How It Works

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Text your entire church

Send mass texts with links, pictures, polls, and emojis. Use other languages. Include embedded notes, or personalize your message with custom data fields. Send videos. Schedule texts or set up recurring messages.
Send texts from a local, 10-digit number or lease a 5-digit short code. Both options are available with any plan.

Richer texting with Clearstream

Shift to one-on-one conversations

Respond to incoming texts from your inbox, where one-on-one conversations happen with your people.
Let your team manage separate conversations in your shared inbox. Or use subaccounts to give other ministries or campuses their own separate inboxes and numbers.

Learn about the inbox

An inbox preview. Someone has texted in to ask what time the service begins next week, and a Clearstream user has replied '10:30am!'

Start video texting

Record and send videos in Clearstream. Film a welcome for first-time guests, an encouraging devotional, or weekly announcements from the pastor.
Record in portrait or landscape mode, upload previously recorded videos, and save them in a video library.

Learn about video

A mass text saying 'Hey church! We've got some exciting annoucements' with a video of a friendly, smiling young woman attached.

Follow up with visitors

Visitors can use a keyword or signup form to fill out a digital connect card, join an automated workflow, and be synced to your church management database — all within seconds.
Schedule a series of texts inviting guests back for another service or directing them to a next steps class.

A preview of a guest workflow, with a digital connect card, syncing a new user to Planning Center

Create text-to-join keywords

Create keywords for different use cases or ministries with a 10-digit number or dedicated short code.
Or, use a single keyword for your entire church with keyword menus. Give people the option of what information they'd like based on a menu. Each menu choice can then trigger it's own text auto-response or automated workflow.

Learn about keywords

A keyword workflow, with a menu for 1.) New 2.) Volunteer 3.) Giving 4.) Prayer.

Engage with live polls

Actively involve your church with a live poll. Results can be shown in real time, on screen as people respond.
Display a call-to-action during service and encourage people to participate in your poll through a keyword. Or just send your poll through a mass text.

Learn about polls

A poll asking 'Which book of the Bible should we study?

Segment with subaccounts

Set up multiple accounts under your main Clearstream account for different ministries or campuses, and manage their credit usage from within your master account.
Each subaccount has their own users, inbox, local 10-digit number, lists, and integrations.

Learn about subaccounts

Use our native, user-friendly mobile apps

Send out last-minute reminders, get push notifications for incoming texts and keywords, and manage your inbox with our native iOS and Android apps.
Our mobile apps are perfect for managing your text communication on a Sunday morning or while distracted at dinner. You would never...

Clearstream iOS & Android apps

Powerful Integrations

Clearstream integrates seamlessly with the tools your church uses

Planning Center

Send texts to your People lists, create new profiles in People, add people to your Planning Center Workflows, and more.

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Rock RMS

Use Clearstream’s Rock RMS plugin to send texts without leaving Rock. Sync Rock Groups and Communication Lists into Clearstream, create new people in Rock, and more.

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