Sending capacity

Your registration’s sending capacity can be shared with the sub-accounts under you, so they can text before, or without, a registration of their own. This is where you give each one its share.

#What sharing does

A sub-account that shares sends on your approved registration, from its own numbers. Turn sharing on or off for each sub-account, and pick the default new sub-accounts start with. A sub-account that stops sharing can’t send until it has its own approved registration. When a shared sub-account’s own registration is approved, it moves to it. It keeps its numbers, and they follow the new registration, so there’s nothing to buy.

#Only T-Mobile has a daily cap

Of the big three US carriers, T-Mobile is the only one that caps how many texts a brand can send in a day. It gives your brand one number of texts per day, shared across all of its campaigns, and that number goes up as your registration earns a higher tier. See what sets your speed. Every sub-account that shares your registration draws from that one daily allowance.

#Splitting it across sub-accounts

Give each sharing sub-account a daily limit: one number, in texts a day, counted across all carriers. For example, 20,000 a day for a sub-account that sends a lot, and 2,000 for one that doesn’t. Each sub-account’s page shows how much of its limit it has used today. Your registration shows every sharing sub-account together: its limit, its texts today and what’s left for you.

When a sub-account reaches its limit, its remaining texts for the day are held for tomorrow, and nobody is charged for them. Your own sending isn’t affected.

#Why Ready counts 4 in 10 of each limit against T-Mobile

A daily limit counts texts to every carrier, but only texts to T-Mobile numbers use T-Mobile’s daily allowance. About 1 in 3 US phones is on T-Mobile. Ready counts 4 in 10 of each limit against the daily allowance, which is a little more than that 1 in 3, so a busy day with more T-Mobile numbers than usual still fits. So a sub-account with a 20,000 a day limit uses 8,000 of your T-Mobile daily allowance in the plan.

#When the limits add up to more than the cap

The limits are a plan for dividing one daily allowance, not extra capacity. If the 4 in 10 shares of all your limits add up to more than T-Mobile’s daily number, your registration shows a note saying so. Nothing breaks that day, but if the sub-accounts together send more to T-Mobile numbers than your daily allowance, T-Mobile blocks the extra texts, whichever sub-account sent them. To fix it, lower a limit, or ask for a higher tier: Send faster.