VistoSMS enables a more connected campus

For students and parents, text messaging is the most reliable and trusted solution to get your message read fast. We help universities, colleges, and higher education institutions increase engagement with students, alumni, and faculty through mass text messaging.

SMS Communications for Schools and Educational Institutions

Whether you run a primary school, secondary school, tertiary institution, learning centre or training/education facility, you know that keeping all parties in the loop can be tricky. Sometimes plans change and people need to be informed. Automate some or all of your usual communications through SMS text messaging and reallocate your admin time to do the fun stuff – teaching!

Text Messaging for Schools

Absenteeism alerts: promptly alert parents or guardians to a child's absence. The parent can either respond via text to explain the absence, or is alerted to truancy on their child's part. These alerts can link back to your attendance tracking software through integration.

Send enrollment information
Provide updates on student performance and progress
Notify of parent teacher events
Active Shooter Warnings
Monitor student welfare
Communicate wet weather plans to parents on excursion or carnival days
Remind parents of student free days, Book Week dress ups, uniform-free days, etc
Provide excursion updates
Reminders for sporting carnivals and events
Coordinate parent volunteers
Send payment reminders

How SMS can transform educational institutions

Bulk SMS alerts and notifications

With more than 98% of SMS read, bulk text messaging is a reliable and cost effective way to ensure your student community is informed.

Two-way conversational messaging

Create dedicated workflows based on responses or questions and send follow up one-to-one messages to students or parents.

Enrollment and fee reminders

Ensure your classes are filled and that your students are informed on key dates for census and fee due dates to help parents and students stay on top of their tuition costs.

SMS Messaging for Tertiary Institutions

If you work for a university, TAFE, community college or trade school, create a two-way communication channel with your students with SMS messaging for tertiary institutions. Use text messaging to keep students informed of:

Encourage happy customers to leave reviews on social media or online
Encourage customer feedback
Send SMS to service personnel to direct them to jobs
Advise customers of pending service arrival or deliveries
Thank customers for their patronage
Advise order cancellations for non-payment
Send payment reminders

Why Use SMS to Communicate in Your Educational Institution

Our mass text messaging service lets you reach individuals or large groups right from your computer. Messages are delivered from a toll-free number we assign to your account. Upload a list, personalize your message, and view the results.

With the convenience, reach, open rate of SMS being second to none, you know you can rely on texts to get your message across. Send bulk SMS and communicate with large groups instantaneously, resulting in:

More engagement with parents
Improved student punctuality/attendance
Decrease in time spent on admin

With SMS education solutions, messaging both one and two ways is facilitated; up to ten thousand individuals can be reached within seconds, and the solution is web-based, making it easy to use without the need to install any software. It is easy to use and extremely convenient for all parties. Take your educational facility’s communication to the next level with an SMS messaging service and attendance tracking software.

Text Message Updates for Absenteeism

SMS for Scheduling Parent-Teacher Interviews

SMS School/University Term Reminders

Text Message Tuition Fee Reminders

Text Message Notifications for School Events

SMS Contact for Alumni or Former Students

SMS for education exists to improve your processes, reducing the time and cost of administration. By automating your repetitive communications processes, you can focus your energy on being an educator.

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SMS Examples/Templates for Education Use

These are templates for common messages that you can tweak to suit your exact needs. And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, they’ll give you an idea of how to phrase your messages.

Announcements and promos

Promote events, send emergency alerts, reach out to alumni, make important announcements, and send notifications.

Promote an event

Hi, [First Name]. [School Name]’s homecoming dance is right around the corner! Snag tickets by [Date] for $5 off: [link]

Holiday regards

Happy holidays! 🎄 We wish you a joyful holiday season and prosperous New Year. As a reminder, school is closed [Date] - [Date] - [School Name]

New courses & programs

[School Name] is pleased to announce we are offering a new course this academic year: [Course Name]. To learn more about it, simply reply YES.

Admissions

Hey [Name]. There’s still time to apply for [School Name]’s [Program Name] student program. We will begin announcing admissions in [Month/Duration].

Contact alumni

Hi, [Alumni Name]. We’re excited to invite you to [School Name]’s 10-year reunion party at [Date & Time]. For more details, reply YES.

