Election season 2025 is in full swing, and as you prep for important elections in 2026, your texting strategy will be essential for meeting your organizing goals and fundraising needs.
Whether you’ve got an upcoming election, advocacy push, or progressive fight to win, we’d love to help. We’ve received some common questions about short code and want to share those answers with you. Plus, we’re excited to share some new short code features to help you target your audience even more precisely.
Common questions about short code:
How can short code help me meet my goals?
What is unique about a short code at Scale to Win?
What short code features will help me track and target my supporter list?
How can short code help me meet my goals?
Personalized branding. Think of short code as another tool in your toolbox to reach supporters. With a five-digit number that you keep over time, you have personalized branding for your organization that contacts can save and interact with over time. A defined number that makes it easy to build sustained relationships with your opted-in membership list.
Easily collect opt-ins. A short number makes it easier to collect opt-ins in areas beyond web forms. For example, running a digital ad that asks people to text JOIN to 40401 for a special discount or using a CHECKIN keyword at a community rally.
Flexibility. With Scale to Win Text, you can easily create texting programs all in one program. With both types of numbers in one place, you can test messages with short code audiences and then send the best-performing ones to your long code audiences. And with our suppression feature, you can automatically remove short-code subscribers from your long-code campaigns.
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What is unique about a short code at Scale to Win?
With a Scale to Win short code, you don’t have to choose between the features you want and the best pricing.
We offer specific targeting and filtering, so the right message goes to only the supporters on your list who are the best fit. And with our competitive pricing, you have the opportunity to be even more efficient with your texting budget.
A few more reasons why you should consider a short code with us: ➡️
Affordable rates
💲Rates as low as 0.7 cents per SMS segment and 1.75 cents per MMS message with a 12-month commitment
Fast registration
📝 Migrate an existing short code or register a new short code quickly with our industry-leading registration operations team. Learn more about their process and why they’re the best in our space at making the complex simple.
Speedy sends
⚡With the ability to send millions of messages per hour, Scale to Win Text will make sure your messages will deliver lightning fast.
What short code features will help me track and target my supporter list?
We’ve recently added even more features to help you get granular with your list. And stay tuned, we’ll be adding new ways to target and filter your supporter list over the next few weeks!
📍Location fields: You can now add and map location fields to your subscriber data through data uploads or integrations with ActBlue and ActionKit. You can then use location data as a merged field in campaigns.
🎯Target by location: When creating a campaign, you can target subscribers based on their zip code and/or state, without having to pull that data from another program or database.
💬Custom fields: You can create and manage custom fields for your short code subscribers and use that information as a merged field in messages. Whether you're tracking issue interest, polling locations, or favorite colors, custom fields can help make your job easier.
Plus, all of our short code customers get access to features and perks that come standard with Scale to Win Text:
Our all–in–one texting platform includes lightning-fast sending speeds, the best security in the ecosystem, proven platform stability, responsive customer support, plus features like link tracking, personalized GIFs, and essential tech integrations like ActBlue, ActionKit, and NGP VAN.
