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Pricing from
$59 per month
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User industry
  1. Construction
  2. Professional services (engineering, legal, consulting, etc.)
  3. Real estate and property management

What is Text Request

Text Request is a business texting platform that centralizes SMS and MMS conversations for customer communication. It supports use cases such as lead follow-up, appointment reminders, customer service texting, and review requests, typically for small and mid-sized organizations with multiple staff handling messages. The product emphasizes shared inbox workflows, templates, and integrations to route and manage conversations across teams. It also includes features aimed at generating and managing customer reviews as part of reputation workflows.

pros

Shared inbox for teams

Text Request provides a centralized inbox that multiple staff can use to send and respond to SMS/MMS from a business number. This supports handoffs, visibility into conversation history, and basic assignment/ownership workflows. For organizations that rely on texting as a primary channel, this reduces reliance on individual mobile devices and personal numbers.

Review request workflows

The platform includes tooling to request customer reviews via text and track responses as part of reputation-related processes. This aligns with common post-service workflows where businesses want to prompt customers shortly after an interaction. It can be useful for teams that want review generation tied directly to messaging rather than running a separate reputation tool.

Templates and automation options

Text Request supports reusable message templates and automation-oriented features that help standardize outreach and responses. This can improve consistency for reminders, follow-ups, and common support questions. Compared with broader conversational platforms, it focuses these capabilities around SMS-first operations.

cons

SMS-first channel coverage

Text Request is primarily oriented around SMS/MMS, which may be limiting for organizations that need a single platform spanning web chat, in-app messaging, social messaging, and voice. Teams looking for omnichannel routing and unified customer profiles may need additional systems. This can increase integration and reporting complexity across channels.

Advanced marketing depth varies

While it supports texting campaigns and templates, it may not match the depth of full marketing automation suites for segmentation, multi-step journeys, and cross-channel attribution. Organizations with complex lifecycle marketing requirements may need a dedicated automation platform alongside it. This can create duplicated contact management and consent tracking processes.

Internal comms not primary use

Although teams can collaborate in a shared inbox, the product is not designed as a full internal communications hub with broad employee chat, channels, and knowledge-sharing features. Companies seeking an internal-first messaging platform may find the feature set oriented more toward customer conversations. Internal communication use cases may require separate tooling.

Plan & Pricing

Plan Price Key features & notes
Entry (Basic/Starter) $59 / month — 1,000 texts included Official site states 1,000 messages included at the entry price; unlimited users & contacts; core business texting features (two‑way texting, mass texting, templates, 10DLC verification).
Higher tiers (Corporate, Enterprise, High‑volume) Unsure / see official comparison chart image on vendor site Text Request’s official plan comparison chart (TR‑Plan‑Comparison.png) shows additional tiers and higher monthly prices but the rendered chart is graphical; specific numeric values for higher tiers were not extractable from the page HTML I accessed.

Notes: The vendor’s site explicitly documents a 14‑day free trial and states unlimited users/contacts. Full tier breakdown is available as an official plan comparison image on the pricing page.

Seller details

Text Request, Inc.
Chattanooga, TN, USA
Private
https://www.textrequest.com/
https://x.com/textrequest
https://www.linkedin.com/company/text-request/

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