Messagey! Tips are our way of telling you how to get the most out of Messagey! – featuring nifty tips and tricks, these tips will enable additional uses and features of the Messagey! app.

Google Voice is clever tool from Google that optimises telecommunications, featuring voicemail transcription, a single number for all your phones and SMS to email, all for free. You can setup Google Voice to forward your text messages to send to your Messagey! email, which means you can send and receive texts from a phone number (instead of a ‘@messagey.com’ email address) straight within the Messagey! app.

Setup (Click on the images to enlarge)

1) Login to your Google Voice account.  Go to ‘Settings’, then ‘Voice Settings’.

2) Go to tab ‘Voicemail & Text’, select ‘Add a new email address’.

3) Type in your ‘@messagey.com’ email address in the ‘Add an additional email address’ box, then click ‘Save’.

4) You’ll be sent a verification email to your Messagey! email account.

5) A new contact will appear with the Google Voice verification.  Scroll down to the part with ‘https://www.google …’.   Tap the ‘>’ arrow.

6) Tap the open link starting with ‘https://www.google…’, A web view will open.  Enter your password.

7) Your ‘@messagey.com’ email is now validated with Google Voice.

8 ) Go back to your ‘Voicemail & Text’ section; you may need to switch tabs back and forth to refresh the screen.  Make sure ‘Email the message to:’ is checked.   In the drop down select your ‘@messagey.com’ email address.  Save.  On the same screen make sure ‘Forward text messages to my email’ is checked.  Save.  (Note: If you don’t want duplicates coming to your mobile phone, just uncheck ‘Mobile’ under  ‘Sent a text (SMS) to’.)

9) Now if someone texts your Google Voice number, it appears inside Messagey!   Any replies also will look like they came from your Google Voice number!