Register your business

#Register

Click Register business on the Registration tab, or anywhere the app offers it. The form opens over the page you’re on, in two steps.

Your business details. Enter your Legal business name, EIN (the 9-digit US federal tax ID) and Business address, then click Continue. A business registered outside the US clicks Don’t have an EIN?, picks its country and enters its own company number instead, like an ABN or a Companies House number. I have an EIN takes you back. Brand approval usually takes 1 to 24 hours.
Choose your number. Choose Buy number and Ready sets one up in the area code you pick. Or choose Use my number and your current number moves to your registration when it’s approved. Then click Pay and register. Ready writes your registration, opt-in page, privacy policy and terms of service, and files them with the carriers.

Your text price doesn’t change when you submit registration. The 500-text limit comes off once your registration is approved and you have a number, and full volume unlocks right away, including for any use case you register later.

Under your number, Priority options offers Priority Registration, with its price beside it. It moves your registration to the front of the line, usually approved in 1 to 2 days, with no date promised.

#Your registration’s page

Click a registration on the Registration tab to open it. Details shows its Status, Vetting, the dates it was Filed and Approved (Pending until carriers approve it) and its Daily limit, beside its Carrier ID and the business it files: legal name, business type, EIN and address. Below that are Sending capacity, if you share your limit with sub-accounts, and its Numbers.

#Turned down or moving

If carriers turn a registration down, its row shows Edit and resubmit. It opens the form on your saved details and shows the carriers' reason. Change only what it names, then resubmit. To move a registration, with its brand, to one of your sub-accounts, use the move a registration API call or message us.

#How it is charged

Submitting your registration charges its first month. There’s no setup fee. If Ready buys you a new number, its monthly price is added to the price at the bottom of the form. Then Registration and your number are monthly. You see today’s charge and the monthly price at the bottom of the form before you click Pay and register; see Billing and pricing. A card on file is required, and the card is charged when you submit, so a declined card files nothing.

Registering over the API? Follow the registration flow in the API reference.