Text Message Reminders, Alerts, Confirmations & Follow-ups
No-shows and missed appointments cost time and money. Smooth operations with scheduled appointment reminders and automatic texts.
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Reduce no-shows and keep your calendar booked.
Why do people miss appointments? Miscommunication. Phone calls go unanswered and emails go unread.
- Reduce no-shows and improve booking rates with text messages.
- Create automatic appointment text message reminders.
- Set up one-time and recurring automatic text messages.
Save time with one-time and recurring scheduled texts.
Scheduled text messages make it easy to set up automated appointment reminders and send out text alerts and updates.
- Schedule one-time and recurring texts to groups or individuals.
- Insert tags to personalize texts at scale - like email merge tags, but for texting.
- Compose unlimited pre-saved templates for appointments, reminder messages, and more.
![text message scheduling](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6349fd438ecb3a3594605225/63e2e92a0033f94e9c589304_text-message-scheduling.webp)
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Confirm, schedule and mange appointments via text.
Set up "text-to" keywords that automatically trigger text message responses for appointment reminders, confirmation, and more.
- Use keywords like “CONFIRM” or “SCHEDULE” to automatically confirm or start the scheduling process.
- Chain keywords together for branching appointment confirmation and rescheduling workflows.
- All text reminders come from a local 10-digit phone number.
Manage expectations with automatic out-of-office texts.
Text contacts, customers, and clients with automatic out-of-office messages. Great for businesses with changing availability.
- Set weekend and weekday availability as-needed.
- Create auto-response text messages based on hours.
- Contacts get instant responses if texting outside of hours.
![setting up office hours](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6349fd438ecb3a3594605225/63e2e8650033f9405b5881da_Automatic-out-of-office-text-messages.webp)
We get along well with your other business tools.
Sync MessageDesk with your accounting software to save time, keep things consistent and get real-time access to customer data.
Additional reminder and follow-up resources.
Check out these additional text alert and appointment reminder resources.
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Using Texts to Stop No Show Appointments & Missed Meetings
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Text Message Reminder & Appointment Confirmation Text Guide
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