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Avochato is a leading SMS / text message platform. While relatively new compared to some of their competitors, their product has quickly surpassed most others in terms of features and usability. Avochato's customer service is extremely responsive and friendly. Avochato's product is industry agnostic and supports sales, marketing, and operations teams according to their website. Their most popular features are their one-to-many messaging, auto-response text messages, and surveys. They offer a free trial that we recommend exploring if you're looking for a text message solution.

Finding the best SMS messaging platform is no easy endeavor. Unless you’re an experience veteran of the messaging space, you likely won’t know how to navigate the complexities of the various text messaging platforms out there. That’s completely okay—there’s plenty of sites and services to help you along the way.

Conversational SMS platforms like Avochato, are great solutions for businesses that want to have one on one conversations with their customers. For those that don’t want to take to build out conversational SMS functionality using something like Twilio, Avochato is an excellent choice.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are platforms that utilize shared short codes and specialize in sending bulk or mass texts (one-to-many). EZ Texting and Textedly are great choices if you are interested in sending out messages to a lot of people but don’t want or need to have a back and forth conversation.

Some solutions are going to be cheap easy to get up and running extremely quickly, and could be good choices for businesses with fewer contacts. Platforms like Zipwhip and Textline have a product that’s very easy to use but makes you pay more for more users. While good for a smaller business if your business is growing you could end up paying a lot very quickly. The platform could also become more difficult to use as your contact list grows.

All of the SMS platforms on this site have their own pros and cons. Which platform will best serve you depends on your situation. We recommend taking the quiz so we can give you a better recommendation.

Ultimately, which platform you choose depends on a multitude of factors, such as:

– How many contacts you want to send text messages to
– If you want to send one-to-many messages or have text message conversations with customers
– What software and services do you need to integrate with
– What your budget constraints are
– How important security and privacy to your business