Bulk SMS messaging desktop via phone contract

Hi,
My small business sends thousands of messages per month to our database to find out their availability for work. At present we currently use an online software that we pay for. However, we have a work mobile phone on a monthly contract with unlimited text messages.
The list of people we need to contact changes per job so no list is ever the same. Is there a way for us to some how import our excel file, type a group message to everyone and then send using the messages on our price plan? It would be ideal if we could view it on the computer rather than on the phone for speed and ease...
Does anyone have any ideas?!

The iPhone Messages app does not allow for group messaging to large groups of people. To my knowledge, it is 10 maximum. There are apps for the phone to create groups in the App store, but I believe they have to comply with the 10 maximum as well. This may have changed, but I'm not sure, since I don't use group messaging. If your lists are shorter than that, you could create groups, and you also have the option to connect the iPhone to a Mac computer to use Messaging from the phone, but I'm not sure if that changes the list rules or not.

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