How to send bulk texts via Google Voice from a spreadsheet
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 Google Voice texting process. It basically gives you mail merge sending for Google Voice! 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:
Step One: Sign up for Google Voice
Google Voice is a VOIP service that comes free with your Google account. It basically gives you a phone number that you can place calls and send texts from online (or through Google’s app). You can set up Google Voice here: https://voice.google.com/.
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.
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! Here is a full walk through guide to using the CSV Upload functionality: https://www.bulktexterpro.com/docs/getting-started/using-csv-upload/
Wrapping Up
Hopefully you find Bulk Texter Pro to be a huge help to your workflow!
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.
