Group texting, built into the phone number you already have. Send announcements or run a group chat over plain SMS, with no app for anyone to install.
When GroupMe ended its SMS support, countless groups lost the easiest way they had to stay in touch. Voitex already powers phone systems, hotlines, conference lines and mass call & SMS notifications, so group texting belongs on the platform too.
Meet Grouply. Text one number and your whole group gets the message, on any phone, with no app to install. Free for anyone: no monthly fee, and you don’t need to be an existing Voitex customer.
Choose who can send for each group, and switch any time. No contracts, no monthly fee, open to anyone with a free Voitex account.
Admins send, everyone receives. An announcement list for schools, shuls and teams.
Everyone can talk, and each message goes to the whole group.
Your phone system or Hotline plan covers them.
No monthly fee · $20 setup per group · 2¢ per picture or video
Send any of these to your group’s number. Most start with a # so we can tell them from an ordinary message; a few keywords work on their own. Capital letters aren’t required.
#ADD<phone> [name]AdminsInvites a new member. They join once they reply YES.
#REMOVE<phone>AdminsRemoves a member from the group.
#LEAVEAnyoneLeaves the group, no questions asked.
#INFOAnyoneHow the group works: name, size and rules.
HELPAnyoneThe compliance help message.
STOPAnyoneStops everything. Intercepted by the carrier before it reaches us.
Texting runs the group day to day. The portal is where you watch it, name your groups and manage who is in them.
One message fans out to the whole group, so the chart counts the deliveries behind it, for today, this week or this month. Next to it: how many members you have, and how much of your included allowance they use.
Each member is a card: the group they are on, whether they get a text or a call, and whether they are active or still pending. Open one to change their name, make them an admin, mute them, or switch them to call delivery.
Name the group, choose who may send, and open its settings: pictures and video, non-English characters, maximum length, replies to admins only, quiet hours and whether to send past your allowance.
Grouply is already on your account. Open it in the Voitex portal to set up your groups and manage members.
A group is one of your numbers with Grouply switched on. All of this comes with it, set per number, so no two groups have to behave alike.
Switch Grouply on for a Voitex number and it becomes a group. Text the number, and everyone on it gets the message.
Any number on your account can be a group of its own. No limit, no per-group fee.
Give each group a name and it follows the number everywhere it appears.
Quiet hours, message length, who may send, spending caps, all set per number.
Someone can be on “Main Line” but not on “Announcements”, and an admin on one while a plain member on the other.
No app to install, no account to create, no smartphone required. If it rings or receives a text, Grouply reaches it.
Ordinary SMS from your group’s number, with the sender’s name in front.
Switch a member to call delivery and Grouply rings them and reads the message aloud, on a landline or a mobile that doesn’t do texts.
MMS is set per group and bills at the higher picture rate. Leave it off and only text goes out.
Accents, Hebrew, Yiddish, emoji, sent as Unicode, which shortens a billed segment to 70 characters.
Carrier requirements and house rules both live on the number, and Grouply enforces them on the way out.
Promote someone on one group without giving them the run of the rest.
Everyone, or admins only. An admins-only group still delivers to every member.
A new member stays pending until they reply for themselves. Nobody is signed up silently.
Set a window; anything sent outside it is held and released the moment it opens.
The carrier network intercepts it before it ever reaches us, so a member opts out the moment they send it.
Past 160 characters a message bills as several segments. Cap the length, the overage and the monthly spend.
The portal shows what went out, who received it, and what anyone changed.
A live chart for today, this week or this month, with the messages behind each point.
Adds, removals, renames, settings, released queues, with who did it and when.
Active, switched off, pending or opted out, filterable in one click.
Who may send, quiet hours and message limits, set separately for every number.
A landline at the front desk. A mobile that never took to texting. A handset that only rings. Set any member to call delivery and Grouply phones them the moment the group is messaged, and reads it aloud.
It belongs to the member, not the group, so one group can be half texts and half calls, and nobody changes the phone they already use.
Everything that bills is optional. Each group carries its own limits, and Grouply stops at them rather than asking you afterwards.
Turn MMS off for a group and only text goes out. Nothing ever bills at the picture rate.
Give a group a ceiling it can’t spend past. Once it’s reached, nothing more sends.
Keep every message in standard characters so a segment stays at the full 160.
A chat-style group can deliver only to the members your phone system or Hotline plan includes free.
Two. Admin style: only admins send, and every member receives, an announcement list. Chat style: everyone in the group can send, and each message goes to the whole group. You choose the style for each number under “Who can send” in the portal.
Yes. Admin-style groups cost nothing per month. There is no monthly fee and no member limit, and you don’t need to be an existing Voitex customer: just create a free Voitex account. The only charge is a one-time $20 setup fee per group.
Chat-style groups are open to anyone with a Voitex account, with no monthly fee. Each message is $0.01 per 160 characters, per member. With a Voitex business phone system or Hotline, the members included in your plan’s allowance are free, and only members past it are charged.
No. Both styles are open to anyone with a free Voitex account. Being a Voitex phone system or Hotline customer adds free members to chat-style groups, up to your plan’s allowance.
Yes. Once you have a Voitex account, you can create a chat-style group on a separate number, one that isn’t tied to your regular phone system or Hotline.
Each message to each member counts as one, per 160 characters. A message written with non-English characters, like Hebrew or emoji, counts as two.
Yes. GroupMe ended its SMS support; Grouply keeps a group reachable by plain text message, and admin-style groups are free for anyone. Members need no app and no account. Any phone that receives a text or a call works.
No. A phone that can receive a text, or a call, is the whole requirement.
No. There is no cap on how much a group sends, and we carry that cost. We do reserve the right to get in touch about charges, or to withdraw the service, where usage is clearly excessive.
Switch the charges off. In the portal each group can block pictures and video, block non-English characters and cap the message length; a chat-style group can also skip members past your allowance. Each group can carry its own monthly ceiling too.
As many as you have numbers. Each is separate: its own style, name, members, admins and rules.
Yes. Adding a member sends an invitation, and they stay pending until they reply YES (or Y, ACCEPT, OK, OKAY) from their own phone.
Switch them to call delivery. Grouply rings them and reads the message aloud, on a landline or on a mobile that can take calls but not texts.
Turn on quiet hours for that number. Anything sent inside the window is queued and released when it ends.
They stop receiving immediately. STOP is intercepted by the carrier network before it ever reaches Grouply, so it works whatever else is going on. Anyone can also text #LEAVE to leave a group.
Admins can text #ADD <phone> and #REMOVE <phone>. Anyone can text #INFO for how the group works, HELP for the compliance reply, and #LEAVE to leave.