SlickText vs. Text Request

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SlickText
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
SlickText, from Slicktext.com headquartered in Jamestown (Slick Innovations LLC) is a mobile marketing platform emphasizing text and SMS marketing. Subscriptions support unlimited contacts, picture messaging, and rollover texts.
$29
per month 500 Texts
Text Request
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Text Request is a business texting platform built to ignite customer engagement. It is a plug-and-play messaging solutions to everyday communication problems that enables businesses to connect to customers anytime, anywhere. Text Request is designed to scale from one person handling a few conversations, to thousands of employees sending millions of messages, to custom solutions built on its API.
$59
per month
Pricing
SlickTextText Request
Editions & Modules
The Basic
$29
per month 500 Texts
The Step Up
$49
per month 1,000 Texts
The Lil' Bro
$79
per month 2,000 Texts
The Big Bro
$139
per month 3,600 Texts
The Boss
$189
per month 5,000 Texts
The Albatross
$350
per month 10,000 Texts
The Whale
$750
per month 25,000 Texts
The Monstro
1,250
per month 50,000 Texts
The Mammoth
1,999
per month 100,000 Texts
Basic
$59
per month
Starter
$139
per month
Corporate
$279
per month
Enterprise
$549
per month
High Volume Tier 1
$850
per month
High Volume Tier 2
$1,400
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SlickTextText Request
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
SlickTextText Request
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SlickTextText Request
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for those getting started with SMS campaigns. It was easy for everyone on our team to pick up and get going without a lot of training. If you have mobile number lists in the hundreds of thousands I can see how it would be tough to manage with the lists, keywords, etc. I could be wrong as we are not in that space but that would be my assumption.
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Text Request makes it simple to communicate with your team, clients and their teams. We can send messages and they can respond as quickly as needed and all team members have access to the responses so it makes it easy for us to help our clients and their customers. It does not integrate with Service Monster so I don't use TR for my service businesses, only my scheduling center. Easy way to communicate, ask for payments and reviews and keep conversations going.
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Pros
  • User friendly interface
  • A good resource for making sure we maintain compliance with all the privacy policies
  • The text-to-join feature looks awesome. That is the one we are hoping to get started soon.
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  • text clients quickly and efficiently
  • Allow all team members to communicate with all clients and keep the conversation going
  • Templates to easily send regular texts
  • Customer service is better than excellent!
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Cons
  • Easy to find resources for short codes
  • The current automation is nice for beginners but it's not terribly sophisticated for experienced users
  • Minimal integrations to this point but I'm sure more are on the way
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  • I think so far the only improvement I could suggest would be to be able to "un-send" a text within like 30 secs in case you send something out incorrectly.
  • Maybe adding more emojis
  • When sending a file make the size of the pic they see bigger
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Usability
Very easy to use. Intuitive website that our entire team has been able to quickly pick up. In my opinion it is the most user friendly interface of all the software we did demos with.
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Text Request is very user friendly. I started using the Text Request platform on Day 1 without any specific instructions and I was able to figure it out very easily!
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
I have never used the support
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Alternatives Considered
We felt SlickText was the most user friendly, budget friendly, and we liked the fact that they didn't balk at the fact we wanted to go month to month to start so we didn't end up in a long term commitment right out of the gate.
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Zipwhip was our company's go-to text app for years. There is NOTHING that would compete with Text Request. It was so behind it's time. Besides charging for each word typed, the way we needed to use the application just did not fit our needs. We used Zipwhip for at least 5 years and it did not feel like they updated to fit our business needs nor did they implement any strategies that could help our company.
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Return on Investment
  • We are receiving a click through rate anywhere between 12-20% on our renewal reminder texts
  • Those people who click have a conversion rate of around 50% which is the best of any of the campaigns we run
  • One negative could be if we start to use the tool for promotional texts then there may be a negative impact on the member experience. Need to use it in moderation
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  • That is not something we see from an office standpoint. This is something that our Headquarters would keep track of.
  • What I can say is that the amount of patients being scheduled after implementing TR has been in an upward trend.
  • Also patients that missed their appointments are more likely to reschedule when being able to do so with just a text message
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ScreenShots

SlickText Screenshots

Screenshot of Text message marketing software with a toolset that helps grow, engage, and nurture customers.Screenshot of The Platform balances sophistication and simplicity making it easy to start, learn, and grow.Screenshot of For 50 or 500,000 messages, SlickText offers fast send speeds and high delivery rates.Screenshot of Subscriber growth tools to maximize audience size and keep it growing.Screenshot of An automated workflow tool used to create automated SMS sequences that engage with people one-on-one. No coding required.