Additional conversations ($15 per 100)
When you use your plan's included conversations, Textiful keeps taking text-ins and adds extra conversations in blocks of 100 for $15 on your next bill. You can set a monthly limit.
Your keywords and QR codes keep working after you've used your plan's included conversations. Extra conversations are $15 per 100, added to your next bill automatically, so nobody at your event is turned away.
How extras are billed
- Extras come in blocks of 100 for $15. The first extra conversation in a month adds a block, which covers that one and the next 99.
- Blocks are added to your next invoice. Nothing is charged to your card mid-month.
- The first time you go over in a billing month, owners and admins get an email: "Your business has used this month's included conversations".
- Settings > Billing shows how many extras you've had this month and what they've added to your next bill.
If you go over most months, a plan with more included conversations usually costs less. Compare them on pricing.
Set a limit on extras
If you'd rather cap the spend:
- Go to Settings > Billing.
- Under Conversations this month, click Set a limit on extra conversations.
- Turn on Limit extra conversations each month.
- Enter a Monthly limit in dollars. Below the field, Textiful shows how many extra conversations that allows.
- Save.
To change or remove it later, click Change limit.
With a limit, new text-ins stop once that month's extras reach it. People who text in are told "This keyword is not active right now. Please check back soon." At a live event, that can mean the room goes quiet, so set the limit with your biggest event in mind. People already partway through a flow can finish.
Frequently asked questions
- Do my keywords stop working when I use up my conversations?
- No. On a paid plan, text-ins keep coming in past your included conversations and extras are billed automatically. They only stop if you set a monthly limit and reach it.
- Do I have to buy extra conversations ahead of time?
- No. There's nothing to buy. Extras are added automatically, in blocks of 100, as you need them.