Always something there to remind me

February 24, 2017 | Phil Smith

1 min read

Customer reminders are becoming more and more essential to our users. Alongside deposits, they are one of the key ways that you can ensure that your tables don’t end up empty through a no show. Have you set them up yet?

setting up customer reminders

It’s easy to set up automated reminders. In your simpleERB advanced settings, you will find an option called booking reminders under the general settings. You can choose whether you want to send email reminders or SMS reminders. If you want to send SMS messages, you’ll need some credits. Just drop us an email for prices and how to add.
The messages will be pre-populated with the date and time of the customers booking and you can add in an additional message for them. We suggest something along the lines of a prompt which would serve as a reminder to the customer to cancel their booking if they can no longer make it.
You can set up more than one reminder so that the customer gets a message maybe one or two weeks prior to the booking and then again 24 hours beforehand.

free up tables

In giving this extra reminder to your customers, not only are you maintaining contact with them, you are engaging with them to give you a positive (or negative!) confirmation with regards to their booking.

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