboarding, and enhanced automations.
Plan | Monthly Price (Starting) | Contacts Included |
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Free | $0/mo (limit 500 contacts) | 500 max |
Essentials | Starting at $8.75/month | 500 |
Standard | Starting at $13.07/month | 500 |
Premium | $261.37/month | 10,000 |
G2: 4.3/5
GetApp: 4.5/5
Software Advice: 4.5/5
Capterra: 4.5/5
Klaviyo is a marketing automation and CRM tool that offers SMS marketing services focusing on data-driven personalization, AI assistants, global SMS reach, omnichannel insight, and compliance tools. It primarily targets ecommerce businesses and is a great tool, but only when you have learned to use it.
It requires a deep understanding of the systems that connect within your marketing ecosystem. Setting up and managing flows demands a significant amount of time and effort, which is why people sometimes hire a part-time staff member to manage Klaviyo. Despite these challenges, Klaviyo, being a data-driven tool, helps you with cross-selling strategies as well.
Klaviyo has a free plan, which only gives you 150 free SMS credits and limited access features to try.
If you need marketing analytics, you’ll have to pay an additional $100 per month. Similarly, for built-in product reviews, you’ll have to pay $25/month and $500/month for advanced features like data tools.
Plan Type | Monthly Cost (Starting) | Email Volume | SMS/MMS Credits |
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Free | $0 | 500 emails/month | 150 SMS |
Email Only | $20 (251–500 profiles) | 5,000 emails/month | Add-ons only |
Email + SMS | $35 (251–500 profiles) | 5,000 emails/month | 1,250 SMS included |
G2: 4.6/5
GetApp: 4.6/5
Software Advice: 4.6/5
Capterra: 4.6/5
EZ Texting’s SMS marketing platform is built for small businesses and organizations that need fast, effective communication tools. It provides essentials like bulk texting, two-way messaging, SMS campaign management, and SMS reports.
Its AI message generator, Shutterstock-powered MMS editor, and drag-and-drop automation flows make it attractive for influencers who need polished campaigns without advanced technical skills.
EZ Texting offers a 14-day free trial without a credit card. The Launch plan costs $20 for 6k yearly credits. The Boost plan, despite being $60, offers the same number of credits. Besides this, there are overage credit charges that can increase your cost exponentially, if not strictly monitored.
Plan | Monthly Price | Annual Price (If Paid Yearly) |
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Launch | $25 | $20/month |
Boost | $75 | $60/month |
Scale | $125 | $100/month |
Enterprise | $3,000 | $3,000/month |
G2: 4.5/5
GetApp: 4.4/5
Software Advice: 4.4/5
Capterra: 4.4/5
Textmagic is an email and SMS marketing tool with a focus on generating revenue for its users. It combines SMS and email marketing for cohesive targeting, manages two-way conversations (across SMS, live chat, and social media), and monitors performance through real-time analytics.
One big drawback of Textmagic is that it offers limited MMS functionality. For each MMS sent or received, you are charged $0.08 per MMS, which is a significantly high amount to pay. In comparison, Mobile Text Alerts and SlickText charge only 3 credits.
Textmagic offers a free plan with very limited credits to send SMS. It has no pricing tiers but only one ‘pay-as-you-go’ plan where you pay for everything you use.
For example, for one outbound SMS, you pay $0.049, and for MMS, you pay $0.08. For each outbound email, you pay $0.006, and for voice calls $0.041.
While this method of billing may seem simple, it adds up quickly, unlike packages where you know the limits and are notified beforehand of exhausting credits or usage, as is done by Mobile Text Alerts.
Plan | Monthly Price | Annual Price | What It Includes |
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Pay-As-You-Go | $0.049 per SMS + phone number fees | $0.049 per SMS + phone number fees | • $0.049/SMS via TextMagic numbers • $0.01/SMS via CPaaS providers • $0.08/MMS • Free inbound SMS • Credits roll over |
G2: 4.5/5
Capterra: 4.6/5
Software Advice: 4.6/5
GetApp: 4.6/5
Postscript specializes in SMS marketing for ecommerce brands, particularly those using Shopify. Non-Shopify users require adding the SDK to their own shop’s code.
It combines AI-driven insights, automation tools, and SMS sales with marketing to help you drive revenue. You get features to manage sales via SMS, offer cashbacks using CashBack, and a Shopper AI assistant.
Postscript offers a free 30-day trial. If you exceed the trial limits, you will be charged the Free package rates for additional messages. The starter plan has no subscription fee, but it requires a minimum monthly spend of $30.
Plan | Monthly Fee | Per-SMS Rate | Per-MMS Rate | Key Features Included |
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Starter | $0 | $0.009 | $0.045 | Campaigns & automations, 2 default opt-in keywords, unique verified toll-free number, unlimited segments, response management, basic analytics |
Growth | $100 | $0.008 | $0.03 | All Starter features + unlimited opt-in keywords, live chat & email support |
Professional | $500 | $0.007 | $0.024 | All Growth features + enhanced analytics, priority support, API access for custom integrations, "Powered by Postscript" removed from opt-ins |
Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | All Professional features + onboarding launch specialist, dedicated account management, custom solutions tailored to high-volume or complex needs |
G2: 4.9/5
Capterra: 4.7/5
Software Advice: 4.7/5
GetApp: 4.7/5
The next section is to ease your selection process and cancel out tools that don’t serve the purpose for you.
While every tool looks like the best tool, not every tool is made for you. Software tools are not one-size-fits-all, especially when you are trying to sell digital products. The right SMS marketing tool will fit your goals and target the right customers. So evaluate each tool for:
Check for transparent pricing, no hidden fees, flexible plans (monthly vs. annual), volume-based discounts. This is important to keep margins healthy.
If costs scale predictably with sales, you avoid surprise expenses like carrier fees and can reinvest savings into growth (ads, product creation, etc.).
Your tool should play nicely with your existing setup. Look for integrations with the tool you already use.
(For example, tools like Shopify, ClickFunnels, Eventbrite, Gmail, Google Sheets, GoToWebinar, HubSpot, Keap, Mailchimp, Procore, Salesforce, Typeform, WordPress, Zoom, PayPal, Stripe, CRMs, and email marketing tools.)
If it doesn’t support direct integration, it should provide robust API support instead.
The right platform should do more than send texts—it should automate tasks such as cart recovery, upselling, and reminders. Reliable SMS and MMS delivery, drip automations, smart replies, list management, and campaign analytics are also must-haves.
With these features, your SMS marketing becomes a background engine that consistently drives sales without draining your time.
You don’t need another task at hand when you already have plenty.
If a tool takes extensive time to get started, consider whether it is really worth your time.
Check their customer support responsiveness and look for multiple support channels like live chat, email, or phone support with fast response times. Also, ensure they have an extensive knowledge base, tutorials, webinars, and a guided onboarding process to help leverage the tool.
Your tool’s dashboard should simplify tasks for you, not complicate.
Look for a clean UI and dashboard, intuitive navigation, and campaign success. Basically, a no-fuss, user-friendly tool that delivers the results it promises.
Here’s the deal: many SMS platforms either limit features on lower tiers or charge extra for the basics, requiring add-ons.
Mobile Text Alerts doesn’t play that game. You get the full suite — automations, AI support, iMessage + SMS, and integrations — without surprise carrier fees or hidden costs.
And the best part? You don’t have to take my word for it. You can test-drive the platform yourself with 50 free messages and a 14-day trial. No strings.
Just a chance to see how SMS can actually move the needle for your digital product sales.
👉 Ready to give it a shot?
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