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.


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.


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.

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.

Using Texts to Stop No Show Appointments & Missed Meetings

Text Message Reminder & Appointment Confirmation Text Guide
