Build SMS Appointment Reminders
Ahoy! We now recommend you build your SMS appointment reminders with Twilio's built in Message Scheduling functionality. Head on over to the Message Resource documentation to learn more about scheduling SMS messages!
Appointment reminders allow you to automate the process of reaching out to your customers in advance of an upcoming appointment. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to implement appointment reminders at the moment the appointment is created.
We will be working through a series of user stories that describe how to fully implement appointment reminders in a web application. We'll walk through the code required to satisfy each story, and explore what we needed to add on each step.
All this can be done with the help of Twilio in under half an hour.
Find your language and framework of choice below to get to the source code in your language and learn how to build an appointment reminders app!
- C# & ASP.NET MVC
- Java & Spark
- Node & Express
- PHP & Laravel
- Python & Django
- Python & Flask
- Ruby & Rails
Happy building!
Twilio customers like Handy use appointment reminders to reduce no-shows and ensure customers have everything they need in advance of an appointment. Whether you're a dentist, doctor, cable company, or car repair shop, you can use automated appointment reminders to save time and money.
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