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Texts and Chats in One Inbox: The Easiest Customer Message Platform You’ll Actually Use Is Coming

New customer message software from VirtualPBX transitions from SMS to MMS to Web Chat and back

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You're Not Too Small for a Better Messaging Setup

Customers reach out in the middle of the night, over the weekend, or right as you’re stepping into a meeting. They start in your website chat, follow up over text, and expect a relatively quick response.

But for most businesses, that means bouncing between inboxes, apps, and platforms just to keep up.

We’re building a customer messaging platform to change that.

It brings chat, SMS, and MMS into one simple inbox, so you can keep the conversation going without losing context. Even have the notes for the customer with you at every step, from billing to the products they use to what their last conversation was about, regardless of the team. Add a shared dashboard and full conversation history, and you’ve got a smarter way to manage messaging without unneeded complexity bogging things down. It’s a simple platform designed to work just like you do.

And this is your invite to help shape it.

Here's What We're working To Solve

Even with live chat and texting tools, and the most robust customer messaging platforms and softwares available, most systems haven’t caught up with the way teams actually work—or the way customers expect to be helped. It’s either too disjointed or too complicated. Here are just a few of the everyday problems we’re aiming to solve.

1. Read/Unread As A Workflow

Most text apps give you two options: read or unread. That’s not enough when you’re juggling billing questions, follow-ups, and time-sensitive messages. Important conversations slip through the cracks, or get buried under the noise of every other channel. 

2. Scattered Conversations

A customer starts in your website chat and follows up over text. Suddenly you’ve got two different threads in two different tools, and no clear way to track what was said or what’s still unresolved.

Check out the new look of VirtualText from VirtualPBX—the simple, streamlined, seamless customer messaging platform.

3. Clunky Team Collaboration

When multiple team members need to weigh in, you’re stuck pasting screenshots into Slack or asking, “Did anyone reply to this?” There’s no shared view of the full conversation or who’s handled what.

4. No Context on Who You’re Talking To

Most inboxes don’t prompt with helpful details—like recent purchases, open invoices, or past support issues. That puts the lift on your team to either look things up in other systems before they reply, or take the risk of not doing that and having a frustrating experience with the customer.

5. Tab Switching All Day Long

Managing messages shouldn’t require bouncing between your chat platform, texting tool, billing system, and CRM. It slows your team down and leads to missed steps.

VirtualPBX VirtualText enhances customer message platform with an organized, streamlined inbox. Plus contacts and teams all in one easy-to-reference dashboard

6. Billing Questions That Break The Flow

When a customer texts in asking about a charge or a subscription, you have to dig through your billing app just to find the answer. It turns a quick response into a time-consuming task.

7. No Clear Owner Or Next Steps

Messages get left hanging because it’s unclear who’s handling what. Without ownership or accountability built in, things stall or efforts overlap.

VirtualPBX VirtualText customer messaging platform.

8. Customers Who Don’t Know If They’re Being Ignored

Messages sit unanswered not because you don’t care, but because the tools make it hard to stay on top of everything. From the customer’s view, it just looks like silence.

A Better Way Is Coming

We’re building a customer messaging platform that fixes these problems without the fuss or the chaos. We’re starting with SMS, MMS, and chat, and ending with a system that works the way your team already thinks. No more disjointed tools or scattered threads.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

Invest in your team. Invest in client retention and growth that lasts.

Want in early? We’re inviting select people and businesses to help shape the beta.

VirtualPBX is an innovative, privately-owned, founder-led, US communications company. We drive human connection virtually from anywhere for businesses at all stages by paving access to enterprise-level tools paired with the friendly, knowledgeable human support and guidance they need to success. We’re glad you’re here.

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