diff --git a/app/templates/views/check/ok.html b/app/templates/views/check/ok.html
index 9ecc6387c..3f665d683 100644
--- a/app/templates/views/check/ok.html
+++ b/app/templates/views/check/ok.html
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
         ) }}
       {% endif %}
       {% if (template.template_type != 'letter' or not request.args.from_test) and not letter_too_long %}
-      <button type="submit" class="button">Send {{ count_of_recipients }} {{ message_count_label(count_of_recipients, template.template_type, suffix='') }}</button>
+      <button type="submit" class="button">Send {{ count_of_recipients|format_thousands }} {{ message_count_label(count_of_recipients, template.template_type, suffix='') }}</button>
       {% else %}
         <a href="{{ url_for('main.check_messages_preview', service_id=current_service.id, template_id=template.id, upload_id=upload_id, filetype='pdf') }}" download class="button">Download as a PDF</a>
       {% endif %}
diff --git a/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py b/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
index 913299f14..8846ebdca 100644
--- a/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
+++ b/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
@@ -2162,6 +2162,36 @@ def test_letter_can_only_be_sent_now(
     )
 
 
+def test_send_button_is_correctly_labelled(
+    client_request,
+    mocker,
+    mock_get_live_service,
+    mock_get_service_template,
+    mock_get_users_by_service,
+    mock_get_service_statistics,
+    mock_get_job_doesnt_exist,
+    mock_get_jobs,
+    fake_uuid,
+):
+    mocker.patch('app.main.views.send.s3download', return_value='\n'.join(
+        ['phone_number'] + (['07900900123'] * 1000)
+    ))
+    mocker.patch('app.main.views.send.set_metadata_on_csv_upload')
+
+    page = client_request.get(
+        'main.check_messages',
+        service_id=SERVICE_ONE_ID,
+        upload_id=fake_uuid,
+        template_id=fake_uuid,
+    )
+
+    assert normalize_spaces(
+        page.select_one('[type=submit]').text
+    ) == (
+        'Send 1,000 text messages'
+    )
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('when', [
     '', '2016-08-25T13:04:21.767198'
 ])