Emergency alerts

Due to severe weather conditions, [School Name] will be closed on [Date]. If you want to receive updates, reply YES.

Student coordination

SMS is the easiest way to grab your students’ attention and ensure they’re up-to-date on all matters.

Curriculum materials

Hello, [Student Name]. Here’s a full list of studying materials for this semester: [Link]

Grades

Hi, [Student Name]. Your grade for [Class/Project] is now available. Head to your student portal to check it out: [Link]

Upcoming exams

Hello, [Student Name]. This is a reminder for the practice ACT held on [Date & Time]. Remember to bring water and a stopwatch.

Application reminder

Hi, [Student Name]. The application deadline for admission into the [Club/Society Name] is [Date]. Apply now: [Link]

Registration confirmation

Hi, [Student Name]. This message confirms that you registered to try out for [Sport] for the [Semester]. Tryouts start on [Date] at [Time].

Remote support or tutoring

Hi, [Student Name]. Our e-learning program gives you access to tutors and extra online resources. Check out what’s available: [Link]

Send important notices

Hi, [Student Name]. Remember to pick up your student ID and books at the gym between [Time] - [Time] on [Date]. Contact admin office for any questions.

Request documents

Hi, [Student Name]. Please remember to return your signed field trip permission slip by [Date]. Print here: [Link]

Parent communication

Whether to send reminders, updates or notifications to parents, SMS always provides the easiest and quickest way.

Posted grades

Hi, [Guardian Name]. Final grades for the semester will be posted online by [date]. You will also receive the report card in the mail. - [School Name]

Schedule a meeting

Hi, [Guardian Name]. This is [Name] from [School Name]. Are you available this week for a meeting to discuss [Student Name]. Reply to or call this number.

Meeting confirmation

Hi, [Guardian Name]. Your meeting tomorrow with [Teacher Name] is scheduled for [Time]. Reply C to confirm your attendance.

Meeting reminder

Hi, [Guardian Name]. You have a meeting on [Date] and [Time] with [Teacher Name]. Please arrive 5 minutes early and wait outside classroom [Number].

Request information

Hi, [Guardian Name]. [Student name] was absent on [Date] without notice. Please call [Phone Number] or send a letter to provide a reason. - [School Admin Office]

Share student behavior reports

Hi, [Guardian Name]. Here’s a report about [Student Name]’s recent concerning behavior in class. Please reply or call with any questions. [Link]

Payment collection

Avoid late payments by sending notifications and reminders to students and parents on time.

Collect tuition fees

Hi, [Guardian Name]. The [Semester] tuition fee for [Student Name] is due soon. Please pay by [Date] to avoid late fees. - [School name]

Field trip payment

Hi, [Student Name]. Your spot is saved for the field trip to [X]. Please pay [Amount] to the admin office before [Date]. Thank you!

Request fees for events

Hello [Name]. Please pay [amount] to [School Name] to participate in [Event Name]. Fees are due November 20.

Staff communication

Keep in touch with the staff to inform them of any updates or open a conversation.

Send reminders

Hi staff. This is a reminder that the elementary school will have a shortened day this [Day]. Students will leave by [Time].

Book chaperones

Hi teachers. We need [Number] chaperones for the field trip to [X] on [Date]. Please reply if you’re interested or available.

Request substitute teachers

Hi, staff. One of our [Grade] teachers has an emergency. Is anyone free to substitute them from [Date] to [Date]. If you’re available, please reply YES.

RSVP for events

Hi [Teacher Name]. The g[Event Name] is taking place on [Date] at [Time]. Please RSVP as a volunteer, organizer, or attendee by [Date]. Thank you!

Class cancellations

Hi, staff. Due to a severe snowstorm, all classes will be canceled on [Date]. Please plan accordingly.

Collect feedback

Listening is more important than talking. Listen to what your staff and pupils say and how you can make the school a better place for everyone.

Send surveys

Hi, [Student Name]. Thanks for taking our advanced physics course. We’d love to get your feedback and find ways to improve. To complete the survey, click [Link]

Encourage complaints

Hello, [Guardian Name]. Lately, we’ve received bullying reports. Help us create a safe space for everyone, and report any cases here: [Link]

Send School SMS with VistoSMS

Are you ready to leverage the power of SMS to communicate with students, parents, and staff alike? VistoSMS challenges traditional methods by allowing you to connect within seconds, without the risk of ending up in spam.

