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Routing Forms Explained: Leveraging Client Responses for Smarter Appointment Scheduling
Product NotesMeet Lisa, an overwhelmed office manager at a growing business. Every day, she faces the daunting task of handling all incoming appointment requests from prospective and current clients (on top of all her other work). Despite her best efforts,…
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How to Shift Your Online Scheduling Availability for Summer
Product NotesThe summer season is upon us, and you’re likely looking forward to taking some time off or adjusting your schedule to enjoy the extra warmth and daylight.
Whatever the reason for your schedule change, it’s crucial to update your online…
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Message Blasts vs. Campaigns: Tools for Targeted Client Outreach
Product NotesMaximizing your client communication strategy means knowing when to use the right tools for the job.
If you’re an Apptoto user, you recognize how valuable appointment reminders are in reminding clients about upcoming appointments and preventing…
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Message Blasts: Capture Prospective Clients’ Attention & Business
Product NotesAttention, they say, is the currency of the modern business landscape. It’s a scarce resource, and you have to be creative to capture it.
With people’s focus being pulled a hundred different ways every day, capturing your audience’s…
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Appointment Routing Basics: Pairing Clients & Providers with Precision
Product NotesTired of playing the perpetual referee when it comes to assigning appointments to team members?
It can feel like a relentless balancing act trying to figure out how to “fairly” allocate new appointments and clients across employees.…
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HIPAA-Compliant Patient Appointment Messaging with Salesforce & Apptoto
Product NotesIn the healthcare industry, safeguarding patient information isn't just a best practice—it's the law. The stringent regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protect patients’ privacy and the security…
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Build Trust with Each Text: Consent-First SMS Messaging for Businesses
Product NotesIn a world where our devices buzz, beep, and blink with notifications around the clock, it’s never been more important for businesses to prioritize respectful and permission-based communication. This is especially true for appointment-based…
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Unlocking New Growth: Maximize Apptoto’s Salesforce Integration
Product NotesEver wondered if you’re overlooking opportunities to increase revenue and efficiency by not fully leveraging Salesforce for your appointment-based businesses?
With its extensive features and vast integration capabilities, the leading…
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New Google and Yahoo! Email Authentication Requirements Starting February 2024
Product NotesBeginning in February 2024, Google and Yahoo! will begin enforcing new email authentication requirements for businesses designed to better protect email inboxes against security threats and spam.
Any businesses that email their customers…
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Calendly vs Apptoto: Scheduling Software Showdown
Product NotesAre you drowning in a sea of scheduling chaos? Keeping track of the constant whirlwind of new bookings, cancellations, and reschedules while balancing staff availability is daunting, especially if you’re managing it all manually. But there’s…
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SimplyBook.me vs Apptoto: A Comparison of Two Top Online Booking Systems
Product NotesNow that a majority of consumers (60%) prefer scheduling appointments online, businesses are coming to the realization that offering online booking is no longer nice to have. It’s critical to continued business success. However, for appointment-based…
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Sign In Scheduling vs Apptoto: Which is Best for Appointment Scheduling & Messaging?
Product NotesWhen it comes to appointment management software, finding a solution that combines the ability to create beautiful, flexible booking pages with highly customizable appointment reminders and messages is a challenge. Those that offer the most…
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Acuity Scheduling vs Apptoto: Which is Best for Scheduling & Customer Engagement
Product NotesTurning one-time visitors into loyal, returning clients hinges on your team’s ability to provide consistently outstanding customer service at every interaction. Each step—from how easy it is to book an appointment to the quality of service…
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YouCanBookMe vs Apptoto: Which is Best for SMBs?
Product NotesRunning a small-to-medium-size business means you're always walking a tightrope, balancing your time between growing your business, nurturing your staff, taking care of customers, and trying to stand out in a crowded market. It’s a tough gig,…
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Streamline Online Booking with 6 New Updates from Apptoto
Product NotesThere is no question that online appointment scheduling software has transformed business for appointment-based companies.
By offering online booking pages, you empower customers to schedule appointments at their convenience, on their terms,…
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Translate Appointment Messages into Multiple Languages with AI
Product NotesWhen communicating with your clients or patients about upcoming visits, providing superior customer experience isn’t just about sending appointment reminders (although it is a critical first step). Delivering personalized messages using…
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Two-Factor Authentication Updates Boost Team Security in Apptoto
Product NotesSafeguarding our personal and professional data online has never been more crucial, given the neverending attempts to hack our information. It’s why two-factor authentication (2FA) has transitioned from being a "nice to have" to a "non-negotiable"…
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Control Your Online Schedule with “Availability Overrides”
Product NotesAre you tired of having to create fake appointments on your calendar to block off time on your Apptoto online booking pages? Have you wanted to add or adjust your schedule availability online easily? You're in luck if you answered yes to either…
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Apptoto Achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Certification: A Commitment to Security and Data Privacy
Product NotesApptoto is proud to announce that we have achieved SOC 2 Type 1 certification, demonstrating our commitment to security and data privacy for our customers and stakeholders.
