iMessage

An iMessage line sends your texts as iMessage, so they show up as iMessage on iPhones with your name and photo. It needs no registration, so you can text the same day you get it.

#Get an iMessage line

Open Numbers and click Buy number. Ready asks How do you want to text?
Pick iMessage. On Set up your iMessage line, upload a photo (JPEG or PNG) and type the Name people see.
Click the Pay button, which shows your price and ends in get your line. The first month is charged to the card on your account, or you add one there.

By getting an iMessage line you confirm everyone you text agreed to hear from you. The first text someone gets shows your name and photo, and they can add you to their contacts from it.

#Pricing

The line. A monthly price per line, charged to your card each month.
Texts. A price per segment for each text you send. Segments are counted the same way as regular texts.
Replies. A reply to your iMessage line is charged per segment too. Reactions are free. A reply always reaches you, even when your balance is low.

Your prices are on Settings → Billing under Your price. See Billing and pricing.

An iMessage line comes with a green number for Android phones, unless you already have a number. Texts to Android phones go from your number as regular texts. If your iMessage line came with its green number, your account’s texts bill at the iMessage text price once you register or when you send through GoHighLevel; otherwise they’re at the regular text price.

#Limits

You can text people you already talk to as much as you like. Each line can start up to 50 new conversations a day. You can send someone up to 2 texts until they reply, and photos only after they’ve replied. To reach more new people a day, add another line.

#Manage your line

Your iMessage line shows at the top of Numbers with its name, photo and status. Click the line and then Edit, or pick Edit name and photo in the line’s ⋯ menu, to change them for every line. To get another line, click Buy number and pick iMessage again, or turn on Add lines automatically in the ⋯ menu so Ready adds one when today’s new people are used up.

The same ⋯ menu has Move to sub-account… (when you have sub-accounts) and Cancel iMessage line.

Replies land in the Inbox like any other text, and you answer from the same conversation. iMessage group chats show there too. Campaigns and drip campaigns always send from your regular numbers, never from the iMessage line.

In the Inbox you can send a voice message on an iMessage conversation: click the mic in an empty reply box, record, listen back, then send it. Calls to iPhones from your iMessage line can go by FaceTime Audio, and the call log in Reports → Logs marks those calls FaceTime.

Sending from code? See the iMessage API.

#Common questions

Can I pick the area code? No. Each iMessage line comes with an area code we pick for you.
Can I port an iMessage line to another provider? No. iMessage lines belong to our iMessage partner, so an iMessage line stays with Ready. Your regular numbers are separate.