Migrating from iBluSend to Blue Reacher
The short answer
Switching from iBluSend to Blue Reacher takes up to 2 business days to the first send, and most of the work is ours. Your contacts and opt-outs live in your CRM, so they come with you; your sequences get rebuilt on a managed dedicated line during onboarding. The Macs and phones you ran for iBluSend stay yours and go back to being ordinary devices.
Key takeaways
- Teams move from iBluSend to Blue Reacher when running the hardware starts costing more than the software saves.
- Most of what matters lives in your CRM, so it survives the switch untouched.
- The iBluSend to Blue Reacher switch runs in three short steps, and your team's part is about an hour.
- Running iBluSend and Blue Reacher side by side for a week is the safe default.
- iBluSend's software is cheaper per line; Blue Reacher's line is cheaper per hour of your team's time.
What changes
The channel and the number. Blue bubbles from a dedicated line instead of green ones, with RCS then SMS behind it.
What stays
Your CRM, your funnel stages, your sequences and your contact history. Replies, delivery states and opt-outs post back to the same records.
What we do
The line, the area code, the integration, the workflows and the first scripts. Setup is white-glove; you run a parallel window and cut over when it is beating what you had.
What the bill is made of
Why do teams move from iBluSend to Blue Reacher?
Teams move from iBluSend to Blue Reacher when running the hardware starts costing more than the software saves.
- Outbound volume: iBluSend's default is 30 new contacts per line a day, and its limits page names large cold sends as a wrong-choice case
- Hardware: a Mac per four lines and a phone, number and Apple ID per line, all owned and fixed by your team
- Campaigns: iBluSend ships AI chat agents on your own AI key; Blue Reacher builds the sequences with you
- Support: 24 to 48 hours on business days at iBluSend, against 24/7 1:1 Slack support on every Blue Reacher plan
What do you keep and what changes?
Most of what matters lives in your CRM, so it survives the switch untouched.
Contacts
- What happens
- Stay in your CRM; nothing to export from iBluSend
Opt-outs
- What happens
- Pulled from your CRM and loaded before the first Blue Reacher send
Sequences and workflows
- What happens
- Rebuilt on the new line during onboarding, with your copy as the starting point
Your number
- What happens
- Stays with you; the new Blue Reacher line arrives with its own dedicated number and a custom area code
Macs and phones
- What happens
- Yours to keep, sell or repurpose
Conversation history
- What happens
- Stays in your CRM where it synced; nothing new is lost
What does the migration look like, day by day?
The iBluSend to Blue Reacher switch runs in three short steps, and your team's part is about an hour.
- Day 0: the demo. Bring your CRM login and the sequences you run today
- Day 1: the line is provisioned with a custom area code, RCS then SMS fallback, and your CRM connected
- Day 1 to 2: sequences rebuilt, opt-outs loaded, first sends live
- After launch: check-ins tune the copy and the pacing against real replies
Everything above describes the mechanism. The Blue Funnel Map marks the stages where your own funnel is losing replies, and you keep the map whether or not you buy.
Map this against your funnelWhat should run in parallel during the switch?
Running iBluSend and Blue Reacher side by side for a week is the safe default. Leave iBluSend answering the conversations already open on your old lines, and start new outreach on the Blue Reacher line.
- Once the open threads go quiet, switch the old lines off. Nobody gets a message from two numbers, and no reply lands on a line nobody is watching.
How does the cost actually compare?
How does the cost actually compare?
iBluSend's software is cheaper per line; Blue Reacher's line is cheaper per hour of your team's time.
- iBluSend Pro is $199 a month for 5 lines plus two Macs, five phones and five carrier plans you run. Five Blue Reacher lines are $995 a month at $199 a line, with nothing to buy.
- The question that settles it is who on your team owns uptime today, and what that person would close with the hours back.
Frequently asked questions
Do my opt-outs carry over from iBluSend?
Yes. Opt-outs live in your CRM, and onboarding loads them before the first Blue Reacher send, so nobody who said stop hears from the new line.
Do I keep my iBluSend phone number?
The number and Apple ID you used with iBluSend stay yours, per iBluSend's own facts page. Your Blue Reacher line arrives with its own dedicated number and a custom area code.
How long does switching from iBluSend take?
Up to 2 business days from the demo to the first send. Your team's part is about an hour: the demo, the CRM connection and a review of the rebuilt sequences.
What happens to my Macs and phones?
Nothing you have to do. Blue Reacher lines are managed for you, so the devices you ran for iBluSend go back to being ordinary devices.
Do I need A2P 10DLC registration after switching?
No. Blue Reacher's iMessage lines need no A2P registration, the same as iBluSend's iMessage sends.
Move the list, keep the momentum
Bring your CRM and your current sequences to the demo. Blue Reacher rebuilds them on a managed line, loads your opt-outs, and gets you sending within up to 2 business days.