Texts get read. Email doesn't.
Marketing emails sit unopened. A text gets looked at. The problem has never been whether SMS works for a small shop — it's that setting it up is fiddly and every app that does it charges a monthly fee, takes a cut of your sales, or both.
VelTxt is an SMS marketing app for Shopify stores. It reads your store, writes your text messages for you, and sends them. You pay for the texts and nothing else.
Status: not yet launched. VelTxt is in development and is going through Shopify app review and toll-free carrier verification. No merchant is using it in production yet, and we make no claims about results.
What it writes for you
On install, VelTxt reads your products, your customer reviews and your recent orders, then writes five sets of messages:
| Flow | When it sends |
|---|---|
| Welcome | When someone opts in to your texts |
| Abandoned cart | After a shopper adds to cart and leaves |
| Abandoned checkout | After a shopper starts checkout and leaves |
| Browse abandonment | After a subscriber views a product and leaves |
| Weekly promo | Once a week, on one product |
Every message you can review and edit before it goes out, and you can switch any flow off.
Quotes are never invented. When a message quotes a customer, the quote is taken word-for-word from a real review on your store. A message that can't find a real quote goes out without one.
An example message
This is a real message VelTxt generated during development, for a test store called Wildroot Wellness. The quoted words come verbatim from a review of that product. {{link}} is replaced with the link to the product page when the message is sent.
Pricing
Free to install. No monthly fee, no subscription, no revenue share, no per-contact charge. You pay two cents per text message sent and nothing else. Billing runs through Shopify.
How SMS opt-in works
Shoppers give their phone number on the merchant's own Shopify store — either at checkout or through a sign-up form on the store's website. They opt in by ticking a box asking to receive marketing text messages. That box is never pre-ticked. The shopper has to tick it themselves.
The wording next to that box tells the shopper what they are agreeing to: that they will receive marketing text messages from that store, that message frequency varies, and that message and data rates may apply.
Consent is never a condition of purchase. A shopper can buy from the store without giving a phone number and without agreeing to texts.
Every text we send tells the recipient how to stop. Reply STOP to any message at any time and the texts stop. Reply HELP for help, or email veltxt@shimistyle.me.
Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
The merchant keeps a record of each opt-in — where it came from, when it happened, and the exact wording the shopper agreed to. We only send to phone numbers that have opted in.
Texts are sent from +1 888-531-1103. For questions about how your number is handled, see the privacy policy.
Who we are
- Operator
- VelTxt
- veltxt@shimistyle.me
- Sending number
- +1 888-531-1103
Questions from merchants, shoppers, carriers or app reviewers all go to the same address, and we answer them.