The Appointment Reminder enables you to contact your customers and remind them of their previously scheduled appointment.
Use the Appointment Reminder to speed up the process of communication with your customers by eliminating the step of having them talk to an agent first. Contact your customers and remind them of their previously scheduled appointment to optimize your business process.
Your customers may confirm or decline appointments by entering digits on their phone’s keypad. You can also provide your customers with the option to talk to an agent right away and schedule a new date.
Introducing this solution can help you automate your business processes and increase efficiency.
1. Log in to the Infobip web interface, navigate to the Communicate module, click CREATE FLOW, and then click Start from Scratch.
2. Select a One-time audience then click START BUILDING.
3. Enter a Flow Name (e.g., Appointment Reminder).
4. On the side panel of the one-time audience entry point, select the audience you want to send your call to. Your audience should be selected from the People module. You can choose from previously created tags (e.g., appointment), by name, and more.
After you’ve selected your audience, you can Start building IVR flow.
5. The first IVR element you must choose for outbound IVR calls is Start Call.
6. In the Start Call side panel, you must enter or select a sender. This is your caller ID to be presented on your customer phone once they receive a call.
The Caller ID must be numeric.
7. Click Arrow Icon and select Play from the available elements.
8. When you click Play, a side panel will open on the right side where you can fill in the required parameters.
Choose an audio source:
In this example, we will use the text-to-speech option. The message text can be entered in the Content field found in the side panel.
9. Next, you should collect customer inputs. To do this, click the arrow icon and select Collect from the available elements.
When you click Collect, a side panel will open on the right where you can fill in the required parameters:
10. To be able to branch the call based on customer inputs, you need to enter the appropriate conditions.
To do this, click Create Conditions in the side panel and define all the expected values.
Keep in mind that the expected values should be correlated to the options offered in the audio menu prepared during Step 8 of this tutorial.
11. In this example, a customer who selects 1 on their keypad is confirming the appointment, a customer who selects 2 is declining the appointment, and a customer who selects 3 will be forwarded to your business phone number.
12. In the Forward call side panel, fill in the required parameters:
12. Click VALIDATE.
The flow will not be launched yet.
13. Click LAUNCH NOW.
If you do not see the summary or Launch Now button, check that you’ve set up each part of the Flow correctly.
This is what your final flow should look like:
Once you’ve completed all these steps, you can return to the main Flow page and watch the progress of your campaign.
Check the availability of the person receiving the forwarded call. Use the Call API action to reach your backend and based on the response, proceed with forwarding the call if the person is available. Otherwise, you can click Play audio and then repeat Call API action to check availability again.
