Is it possible to send a PDF file through standard text messaging?

Sending PDFs via MMS text messaging

Do you want to share more information with your customers, prospects, or employees without relying on email or other platforms? Do you want to make your SMS communication more engaging and effective? Do you want to save time and money while delivering high-quality content to your audience?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you should consider texting PDFs using your business phone number whether it's a landline or a VoIP number.

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What are some benefits of sending PDFs via MMS text messaging?

Sending PDFs through text messages has many advantages for your business communication, such as:

• Increased engagement: PDFs allow you to share detailed information, visually appealing content, and compelling offers, capturing the attention of your audience more effectively than plain text alone.
• Convenience and accessibility: Sending PDFs directly to your customers’ mobile devices offers convenience and accessibility. Recipients can view the PDF content without requiring them to open external links or switch between different apps.
• Brand consistency: PDFs enable you to maintain consistent branding across your SMS communication. You can incorporate your company’s logo, colors, and design elements within the document, ensuring a cohesive visual experience for your recipients.
• Content capacity: MMS messages have a high character limit, which makes long messages more cost-effective than sending SMS over multiple 160-character segments.
• Better user experience (UX): The best advantage of MMS is its experience. The recipient can see the PDF file as an image preview within the message, rather than a link that redirects them to another site.Response times: We respond to images in an incredibly fast time, taking as little as milliseconds to process them.

Reasons why you should send PDFs using text messaging

Texting PDFs to your customers can have many advantages for your business, such as:

• Saving time and money: Texting PDFs is cheaper and faster than printing, mailing, or faxing documents. You can also save paper and ink costs and reduce your environmental impact.
• Increasing customer satisfaction: Texting PDFs is convenient and accessible for your customers. They can view the documents on their phones anytime and anywhere, without needing to download any apps or software. They can also reply to your texts with questions or feedback, creating a two-way conversation and building trust and loyalty.
• Improving conversion rates: Texting PDFs can help you close more deals and generate more revenue. You can send PDFs with attractive offers, discounts, coupons, or testimonials to entice your customers to buy your products or services. You can also send PDFs with payment links or QR codes to make it easy for your customers to pay you.
• Enhancing your brand image: Texting PDFs can help you showcase your professionalism and quality. You can send PDFs with your logo, colors, fonts, and design to create a consistent and appealing brand identity. You can also send PDFs with valuable information, tips, or resources to educate and engage your customers.‍

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Can you text a PDF from your business phone number?

You can send PDFs via regular text messages with your current business phone number if it's already text-enabled. MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is a common method to text with photos, images, videos, audio, PDF, and vCard contacts over a mobile network. To send a PDF using your business phone number, you’ll need to text-enable your business phone number using a business texting service.

How to text-enable my business phone number?

To text-enable your business phone number, whether it’s an old-school landline or a VoIP phone system, you’ll need a business text messaging platform: A business texting platform is a service that allows you to send and receive SMS and MMS messages from your computer or mobile device, using your existing landline or VoIP phone number. You can sign up for a platform, such as Texty Pro, and verify your ownership of the phone number. Then you can start texting from your dashboard or app, and use features like auto-responders, templates, and text-message scheduling to optimize your communication.

How to Text PDFs to Your Customers with Texty Pro?

Texty Pro is a business texting platform that lets you send and receive SMS and MMS messages, including PDFs, with your customers using your landline or VoIP number. You can also use Texty Pro schedule text message reminders, use templates, set up auto-replies, and more.

To text PDFs to your customers with Texty Pro, you just need to follow these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a free 14-day trial of Texty Pro.
2. Verify and enable your business phone number for texting.
3. Drag and drop your PDF file into the text box and hit send.
4. You can also receive PDF files from your customers by asking them to attach the PDF file to their text message.

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How to send PDF documents via text message

To text a PDF, you need Texty Pro to enable texting on your business phone number. After verifying and enabling your number, just drag & drop your PDF file into the text box and hit send. That’s it. The recipient will see your business phone number as the sender. To receive a PDF by text, the sender will use your business phone number and attach the PDF to the text. You can view the PDF on our website or mobile app. You’ll have no problem sending and receiving PDFS as long as the PDF file is under 1MB.

What type of PDF files can I send?

You can share PDF files of any kind through MMS, provided they are no larger than 1MB. Some mobile carriers may allow bigger files, but our service limits the PDF file size to 1MB because of the varying file size standards of different mobile carriers for compatibility.‍

How to send large PDF documents through text messages

If you want to send a large PDF file through standard text messages, one way to do it is by saving the PDF file to cloud storage and sharing the link to the file via SMS. Here are the steps:

1. Save the PDF file to a cloud storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox.
2. Get the shareable link to the PDF file. This can usually be done by right-clicking on the file and selecting "Get shareable link" or a similar option.
3. Open your messaging app and create a new message.
4. Paste the shareable link into the message field.
5. Add any necessary text or context to the message.
6. Send the message to the recipient.

Once the recipient receives the SMS message, they can click on the link to open and view the PDF file in their web browser or in the cloud storage app. Note that this method may not be ideal for sensitive or confidential documents, as the link to the file can be forwarded or shared with others.

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Start Texting PDFs Today!

Texting PDFs to your customers can be a game-changer for your business. It can help you save time and money, increase customer satisfaction, improve conversion rates, and enhance your brand image. With Texty Pro, you can text PDFs easily and effectively with your customers using your existing business phone number. Try it today and see the difference!