Orders

Order and shipping texts for your app.

Order confirmations, shipping updates, delivery alerts — the messages a customer looks for after they buy.

Free to author & testNo credit cardUS & Canada

9:41
Saturday, June 13

Acme: Your order #1024 is out for delivery today. Track it: yourapp.com/track

Our free message templates are live.
Sending arrives Summer 2026.

The moment

A text can change the outcome.

A package needs a signature and the customer is at work. The delivery text gets there in time to redirect it, before the driver leaves.

Acme: Your order #1024 is out for delivery today. Track it or reschedule: yourapp.com/track
Caught it in time
The messages

Orders messages, included.

All nine message categories are included — one registration.

Order confirmed

Acme: Order ORD-2026-90413 confirmed. Arrives Thursday. We'll text you when it ships. Reply STOP to opt out.

Order processing

Acme: Order ORD-2026-90413 is being prepared. We'll text you when it ships. Reply STOP to opt out.

Order shipped

Acme: Order ORD-2026-90413 has shipped. Track it: track.ups.com/x9k2. Arrives Thursday. Reply STOP to opt out.

Out for delivery

Acme: Order ORD-2026-90413 is out for delivery today. Track it: track.ups.com/x9k2 Reply STOP to opt out.

Order delivered

Acme: Order ORD-2026-90413 was delivered. Something wrong? Start here: yourapp.com/returns Reply STOP to opt out.

Return started

Acme: Your return for order ORD-2026-90413 is started. Track its status: yourapp.com/returns Reply STOP to opt out.

The variables

Make the messages yours, without breaking them.

Preview every message, edit the wording, or add your own fields. The parts that keep you compliant stay locked.

Preview with your data

Enter a value once and it shows in every message.

1024
ConfirmationEdit
Acme: Your order #1024 is out for delivery today. Track it: yourapp.com/track
Insert variable
CancelSave

Customize any message

Open the variable list and drop one in.

ConfirmationEdit
Acme: Your order #1024 is out for delivery today. Track it: yourapp.com/track
Insert variable
workspace_nameAcme
order_number1024
tracking_linkyourapp.com/track
delivery_datetoday
CancelSave
The details

Q&A: Order messages

Do I need to send every step in the lifecycle, or just some?

Just the ones that matter to your customer at that moment. Confirmed and shipped are the minimum — they bracket the wait. Out for delivery and delivered add detail for customers who track obsessively. Processing, return, and refund are there when you need them.

Can I add an offer to the delivery confirmation?

No — order messages can't carry promotions. A delivered text with a discount code changes its legal classification from transactional to marketing, which requires separate consent. Keep the order flow clean; run promotions through the marketing channel.

My carrier already sends tracking texts — won't customers get two?

Sometimes, yes. Carrier notifications are generic. Yours come from your business name, link to your tracking page, and can include your return flow. Most customers don't mind two if the second one adds something.

What happens if delivery fails?

The carrier handles it. Failed deliveries, address issues, and weather delays go through carrier-direct notifications. RelayKit's order messages cover the lifecycle your system controls — confirmation through refund.

The paperwork

You build the feature. We handle the bureaucracy.

Every text message carries a stack of carrier rules. We've read all of it, so you don't have to.

Registration handled

Getting approved on your own can take weeks.

Most registrations clear in about three days. We handle the filing, so you can keep building your app.

Messages compliant

Send the wrong kind of message and carriers block it — silently.

Every message is checked against carrier rules before it sends, not just passed through.

Opt-ins & opt-outs covered

Miss a single STOP and the fines add up fast.

We stop instantly. Consent is tracked and enforced at delivery, not wired up by you.

The build

Give your AI tool a build spec, not a pile of docs.

RelayKit generates implementation instructions for your AI tool. Messages, variables, event triggers, testing steps, and integration guidance arrive for smooth integration.

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import { RelayKit } from 'relaykit';

const relaykit = new RelayKit();

await relaykit.appointments.sendConfirmation(customer.phone, {
  date: 'Fri, Jun 6',
  time: '2:00 PM',
});

That's the send.

