Include More Information in Email Alerts

You can now include in your email alerts information provided by clients when they book and cancel appointments online.

If you have added custom booking fields under Setup > Booking Details, you can choose to include client answers in the email alerts you receive each time a client books online. This is a great way to know when a client has made a special request or supplied information critical to providing the service. Just be sure to consider your clients’ confidentiality when deciding whether to include this information in your email alerts. Of course, you can still access this information on appointment details on the Schedule tab.

More_Info_AlertsYou can also choose to include in your email alerts any notes written by a client when they cancel an appointment online. With this information, you’ll know if you need to follow up with your client right away or otherwise take action.

By default, answers to custom booking fields and cancelation notes are not included in email alerts. To start, go to Messages > Alerts and check the boxes at the bottom of the page.

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New Number for SMS Alerts & Reminders

Just a heads-up – text message alerts to staff and reminders to clients are now sent from a different number.  In the U.S., automated SMS messages now come from “36070;” this is a short code that is approved by all wirelss carriers.  Outside the U.S., texts are sent from (317) 662-2222.

We had several reports yesterday that Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile were not delivering messages from our previous number, so some clients and staff may not have received the text alerts or reminders that we sent. We apologize for the disruption; the third-party we use (and pay) to send SMS assures us that should not be an issue going forward.

Oh, almost forgot – SMS reminders now show up in the sidebar under Message History on Client > Details!  And if anyone attempts to reply or call the short code, we let them know it’s a robot and that they should contact you instead.  🙂

UPDATE:

Some providers treat short codes differently than regular numbers, so here are measures you can take if you’re on one of the following and not receiving alerts (or your clients can take if they’re not receiving SMS reminders):

T-Mobile — By default, T-Mobile does not enable receipt of SMS’s from short codes, so contact T-Mobile and ask them to enable the receipt of SMS’s from short codes.

Sprint — Sprint will sometimes block short codes, so text “allow 36070” to the number “9999”. You should then receive a response indicating you can now receive SMS’s from our short code.

Google Voice — Google Voice does not support the receipt of SMS’s from short codes, so you’ll need to use your actual mobile number for alerts from Full Slate. Please update your number under Account > My Profile and Setup > Staff.

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