Tithe.ly Messaging is a church text messaging software and email newsletter tool packed in one simple to use solution. Tithe.ly's church communication software solution allows churches to easily communicate with visitors, congregation members, volunteers, staff, and regular attenders through and easy to use text messaging service and email newsletter tool. Tithe.ly Messaging provides the ability to store contact information, send a text or email directly, create lists, send follow-ups, and so much more.

There are no contracts and no sign-up fees involved in getting started with Tithe.ly Messaging. You simply pay $5 per month or if you've signed up for Tithe.ly All Access, you pay no monthly fee. Your first 200 messages, each month, are included and each text message after that is only 2.9 cents per message, with no additional cost for email. The Tithe.ly text messaging service is built to be cost effective and scale with your church or ministry.

No, at the start of each billing period your 200 included messages will reset.

The character limit for a single text message is 160 characters. When you send a text message over 160 characters, the messages will be split.

Large messages are segmented into 153 character segments, sent individually, and then rebuilt by the recipient's device. For example, a 161 character message will be sent as two messages, one with 153 characters and the second with 8 characters.

Tithe.ly Messaging is currently only available to customers within the United States. However, our team is actively working to make Tithe.ly Messaging available in additional countries.

Yes, Tithe.ly Messaging is compatible with all mobile devices via any mobile browser.

Once you've signed up for Tithe.ly Messaging and have added your payment method or an active subscription has been found, you will be directed to the Tiithe.ly church SMS settings page where you'll then be able to add an 800 number, unique to your church, and an email address that people will use to send and receive messages.

You are not able to use an existing phone number for Tithe.ly Messaging at this time, but our team will be exploring the possibility of using existing numbers in the future.

You are not able to use a local number for the Tithe.ly texting service. Due to the nature of sending church SMS blasts via an SMS platform, standard local numbers are not a good fit to use in Messaging. 800 numbers are authorized to send SMS messages to large groups of people, whereas local numbers are often flagged as spam when they send to multiple recipients at one time.

The Tithe.ly text messaging service does not support custom domains, but you are able to use your church name with the domain @messaging.church. (i.e. firstbaptist@messaging.church)

There are two ways to make someone an admin. If you are adding a new contact, once you have filled in all of the contact information, click the checkbox next to 'Set as admin' before adding the new contact. If a contact already exists, simply edit the contact information and click the checkbox next to 'Set as admin' before saving changes.

Using the Tithe.ly text messaging service as a church leader, church staff, pastor, of volunteer, you can create and send follow-ups to lists of people or you can send a mass message (eg. blast) to your entire database.

You are able to tell that a message has been received successfully by the small green 'sent ✓' next to the message.

If someone sends a text message to the church, the 2.9 cents per message does not apply. Costs are only associated with outgoing messages you send to people in your contact list.

Yes! We will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to import contact lists from Tithe.ly ChMS and other services.

Yes! You can set up specific keywords that your members or guests can text. This will trigger a response where people can update their contact info, be added to a list, and even trigger a follow-up sequence. For example, if a guest at your church texted the word 'NEW,' the system could add them to a list called "Visitors" and start an automatic follow-up sequence that you setup which begins to engage the guest.

You can reach our support team by phone at (424) 644-3120 or email at support@tithe.ly, or click on the chat bubble on our website.

For All-Access customers, there is no monthly fee. Outbound text (SMS) messages are 2.9c per message after the first 200 messages per month. Email messages are free. 

If you do not have the Tithe.ly All-Access plan, you will pay a $5 monthly fee and then 2.9c per outbound SMS/text message after your initial 200 messages are used, and email messages are free. 

Visit https://get.tithe.ly/pricing to learn more about pricing.