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Missed Appointments

How to Send a Mass Text Message to All the Patients Who Missed Their Appointments?

Create a targeted campaign for patients who missed appointments during a selected date range.

Step by step

What you’ll see in this demo

1

Once you log into PracticeDilly, click Mass Texting in the left panel, and select Campaigns & Promotions.

Campaigns and Promotions under Mass Texting
2

Click on Send New Campaign. Here, you'll be asked to choose if you want to send a Text Message or an Email. Let's choose Text Message for this demo.

Choosing Text Message for a new campaign
3

Choose the option, “Patients with broken appointments between the given From and To dates.”

Patients with broken appointments campaign option
4

Let's say you want to send the message to all your patients who have missed their appointments in the last 3 months. Select this option and specify the start and end dates. Click on the “Next” button.

Date range for patients with missed appointments
5

On this page, type in the message you wish to send to your patients. Add the patient's name to personalize the message. The program will automatically replace the placeholder with the patient's name before sending the message to the patient.

Personalized mass-text message editor
6

You will be able to preview it and even send a test message to your mobile phone. If the message looks good, click “Next” to proceed.

Mass-text preview and test message
7

On this page, you can review all the information that was entered in the previous screens. If you need to make any changes, you can always go back by clicking on the “Back” button. If everything looks fine, click on the “Send Now” button.

Campaign review and Send Now button