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Appointment reminders

Three reminders.
Nobody forgets.

Seven days out. One day out. One hour out. Each on its own channel, each sent exactly once, and none of them at three in the morning.

  • 30 minutes to 30 days
  • Email, SMS, or both
  • Never sent twice

Tue 12 Nov · 10:15 M. Delgado · Dr A. Chen

  1. 7 days before Email day Mon 9:00 AM
  2. 1 day before Email · SMS day Mon 9:00 AM
  3. 1 hour before SMS exact Tue 9:15 AM

One appointment · three messages

Timing

You pick the hour.

A reminder can fire exactly so long before the appointment. Or at an hour you choose, on the day. Watch what that does to a Tuesday.

07:15 09:30 12:00 15:45 18:00 20:30
6send times 1inside quiet hours Every reminder follows its own appointment
  • 07:15M. Delgado
  • 09:30A. Whitford
  • 12:00J. Lam
  • 15:45R. Osei
  • 18:00S. Byrne
  • 20:30T. Aoki
  • Thirty minutes to thirty days.

    Set as many reminders as you like. Two cannot share the same offset, so nobody gets the same message twice by accident.

  • Channels are per reminder.

    The seven-day note can go by email while the one-hour one goes by text. They are doing different jobs.

  • One reminder breaks the rule.

    Quiet hours hold for everything except the one-hour message. That one still sends. An appointment in sixty minutes is worth a buzz.

The message

One hundred and sixty characters.

Past that, a text bills as two. So the message measures itself and shortens rather than quietly costing you twice.

Text message Bow Valley Clinic

124 characters 1 segment In full it would have run 163, so it sent the short one
  • CANCELcancels the appointment
  • RESCHEDULEopens the booking to change
  • STOPends every text from the clinic
And by email
  • The subject carries the date and time
  • Provider, when, and the time zone spelled out
  • One button to manage, reschedule or cancel
  • Unsubscribe on every message
  • They can answer it.

    A reminder nobody can reply to is a leaflet. This one takes one word back, and the booking changes.

  • Opting out actually works.

    One STOP, or one click in an email, and the reminders end. The job checks that list before every send.

  • Sent once. Ever.

    Each reminder is written to a log as it goes. A retry or an overlapping run finds it there and sends nothing.

The whole point

Nobody phones round on Monday.

That morning is back. The reminders went out at the hour you chose, and the replies came in on their own.

  1. 7 daysEmail
  2. 1 dayEmail · SMS
  3. 1 hourSMS

Set once · sent for every appointment after that

  • 30 minutes to 30 days
  • Quiet hours respected
  • Never sent twice