VistoSMS Offers the Features You Need to be Successful

With VistoSMS, you get all the standard features of a mass texting service plus industry-leading, cutting-edge features you won’t find anywhere else. There’s no better way to grow your business.

Automatic Text Reply

When you send thousands of text messages, you might get thousands of replies. Instead of managing each reply individually, use VistoSMS to schedule a text message reply each time your customers mention a particular keyword. They text, and you send an auto response text within seconds without lifting a finger.

Drip Campaigns

Drip campaigns are an effective tool to help your customers go from the research phase to the purchase phase. Bring the drip campaign method into your text marketing strategy with VistoSMS. Schedule messages to be sent out at particular intervals to walk your contacts through why they should choose your product, service or organization.

Mass Group Texting

Send a mass text with the click of a button with VistoSMS. Busy professionals don’t have time to send messages to thousands of people each day. So automate the process. Instantly reach thousands — or hundreds of thousands — of people with our one-of-a-kind mass text service.

Unlimited Contacts

Any mass texting service that limits the number of people you can text isn’t doing its job. While our competitors like to limit the number of contacts you can have, we make sure your message reaches everyone — and we mean everyone — that you need it to. No limits on contacts — ever.

Schedule Texts

We want to be the leader in automated text message for business services, and one of the most important parts of SMS marketing automation is the ability to schedule a text. With VistoSMS, you can write your messages ahead of time and schedule them for whenever you want. Make your work schedule work for you.

Send Long Messages

Limiting the number of characters you can send in a mass text message is like turning off your microphone in the middle of a speech. Your message doesn’t get across. That’s why we won’t limit the length of your text messages. Stop thinking in 160 characters and start thinking about everything your customers need to know.

Text Keywords

Set custom keywords to allow your contacts to automatically join groups, get discounts, reach people in your organization and more. Set as many keywords and related functions as you want.

International Texting

Do you have clients that are based in Belgium? Costa Rica? Egypt? You name it, we can send it! Texting Base is one of the few platforms that offers International Texting! A list of countries and cost of units can be found by clicking here.

Authentic Text Messages

No spam, no undelivered messages. VistoSMS sends real, authentic SMS messages directly to mobile carriers so your message never gets locked in the spam folder. Everyone on your contact list gets the full message you sent in seconds.

Birthday & Holiday Texts

Celebrating something (or someone!) special? VistoSMS makes it easy! Just create a message, personalize it, pick a date/time and it will automatically be sent. No more forgetting those special occasions!

Two Way SMS

What’s the point of sending mass text messages if you can’t continue the conversation when one of your contacts replies to you? With VistoSMS, you get a convenient, easy-to-use inbox that lets you see — and quickly respond to — everyone who has responded to your mass texts. Keep the conversation going.

Upload Your Contact List

Coming to VistoSMS from another mass texting service? You made the right choice! And you don’t have to worry about losing your contact list, either. Simply upload your existing contact list to VistoSMS and start sending messages. You don’t have to start from scratch to start using our platform.

Zapier

Take advantage of our free Zapier integration to connect Texting Base with more than 3,000 work apps that your business already uses. Never miss a beat, a message, a request or anything at all by keeping all of your workflow apps — including your text marketing platform — fully integrated. Our cutting-edge API makes it not just possible, but easy.

Picture Messaging

There’s a handy little secret for those who want to know how to make their text marketing stand out from the crowd: use pictures. Images in text messages are memorable, get the message across and drive more engagement. VistoSMS allows you to attach a picture to any outgoing mass MMS message.

Multiple User Support

Get the right people in the right seats — that’s how organizations thrive and grow. Some of those seats probably involve a role in your SMS marketing campaigns, so don’t leave your team members out of your texting platform. Instead, add all of them to VistoSMS. We support unlimited users so your whole team can get involved.

Voice Services

What if some of your contacts would prefer to speak on the phone instead of texting? With most mass texting services, you would be out of luck. But VistoSMS makes voice calls easy. You can receive calls from any contact at your dedicated phone numbers.

