How to send bulk texts via Android from a spreadsheet

Brian Smith
@brismuth’s blog
Published in
3 min readNov 20, 2023

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Maybe you’re a teacher and you’re wanting to text your students their scores for a recent test, or maybe you’re wanting to send a reminder to your students to turn in an assignment, but you only want to text the ones who haven’t turned it in.

Or maybe you’re a volunteer group organizer, and you need to send out reminders about upcoming shifts to your volunteers.

Sending out individual texts would be an extremely painstaking process, and could take upwards of an hour, just for a typical class of 30 students.

That’s where Bulk Texter Pro comes in. Bulk Texter Pro is a browser extension that streamlines the Android texting process. It supports CSV upload, scheduling messages in advance, and even sending photos. The best part is that it costs just $4.99 a month — just a flat fee, with no cost per text.

Bulk Texter Pro enables you to send completely customized individual text messages to each recipient — including photos. You can write a message once for the whole class, then pipe in values like test scores, names, and school subjects from a spreadsheet. No one sees anyone else’s phone number, just yours. And it can save you hours and hours of effort.

You can see a demo of Bulk Texter Pro at work with CSV upload here, but with Google Voice instead of Android:

Demo Video

Step One: Sign into the Google Messages web portal using your Android phone.

The Google Messages web portal allows you to send texts on your Android phone via your computer’s web browser. Bulk Texter Pro then integrates seamlessly with the web portal in order to send your texts. The web portal is free to use, and just requires that you have an Android phone running Android 5 or later.

Step Two: Install Bulk Texter Pro

Bulk Texter Pro is available on Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. You can download it from the official extension/add-on stores on the Downloads page: https://www.bulktexterpro.com/downloads/

Step Three: Start using Bulk Texter Pro

Bulk Texter Pro will open automatically the first time you install it, but you can also open it any time using the Bulk Texter Pro icon to the right of your browser URL bar.

The Bulk Texter Pro icon

Bulk Texter Pro will walk you through the account registration process, but if you run into any issues, you can check out this guide on how to sign up: https://www.bulktexterpro.com/docs/getting-started/installing-it.

Once you’ve registered your account, you can start sending bulk texts! As long as you have RCS messaging set up in the Google Messages app on your phone, it should work automatically with Bulk Texter Pro as well.

Here is a full walk through guide to using the CSV Upload functionality: https://www.bulktexterpro.com/docs/getting-started/using-csv-upload/

You can also find a full guide to using Bulk Texter Pro with Android here:
https://www.bulktexterpro.com/docs/texting-platforms/android/

Wrapping Up

Hopefully you find Bulk Texter Pro to be a huge help to your workflow!

Note that texts may be rate limited by your cellphone carrier. If you run into any issues or have any questions or feedback, reach out to support@bulktexterpro.com — we’re typically quick to respond and happy to help.

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