Text your clients without ever giving out your cell number.
Two-way SMS lives inside Bit & Grain. Appointment reminders go out automatically, status updates send in a tap, and every reply threads back to the job, not to your personal phone. Every message routes through your own registered business number, carrier-approved so it actually delivers. Add your card and that number is yours.
What two-way SMS does for your business
When you book an appointment or close a job, the client hears from you on the channel they actually read. A day-before reminder. A 'we're 15 minutes out' heads-up. A 'your estimate is ready to approve' nudge with the portal link. Each message goes out from a Bit & Grain number, so the conversation stays inside the app instead of bleeding into your personal text history.
When the client replies, the reply lands on the job timeline, not in your inbox of 200 unread group texts. You see who said what, when, against which job, and you can respond from the truck or the office on the same number.
- Automatic appointment reminders (day-before + day-of), no manual sending.
- On-the-way and arrival messages from the route view with one tap.
- Estimate ready, invoice sent, and payment received nudges with portal links.
- Replies thread to the originating job so the context never gets lost.
- Your personal cell stays personal; the client never sees it.
Consent and opt-out, built in
Every client who books through Bit & Grain agrees to the SMS terms at the booking step. The opt-in language is plain (no dark-pattern checkboxes), and STOP / HELP keywords are handled automatically: Twilio recognizes the reply, marks the client as opted-out, and stops sending. You don't have to police it.
The contractor side is just as clean: you can pause SMS for a single client, a single job, or your whole account from Settings → Scheduling. Pause is one click; resuming is the same.
- Plain-language opt-in collected at booking (TCR-compliant disclosure).
- STOP / HELP / UNSUBSCRIBE handled automatically by Twilio.
- Per-client and per-job SMS pause for sensitive situations.
- Audit log of every message sent or received, retained per the privacy policy.
Live now, and how to turn it on
Texting runs from a dedicated number registered to your business, and a dedicated number costs real money every month. So it is the one thing that waits for a card: add your card and your number is provisioned automatically. Everything else in Bit & Grain is on from your first day of the 30-day trial.
There is nothing to install and no carrier paperwork on your end. The moment a client opts in at booking, their reminders start sending from your number, and their replies thread to the job. Messaging runs on a registered, carrier-approved sender (A2P 10DLC), so your texts land in the client's inbox instead of getting filtered as spam. Existing opt-ins carry through, and there is no per-message surcharge.
- Turns on when you add a card, then your own number is provisioned automatically.
- Included at $29/month, no per-message SMS surcharge.
- Carrier-registered (A2P 10DLC verified) so messages deliver reliably.
- Clients opt in once at booking; existing opt-ins already carry through.
- Pause SMS per client, per job, or account-wide anytime from Settings, then Scheduling.
Ready to try Two-way SMS?
Two-way SMS lives inside Bit & Grain. Appointment reminders go out automatically, status updates send in a tap, and every reply threads back to the job, not to your personal phone. Every message routes through your own registered business number, carrier-approved so it actually delivers. Add your card and that number is yours.