What is SOC 2 Type 1 Certification?
The SOC 2 Type 1 certification…
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Appointment Scheduling With Apptoto and Microsoft Teams
Product NotesMicrosoft Teams is a powerful collaboration and appointment-scheduling platform that is quickly becoming a go-to solution for businesses of all sizes. One of the standout features of Microsoft Teams is its Virtual Meeting feature. Apptoto now…
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Apptoto vs. GoReminders: Which Does Client Reminders Better?
Product NotesFaced with finding an appointment reminder and scheduling solution, many people just flip a virtual coin. There are so many solutions it's hard to know which is the best answer for a company or individual. Online searches aren't much help. Articles…
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Apptoto’s seamless integration with Virtual Meetings
Product NotesBased on our data, we've seen a 10x increase in the number of virtual meetings this year! This change in behavior is almost certainly due to COVID; however, Virtual Meetings are expected to stick around long after the world recovers…
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Make Rescheduling Effortless with Apptoto’s Appointment Scheduler
Product NotesWe are hearing from clients that many of you are starting to re-open in lieu of the COVID-19 shutdown. As you begin to re-open, you may want to ask clients who had appointments during the shutdown to reschedule. Or, you might find yourself…
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Introducing “Compose to All” Appointments
Product NotesApptoto has had the ability to message multiple appointments at once for a while now. However, doing so required you to manually check checkboxes for each appointment you want to send messages. We’ve received feedback that doing so is time-consuming…
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Rebook Past Clients & Reconnect with Apptoto Campaigns
Product NotesWe are reopening and reconnecting worldwide after many companies had to cancel appointments due to COVID-19. Losing those clients and that revenue is detrimental at any time, particularly when we are in recovery mode. Learn how to reengage with…
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Send Texts from Your Business Landline
Product NotesAccording to an FCC study done in 2017, only 10% of the 455 million telephone numbers in the United States are landlines. A whopping 75% of numbers are mobile phones. Most of those landlines belong to businesses, while consumers rely primarily…
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Limit Impact of Cellular Carrier Filtering on Your Business Messaging
Product NotesRecently, Sprint and T-Mobile have increased their text filtering criteria, causing some text messages to fail to send. Unfortunately, our service provider does not always flag failed messages. This means you might not have been alerted to…
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How to Keep Patient Messaging HIPAA Compliant?
Product NotesHealthcare professionals spend hours each week sending reminders to their patients. Whether you or your staff are taking care of it, manually sending messages to patients about their upcoming appointments is a huge waste of your time. Did…
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New Customization Features for Apptoto Booking Pages
Product NotesApptoto’s online scheduling just got better! Now, you can customize the look and feel of your booking pages to match your business’s brand. Another great addition that our customers asked for is the ability to customize your availability…
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How to use Apptoto Webhooks
Product NotesApptoto Webhooks allow you to integrate Apptoto’s Appointment Messaging & Scheduling Platform further into your workflow by triggering things to happen when certain events happen in Apptoto (e.g., when someone books an appointment with…
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New Auto Messages Editor
Product NotesWe’ve recently started rolling out a new version of our “Auto Messages” tab inside of the Apptoto application. All new users have access to it, and all existing users can now try it. This blog post will cover some of the changes to how…
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What is Apptoto?
Product NotesApptoto is an automated appointment reminder and online scheduling solution for appointment-based businesses.
The robust appointment management platform was born out of our founder's passion for helping businesses communicate more efficiently…
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How to Add Appointment Scheduling Links to Your Google My Business Profile
Product NotesGoogle is always rolling out new features aimed at helping small and local businesses bring more customers through the door. Their aim seems to be to establish themselves as a one-stop shop for finding and learning about SMBs anywhere in the…
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Apptoto Custom Features Spotlight: From Auto Replies to Custom Fields
Product NotesWe spoke with Tyler, one of our customer support specialists, about the needs and pain points our customers seek help with. Luckily, Apptoto has an arsenal of custom features to make life much easier for businesses. Best of all, they're easy…
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