If you have set up reminders to be sent to patients via SMS/text or email, you can view reminder activity for any appointment by clicking the appointment in the calendar, then clicking the bell icon.
You can also view responses to your reminders at a glance by looking at the Appointment Status, shown by the coloured time label on the appointment.
Appointments with two-way SMS reminders will have their appointment status automatically updated depending on the patient's response to the reminder.
Appointments with two-way reminders will have the time label coloured (regardless of your calendar preferences) according to the following table:
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Colour |
Appointment Status |
 Red |
Rejected (patient sent a negative response, "N" or "No") |
 Amber |
Check Response or Pending (patient sent an ambiguous response). Check the reminder by clicking the appointment in the calendar, then clicking the bell icon and hovering over the magnifying glass. |
 Yellow |
Booked (an SMS reminder has been sent, but no reply has been received yet) |
 Green |
Confirmed or Attended (patient sent a positive response, "Y" or "Yes") |
You can check that a particular reminder or notification has been sent or has been scheduled by clicking the appointment on the calendar, then clicking the Reminders (bell) icon.
From the Reminder pop-up, you can:
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View when each reminder was sent or is scheduled to be sent
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View the status of each reminder and whether it sent successfully, or see the reason why the reminder failed to send
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View the content of a reminder by hovering over the magnifying glass
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Edit reminder copy and schedule it to be sent later
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Purchase credits for SMS reminders
If an attempt to send an SMS or email reminder fails, click the exclamation mark next to the Failed status to see the reason why it failed, which are detailed below.
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Reasons SMS and email reminders and notifications fail |
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Reason |
Description and action |
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No email address listed |
Obtain the email address from the patient and add it on the Appointment Reminder details form, then re-send the reminder. Alternatively you can send it via SMS by clicking the Add Reminder button. |
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No phone number listed |
Obtain the mobile phone number from the patient and add it on the Appointment Reminder details form, then re-send the reminder. Alternatively you can send it via email by clicking the Add Reminder button. |
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Invalid phone number listed - [the number] |
Check the mobile phone number with the patient and add it on the Appointment Reminder details form, and re-send it. Alternatively you can send it via email by clicking the Add Reminder button. |
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Appointment cancelled |
The reminder/notification was not sent because the appointment was cancelled. |
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Insufficient SMS/Text credit balance |
Click the Buy Credits button on this form or on your Reminders page. |
From the Reminder details form accessed when you click the Reminder icon on the calendar (see above), you can:
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View the reminder/notification: including the full wording with dynamic terms converted to actual words (e.g. [Patient Full Name] becomes John Smith), the actual character count (compared to the estimate seen on the Reminders page) and the number of credit/s used;
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Edit the reminder/notification: including the ability to edit the date and time that the reminder is sent, as well as the wording of the reminder and the mobile phone number to which the reminder is sent (if the reminder is an SMS reminder);
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Re-send the reminder/notification: re-send the same reminder to the same number/email address, which is done immediately when you click the re-send icon - very helpful if the previous attempt failed and you have rectified the issue, or if you have cancelled the reminder previously and now want to send it; and
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Cancel the reminder/notification: cancel a previously scheduled reminder or notification, which is done immediately when you click the cancel icon.
You can also send an individual reminder that has not been previously scheduled for this appointment by clicking the Add Reminder button.
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