Notices & Transactional SMS articles
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Transactional SMS: order notices, confirmations and alerts your customers expect
The short answer: a transactional SMS is a notice triggered by something the customer did or has going on with you:...
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Payment reminder SMS: when to send it, what to write and ready-to-use examples
The short answer: a good payment reminder by SMS is short, polite and carries everything the customer needs to pay:...
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Business SMS by sector: retail, clinics, schools, deliveries and more, with example messages
The short answer: almost every business has notices its customers are glad to get by SMS: an order that is ready,...
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SMS, e-mail or WhatsApp for customer notices: which channel for each message
The short answer: use SMS for anything that is short, important and must reach any mobile phone, even without...
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Payment confirmation SMS: what to send the moment a payment or receipt is recorded
The short answer: a payment confirmation SMS goes out once your system treats the payment as confirmed, never...
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Order status SMS from confirmation to delivery: one message per stage, sent by your system
The short answer: send one SMS for each stage that changes what the customer does: order confirmed, out for...
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Booking confirmation SMS: confirming appointments, reservations and changes as they happen
The short answer: the confirmation goes out the moment a booking is made, changed or cancelled, and gives the day,...
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Transaction alert SMS for banks, microfinance and payment services: what to include
The short answer: a transaction alert goes out the instant the operation happens and gives the type of operation,...
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Delivery and courier SMS: out for delivery, pickup codes and failed delivery attempts
The short answer: for a delivery company, the SMS tells the recipient that the parcel is on its way, when it will...
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Cancellation and refund SMS: confirming that an order was cancelled or the money returned
The short answer: when an order is cancelled or money is refunded, the customer wants to know three things: that it...
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Writing transactional SMS: the key fact first, references and amounts, and one part only
The short answer: a good transactional SMS says what happened in the first sentence, carries the reference (order,...
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What never to put in a transactional SMS: passwords, full card numbers and private details
The short answer: in a transactional SMS, never include passwords, PINs, full card or account numbers, ID document...
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Sent a transactional SMS with a mistake: what you can undo and how to send the correction
The short answer: an SMS that has gone out cannot be deleted or recalled. What you can undo are the ones still...
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Service and repair status SMS: received, quote ready, finished and ready to collect
The short answer: garages, repair services, laundries, tailors and laboratories gain a lot from four texts: received...
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Insurance SMS: policy issued, payment received, claim opened and claim paid
The short answer: for an insurer or broker, transactional texts follow the life of the policy and the claim: policy...
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A one-off transactional SMS at the counter: sending it from a contact in the SMS Center
The short answer: you do not need to program anything to send a customer a notice. In the SMS Center in Meu...
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Cleaning the phone numbers in your customer database before sending transactional SMS
The short answer: before you connect your system to SMS, tidy up the phone numbers in your customer database: one...
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Notification SMS: automatic notices to your customers from the SMS page or your own system
The short answer: a notification SMS is a notice that goes out on its own, at the right time, with nobody on the...
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Appointment reminder SMS: when to send it, what it must say and how to schedule it
The short answer: send the reminder the day before, or a few hours before if the appointment is early in the morning...
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Expiry and renewal notices by SMS: contracts, licences and insurance before they lapse
The short answer: an expiry notice tells the customer what is ending, on which day and how to renew, with enough...
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Security notice SMS: new sign-ins, password changes and other sensitive account actions
The short answer: when something sensitive happens in one of your customers' accounts (a sign-in from a new device,...
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Planned maintenance by SMS: warning customers before downtime and when service is back
The short answer: warn people the day before and an hour before planned downtime, with the day, the start and end...
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Internal SMS notices for your staff: shifts, rosters and urgent messages to a contact group
The short answer: keep your staff in Contacts on the SMS page in Meu Interweb, organise them into groups (by shift,...
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SMS notices without programming: from a spreadsheet to scheduled messages on the SMS page
The short answer: export from your software the list of people to notify (tomorrow's appointments, contracts ending...
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Notification preferences: letting customers choose which SMS notices they receive
The short answer: in your own system, record for each customer which kinds of notice they want by SMS, when they...
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SMS notices in Portuguese and English: sending each customer the notice in their language
The short answer: the SMS goes out exactly as you send it: there is no automatic translation. Store each customer's...





