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# Texting Opt-In

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As mass or broadcast texting programs become more popular, we’ve made it easy for campaigns and organizations to ensure they comply with mobile carrier regulations. 

To enable the texting opt-in feature, start by contacting our support team [here](https://help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/requests/new). After our team receives the required information (including your campaign or organization's disclaimer language and links to your privacy policy and terms and conditions), we'll enable texting opt-in for your fundraising Dashboard. 

When contributing, first time and uncookied donors will see a field marked "Cell phone (optional)" when filling out their personal information. This field acts as the texting opt-in, and is where donors can choose to share their phone number with you.  

 

![A screenshot of the cell phone field on an ActBlue contribution form.](https://actblue-img.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/support.actblue.com/Zendesk+Images/Texting+Opt-In/TEXTOPTIN2.jpg)

Returning donors (cookied without saved payment) and ActBlue Express donors (cookied with saved payment information) will see an unchecked box inviting them to opt-in to receive SMS updates. If a donor’s phone number is not cookied or saved to their Express account, users will still see the checkbox that they can use to opt-in, but the phone number field will be blank in your reports.

 

![A screenshot of the opt-in checkbox on an example ActBlue contribution form.](https://actblue-img.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/support.actblue.com/Zendesk+Images/Texting+Opt-In/TEXTOPTIN1.jpg)

The text message opt-in will also work on Spanish forms.

![A screenshot of the opt-in checkbox written in Spanish on a Spanish form.](https://actblue-img.s3.amazonaws.com/support.actblue.com/For+Campaigns+and+Organizations/WorkingWithForms/TextingOptIn/TextOptIn2.png)

Your opt-in and opt-out data is available in your spreadsheet exports and webhooks.

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