Eight wordings for the messages a business actually has to send: confirmation, reminder, running late, no-show, review, cancellation. Fill in four boxes, copy the result. No account, no email address, nothing sent from here.
This template builder needs JavaScript to run. Everything below it still reads perfectly well without, from how it works to what it will not do and the questions people ask.
Nothing leaves this browser. Nothing is sent from here and nothing is saved to us: this writes the words, you send them.
Eight of them, named by the moment rather than by a category: the confirmation, the day before, two hours before, running late, the no-show, the review ask, filling a cancellation and the deposit that has not arrived. Switch between text and email and the wording changes with it, because they are not the same job.
Business, client, service and when. Everything updates as you type, so what you are reading is what the client will read. Leave a box empty and it falls back to something neutral rather than printing a bracket at somebody.
One button puts the message on your clipboard. On the text side the counter says how many characters it is and whether that is one message or two. 160 is where a text splits and starts costing twice, which is the thing most reminder wording gets wrong.
What is above is wording. It fills your details into a form of words that reads like a person wrote it, and on the text side it tells you when you have gone past the length where a message splits in two. Nothing is saved here, because there is nothing worth saving, and nothing is sent, because this page has no idea who your clients are.
Which is the whole problem with reminders done by hand. Somebody has to remember to send them, at the right time, to the right person, having looked up what they booked. Nobody does that reliably at five o’clock on a Friday. Nothing here knows an appointment moved. And a client who wants to change the time still has to reach a human.
If you want the next four things
They go out on their own, at your timings
RemindersThe wording is yours and lives in one place
NotificationsThe client can change the time from the message
Booking pageYou can see who came and who did not
AttendanceReminders that go on their own are what a booking system is for. Picktime has a free plan rather than a free trial, and reminders are one of the things the paid plans add to it.
Start freeBuild the link you paste into a bio, an email signature or a message, with the service and the staff member already chosen.
Build a link SERIESTurn one start date and a repeat into the full list of dates, ready to paste into an email or a calendar.
Generate a series WEEKLay out a week of shifts, classes or appointments, and see where two of them collide before anybody turns up.
Lay out a weekYes, and there is nothing to sign up for. No account, no email address, no trial that runs out and no limit on how many you copy. Use them in your own booking system, in your email client, or by hand. We would rather you had the words than nothing.
Neither. This page has no account behind it and nothing to store. It fills your details into wording and puts the result on your clipboard. Nothing is uploaded, no message leaves this browser, and your clients are not known to it in any way.
Copy this message puts the whole thing on your clipboard, ready to paste into your phone, your email client or whatever sends your reminders today. The text version and the email version are written separately rather than one being a trimmed copy of the other.
Not from here. Something has to know who is booked, what they booked and when, and this page knows none of that. A booking system does, which is why its reminders go out at the timing you set without anyone remembering to send them. In Picktime that is on the paid plans; the free plan sends the confirmation at the moment of booking.
A text message is 160 characters before it is split and charged as two. Politeness is what usually pushes wording over the line, so the counter tells you which side of it you are on while you are still editing rather than after you have sent five hundred of them.
Set the wording once and let every reminder go out on its own, at the time you chose. Reminders are on Picktime's paid plans, and the account itself takes minutes to open with no card.