The test

Preview list

Your safe audience for sending test messages, before and after launch.

  • JoelVerified
    (555) 867-8842
  • SarahVerified
    (555) 412-5519
  • MikeInvited
    (555) 290-3301
+ Invite someone

Run test messages through real phones.

Add yourself, your team, your beta testers. Each person verifies once. After that, your app's messages work for them exactly the way they'll work for customers.

Trigger your real flows — a booking, a code, a reminder — and see the whole loop land: sent, delivered, your database updated.

The process

What it takes to go live.

No telecom expertise required. We handle the carrier side.

01 · PLAN

Choose your messages

Pick the messages your app needs from templates that already know the rules.

Browse the messages →
02 · BUILD

Build and test

Hand the spec to your AI tool, then test the full flow on real phones before launch.

03 · LAUNCH

Go live

RelayKit handles registration and delivery. A few days to approval.

The price

Simple pricing.

Stage 1

Build for free

Set up your messages. Add the code to your app. Test with real phones. No credit card.

Stage 2

Go live for $49 + $19/mo

We file your registration with carriers. Approval takes a few days. 500 messages included per month, then $8 per additional 500. Full refund if you're not approved.

What $19/mo includes.

500 messages a month
Your own sending number
Delivery, opt-outs & quiet hours
A hosted compliance site
Carrier rule-change tracking

Marketing messages add $10/mo. Volume pricing above 5,000 messages. US and Canada at launch. We don't handle HIPAA, healthcare-regulated workflows, or enterprise procurement.

The numbers

When a message can't wait, send a text.

Messages from an app only work when someone sees them. Here's how text and email compare.

Gets opened
Text message98%
Email~20%
Time to first open
Text message~90 sec
Email~90 min
Gets a reply
Text message~45%
Email~6%
Gets through
Text message~98%
Email~84%

Industry SMS-vs-email benchmarks, 2025–26 — open and response from SMS-marketing aggregates; email inbox placement from Validity's 2025 deliverability report. SMS open is inferred from delivery, not pixel-tracked; reported email open rates are distorted by tracking-pixel prefetch and blocking.

The problem

The rules show up after you start building.

US carriers require these from every business that sends texts. Getting approved can take weeks if not done right.

Registration

Before anything sends, your business gets registered in a central registry that every US carrier checks — legal name, tax ID, website, and what you plan to send. Details have to match your IRS records exactly, or the application bounces.

RelayKit collects this during setup and files the registration for you.

Carrier review

Reviewers check your registration and your messages against carrier rules before you're allowed to send. Other providers typically take two to three weeks — and every rejection restarts the clock, with no guarantee the next round clears.

RelayKit submissions are prepared to pass the first time; approval typically takes a few days.

Consent requirements

You have to collect and keep proof that every recipient agreed to get texts from you — how they opted in, when, and which kinds of messages they agreed to. Someone who signed up for appointment reminders hasn't agreed to marketing.

RelayKit provides the opt-in language and keeps the consent records automatically.

Build a compliance website

Reviewers visit your website looking for a privacy policy with specific mobile-data language, posted terms, and a visible description of your texting program. A missing or half-finished site is the single most common reason registrations get rejected.

RelayKit generates and hosts a compliance site for you — privacy policy, terms, and opt-in page included.

STOP and HELP handling

A reply of STOP has to halt messages to that person immediately, and HELP has to get a real answer — automatically, every time. Getting it wrong is a fast way to get a number shut down.

RelayKit handles both at the delivery layer; when someone replies STOP, we stop.

Message restrictions

Carriers limit what businesses can say over text: entire content categories are banned, links get scrutinized, and messages outside your registered use case can get your number flagged. The rules live across multiple carrier policies, and they change.

RelayKit's templates already follow them, and custom messages are checked before they send — not just passed through.

The start

The messages are ready now. Sending arrives Summer 2026.

You can start with the messages today. When sending launches, your AI tool wires up the integration, you test on real phones, and registration and opt-outs stay handled behind the scenes.

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