Customize your text
Send video texts
Make your mass text a little more engaging by including a video. Upload an existing video, and create and record a new one directly within Clearstream.
If your recipients have your text number saved in their phone, it will play inline. Otherwise, it's sent as a link.
Send now or later
Use our web app or iOS / Android app to instantly send a mass text to your people, or schedule out your messages for a later date. Don't worry, scheduled messages can be edited or deleted.
Need to set and forget a message that goes out regularly? Schedule a recurring text.
Link Shortening
Include full-length or shortened URLs in your mass text.
With Clearstream, you'll have a custom link subdomain to help with carrier filtering.
Shortened links in Clearstream are trackable, meaning you can see how many people clicked on your link post-send.
Live Metrics
View real-time metrics like how fast your message is being delivered, opt-out rates, replies, and even texts that fail to deliver.
Want to see if someone specific received your text? A searchable table makes it quick and painless.
Clearstream scales
Whether you're a church of 50 or 50k people, our infrastructure and carrier connections can handle even the highest loads.
For large churches, we highly recommend short codes for high volume mass texting.
Learn how and why the largest churches are using Clearstream for their texting communications.
Frequently Asked Questions
Any outgoing text you send (mass text, auto-response, or inbox reply) can include up to 765 characters (letters and numbers). Here’s the credit breakdown:
Messages less than 161 characters use 1 credit per person.
Messages between 161-306 characters use 2 credits per person.
Messages between 307-459 characters use 3 credits per person.
Messages between 460-612 characters use 4 credits per person.
Messages between 613-765 characters use 5 credits per person.
Yes, you can include:
Videos (up to 5 minutes long)
Pictures (JPEG, PNG, or HEIC files up to 8MB in size)
GIFs (500kb limit)
Notes (think a Google Doc sent via text)
vCard (Virtual contact card)
Every Clearstream account comes with a registered A2P 10DLC (application to person 10-digit long code) number - a viable option for smaller-scale texting on a budget (a few hundred to a couple of thousand people). A2P 10DLC numbers experience better message delivery, faster sending, and less carrier filtering than non-registered numbers you might get with other platforms.
For high-volume mass texting you have the option of leasing a dedicated short code, but it’s more expensive.
Yes. Clearstream offers dedicated short codes and is a vetted Premiere Partner with the Short Code Registry, the short code registrar who leases all short codes in the United States. Dedicated short codes are the single best option for high-volume, high-message-throughput, reliable, non-carrier-filtered, emoji/multilingual-supported, two-way mass texting.
If you’re interested in learning how Clearstream can set up and manage a dedicated short code for your church, go here. Note that Clearstream doesn’t charge setup or short code hosting fees like most providers.
Maybe not every language since there are over 7,000 worldwide. But yes, thanks to Unicode, most languages can be sent in Clearstream.
Yes, with our {insert_data} functionality, you can insert the name for each subscriber when sending a mass text. This can make your mass texts feel a little more personal.
If their name isn't known, a fallback can be set, just like in real life..."Hey there!"