> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sable.salon/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Set up business texting

> Register your business for its own client texting number.

Open **Messages** and choose **Enroll for Messaging** to register your business
for its own texting number. You can also open **Business texting** in
**Settings > Business**. The business owner can complete setup.

Automatic appointment texts work from day one, including booking confirmations,
reminders, confirmation links, payment links, and receipts. Conversations in
Messages turn on when your salon's own number is ready.

## Complete the missing information

Sable uses the business and contact details already on your account. Enter any
missing registration information. Use **Change** if a saved detail needs a
correction.

Choose **My business has an EIN** or **I'm a sole proprietor** when asked. For
an EIN, provide missing legal and tax details. Your saved EIN stays visible so
you can review or edit it. Sole proprietors provide a US or Canadian mobile
number they control; it receives our verification text.

Your progress saves as you go. Return to **Continue setup** to pick up where
you left off.

## Confirm and submit

Check the required confirmations. For standard accounts, the billing card shows
how business texting fits your Stylist or Salon plan. Business texting is
included at no extra fee. During a free trial, you will see the trial end date,
your regular monthly plan price and **Due today: \$0**. On the web, choose **Add
card**. In the iPhone and iPad apps, choose **Add card on the web**. Sable opens
the enrollment page in your browser, where you add the card for your monthly
Sable plan. Return to the app and it checks your billing again so you can
submit. You will not be charged that day, and your free trial stays in place
until the date shown. If your plan is already active, the same card is used for
its regular monthly billing.

Accounts with complimentary access continue without a card. If the billing
check cannot finish, choose **Try again**; your progress stays saved. Then choose **Submit registration**.
You can set a preferred area code. If that area code is unavailable, Sable
assigns a nearby one.

Sable prepares and hosts the messaging privacy, terms and permission pages
for your business. After submission, they are available at your business's
`/policies/sms-privacy`, `/policies/sms-terms` and `/policies/sms-consent` pages.
They show the submitted business identity and prepared wording, without your
tax number, personal contact details or client records.

## Follow your registration

After submission, Messages shows your progress through business verification,
message approval, and number assignment. Review usually takes a few business
days. You can leave and return to the status screen.

If you registered as a sole proprietor, reply **YES** to our verification text.
You do not enter a code in Sable. **Send again** requests another text when the
resend wait has ended; arrival can take a few minutes.
Use **Change** if the verification text needs to go to a different mobile
number, then review the updated details and confirmations before resubmitting.

If a correction is needed, open the status screen, update the requested detail,
and review the application again before resubmitting. When the number is ready,
choose **Open Messages** or **Copy number**.

## How clients give permission

Clients choose appointment texts and marketing texts separately when booking.
Both checkboxes start unchecked, and clients can book without choosing either.
A client-completed form can collect permission for appointment and customer-care
texts. Staff can record permission a client has already given in person, by
phone, or on paper. Forms and staff confirmations do not grant marketing
permission.

Your public permission page shows fictional examples of all three paths. Its
checkboxes cannot be changed, and opening it does not create a client, booking,
or consent record. Clients can reply **STOP** to opt out and **HELP** for help.

See [SMS consent and conversations](/guides/messaging/sms-consent-and-conversations)
for day-to-day texting and conversation access.

**Still stuck?** Visit the [Help Center](/help) to submit a support ticket.


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