Scheduling & appointments

Appointment Reminders and Automatic Text Alerts

No-shows and missed appointments cost time and money. Smooth operations with scheduled appointment reminders and automatic texts.

Too many no-shows and re-bookings? Get up to 98% open rates with text reminders.

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Appointment Reminders

Text or email reminders? Text reminders reduce no-shows and get up to a 98% open rate.

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Scheduled Texts

Schedule upcoming appointment reminder texts hours, days, weeks or months in advance to save time.

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Automatic Autoresponders

Set up keyword-based autoresponders for instant text alerts and answers to questions or inquiries.

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Out-of-Office Messages

Manage expectations and keep things running smoothly with automatic out-of-office texts.

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Appointment reminders

Reduce no-shows and keep your calendar booked.

Why do people miss appointments? Miscommunication. Phone calls go unanswered, emails go to spam and some just record the wrong time.

  • 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.
Schedule 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.
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Autoresponders

Confirm, schedule and mange appointments via text.

Set up "text-to" keywords that automatically trigger text message responses for appointment scheduling and confirmation or hours of operation.

  • 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.
Out-of-office texts

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 on an as-needed basis.
  • Create auto-response text messages based on operating hours.
  • Contacts get instant responses when texting outside of office hours.
Integrations

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 client data.