Setting clear customer expectations around arrival time creates a great customer experience, and also prevents annoying 'no shows' that waste your time.

Using tags and automations, you are able to send a text to a customer to let them know your engineer is on their way.

Here is a quick video that shows you how:

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From your dashboard, select "Automations" from the bar on the left hand side

Click on "Create Automation"

Click on "Create new automation"

Name your new automation

Change the Trigger Automation type to "Event"

Set the trigger to "Tagged"

Click to add a new condition

In this instance, we are going to set the condition as "The newly-added tag", "equals", "On Way".

On Way matches the tag used for the event status- for more about tags, visit What are tags?

To set up the SMS, click "Add action"

Choose "SMS Notification" from the drop-down list

Choose "Customer phone number"

Click in the message area to add your text

Add custom variables to your messages from the list on the right

Once you are happy with your message, click "Save changes"

If you would like your automation to be active straight away, click to turn it on

Once you are happy with your automation, click save!