TextRetailer, based in Iowa City, provides a conversational commerce platform that lets merchants send curated product offers via text and capture credit card and shipping information for a mobile “zero-click” checkout. Merchants send offers to opted-in subscriber lists; recipients can purchase by replying “yes” or indicating a quantity, and merchants receive order information for fulfillment. The platform also supports two-way SMS conversations for customer service and feedback. TextRetailer highlights strong engagement metrics (roughly 98% of text messages are opened) and reports merchant success stories, including single texts generating over $40,000 in sales and top merchants selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of products. The company says TinySeed’s funding and mentor network will help it provide its text-to-order technology to more merchants and customers.

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Jul 2022