Text to Join

SMS marketing isn’t just about sending text messages to your contacts — it’s also about growing your contact list. With VistoSMS’s Text to Join feature, getting more contacts is easy. You can allow people to text your dedicated number to join your list, giving you valuable contacts and data in the process.

Text to Vote

With our text to vote feature, you can quickly and easily get the opinion of your contacts. Ask a simple question and get thousands of answers within minutes. Don’t waste money on expensive surveys and emails no one will respond to — use text to vote data to drive impactful, growth-oriented decisions for your business.

Use Texting Base From Your Mobile Phone

You can do text marketing on the go with VistoSMS. Out and about, at home or simply away from your office computer, you can log in to your Texting Base account from your mobile phone and send out a text message blast. Get real text marketing results without setting foot in the office.

SMS Surveys

Sending surveys to customers is one of the best ways to get real, actionable feedback on your business or organization. That’s why we have implemented survey functionality in our platform. You can easily send text message surveys to your contacts to keep them engaged and get real insight fast.

Triggering Auto Responders

Want to be more interactive with your customers? VistoSMS offers a triggering capability, which means you can add words like “YES” or “NO” and an auto response will go out based on the client’s answer.

CTIA and Mobile Carrier Guidance

If you have done any mass texting for your business in the past, you know there are rules about disclaimers and giving contacts clear instructions for opting in and opting out. Keeping up with all of these rules can be complicated, but we make it simple. We offer mobile carrier and CTIA guidance to make sure you’re doing it all right.

Single Send

Sometimes, one engaged customer becomes more valuable than hundreds of other customers. Whether it’s a highly interested prospect or someone who has an appointment coming up, you can use VistoSMS to reach that particular individual with a perfectly tailored message that keeps them engaged.

Text Message Data Collection

Phone numbers are a given when you are collecting data from your SMS marketing efforts. But we think text message data collection should go deeper. That’s why we have designed VistoSMS to automatically collect data points like city, state, ZIP code, email address and first and last name.

Personalization

Never forget that your contacts are real people. They want to be talked to like real people. This should always inform your approach to text marketing. Want a quick and easy way to personalize a mass text? Address every recipient by name. With VistoSMS, you can do that quickly and easily.

Integrate Your Web Apps

Zapier integration allows you to connect VistoSMS with the web apps you’re already using. Even if you are using a relatively unknown app, we probably have you covered. That’s because VistoSMS can integrate with more than 3,000 apps! From the greatest hits like Slack and Salesforce to the deeper tracks like MailChimp and Shopify, we have you covered.

Secure Data and Information

For most businesses, data is more valuable than gold. Unfortunately, like gold, data is a common target of online theft and fraud. That’s why you need top-of-the-line encryption and SSL technology — like the kind that VistoSMS offers — to protect the data you collect with your SMS marketing efforts.

Built-In Link Shrinking

A mass texting service can drive thousands of visitors to your website if you include a link in your messages. But URLs are often long, and they look confusing and a little off-putting in text message format. Save characters and boost click-throughs by using VistoSMS’s built-in link shortener. Just a few characters is all you need.

Email Capture

Text message marketing and email marketing are close relatives, and both can bring exponential growth to your business. So why not have them work together? With VistoSMS, when you get new texting contacts, you instantly capture their email addresses. All you have to do is export them to your email marketing platform like MailChimp.

Inbound Multimedia Messaging Service

You can get multimedia responses from your contacts directly in your VistoSMS inbox. This feature allows your contacts to send you pictures that tell the whole story, whether it’s a customer service issue, an item they would like to sell or a type of home they would like to buy. The possibilities are virtually limitless

Two-Factor Authentication

Protect your VistoSMS account with two-factor authentication, the leading account protection technology. All this means is that you have to go a step further than your email and password; you get a text message with a unique login code every time you log in. That way, the right people — and only the right people — can access your mass texting service.

Personalize Data Mapping

Tired of sending standardized texts with no flare? Capture your audience by personalizing texts with their favorite sports teams, foods, etc. Simply upload a .csv file with your contacts (Phone, First Name and Last Name) and add any extra fields you desire!