Add or Edit Teams that Receive Texts
If you've enabled text messaging for your church, you can change which serving teams receive texts.
Warning:
You can add or edit the serving teams that receive texts. Text messages are sent to volunteers when a team leader creates an Inbox message, assigns a volunteer to a schedule, removes a volunteer from a schedule, or sets up system-generated reminders.New sign-ups for Realm texting are currently disabled.
We have extended our partnership with Constant Contact to provide a SMS texting solution as an option for Realm. Click for more information.
You can export your existing Realm texting opt-in records to import into Constant Contact.
If you include all opted-in individuals, individuals can later edit their notification settings if they no longer wish to receive texts from a specific team.
- In the top-left corner, click your site name then Realm. Then click .
- Click Edit Settings, and then the Connect Inbox Text tab.
- Click the + Add Serving Team tab.
- To add a new serving team, click the Add Serving Team tab. Then, enter the serving team name in the Search serving teams... drop-down menu, and select the team.
- To remove a serving team, locate the team's name in the list, and click
. Select Remove, and select whether to send a cancellation email to team members. Then click Remove.
- Select Include Opted-In next to a team to automatically send text messages to all opted-in individuals in that team. This will also add that team to the individual's text notification settings.
- Click Save.