In this article:

"Person-to-person” text messaging is for:

• Individual and personal use only
• Casual, everyday conversational texting between individual users

Prohibited Types of Usage:

• Messages with the purpose of business solicitation, spam, or business communications
• Mass marketing communications or spammy, unsolicited texting, etc.
  • If you’re interested in business text messaging and your brand has a government-issued EIN, learn more about activating business Text Messaging with String

Using P2P Messaging with NumberBarn

Text Messaging is available to activate on all call forwarding plans per phone number. There is a cost of $1/mo to activate and use text messaging. See Activating Text Messaging for more details on this process.

Send & Receive Text Messages

• From the NumberBarn mobile app
• One app at a time can use the text messaging feature
  • If two people are logged into the same account from two different devices at the same time, Text Messages can only be sent from one device. The system will prompt the user to verify the app as "this is the app I sent from." This scenario does not apply to most NumberBarn users, but it helps protect against misuse by potential spam texting from the same number on multiple devices.
• See Using Text Messages for details 

View Messages

• From within your NumberBarn account on any web browser

Fraud Protection

• Fair and reasonable daily limits apply to text messages
  • Accounts rapidly sending a thousand messages to hundreds of recipients a day may appear as non-personal use
• Error message notifying that a number's messages have exceeded the daily P2P limit
• Limitations include the following:
  • Excessive messaging per minute
  • Excessive messaging per day
  • Excessive message recipients per day

Background on NumberBarn P2P Classification

Regulatory changes went into effect due to 10DLC regulations in 2024. You can read more here. NumberBarn worked hard to gain access and comply with P2P classification to ensure customers still have access to sending and receiving personal text messages. In order to receive and maintain a P2P classification and text messaging functionality, NumberBarn must show carriers that conversations occur in a way that average consumer texting occurs. Carriers consider “average consumer texting” as occurring between two mobile devices. (This differs from NumberBarn’s previous classification, something called A2P, or Application-to-Person, which is now considered non-consumer, business texting.)