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Manage your text message balance
Manage your text message balance
Reach out to clients with updates and campaigns using text messages. Learn how your free monthly text message allowance works and enable automatic top-ups to reach more clients.
Getting started
Before you begin managing your text message balance:
- If you are a team member make sure you request permission to access Wallet and card processing.
- Add a default payment method that can be used for top-ups.
How text allowance works
Your text message balance allows you to send automated messages to clients, improving communication. Your balance consists of a monthly quota provided by Fresha, plus any additional top-ups you choose to add. These are managed separately, giving you flexibility in how you use them. Here’s how it works:
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Free monthly allowance:
You'll receive a free quota of text messages monthly, based on your account activity, automatically renewed on the 1st of each month.For example, if your allowance is 20 messages and you use only 10, you'll have 20 messages available again from the 1st of the next month.
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Balance top-up:
If you need more than the monthly free text message allowance, you can purchase additional text messages through manual or automatic top-ups. These purchased messages do not expire and will remain in your balance until they are used, irrespective of the monthly reset.
The ability to send a text message are not yet available in all countries. We are working hard to introduce this feature to more regions.
Topping up manually
If you need more than your free monthly allowance, you can make a one-time purchase to cover your immediate text message needs.
To top-up your text messages balance:
- Open Workspace settings, select Billing then Text messages.
- Review the current number of text messages remaining.
- Click Top up and select Next step, then One-time purchase.
- Under Top-up details enter the number of text messages you want to top up text balance by.
- Review your Payment method. You can Change the card on file or use your Fresha credits.
- Review the total cost within your Order summary.
- Click Pay.
Enabling automatic top-ups
You can set up repeat payments so that your text messages always keep sending.
To enable automatic top-ups:
- Open Workspace settings, select Billing then Text messages.
- Review the current number of text messages remaining for the month.
- Click Enable auto Top-ups.
- Under Top-up details enter the number of text messages you want to top up by and set a threshold for when the top-up should trigger.
- Review your Payment method or Change the card on file if needed.
- Review the total cost within your summary.
- Click Enable.
Managing automatic top-ups
You can manage your automatic top-up settings at any time.
Update automatic text message top-ups
To update automatic top-ups:
- Open Workspace settings, select Billing then Text messages.
- Click Top up and select Next step, then Automatic top-ups.
- Select Next step.
- Make changes as needed.
- Click Save.
Disable automatic text message top-ups
If automatic top-ups are disabled, your text message balance may run out, causing your messages to stop sending.
To disable automatic top-ups:
- Open Workspace settings, select Billing then Text messages.
- Click on the three dots and select Disable auto top-ups.
- Click Disable now to reconfirm.
FAQs
- Cardholder name
- Card type (Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, etc)
- Last four digits of the card (do not share your CVV)
- The name of the bank the card is registered with
Yes, confirmation text messages sent to clients for upfront payments and card capture policies will be deducted from your text allowance.
Your current balance is visible under Text messages in your Workspace settings and will update on the 1st of every month.
No, there is no fee. Fresha allows you to send emails at no cost.
If you're experience any issues with your text message allowance top-up, reach out to us via the contact us form using your registered email, providing us with: