Web Appointments Now new release!
I’m pleased to announce the release of Web Appointments Now 1.2 with several new features that we hope will help you continue to grow your business. We’re excited about the new features and we think you will be, too….
SMS Text Message Reminders
In this release, we introduce a feature that’s been on the drawing board for a while. You can now send appointment reminders to your customers on their cell phones as well as sending email. With this feature, we’ve also added the ability to send multiple reminders for an appointment (say an email a day before, a text message an hour before). Our “add-a-reminder” feature has also been enhanced to be more user-friendly. Schedule an appointment and check it out!
Portugese, Spanish, and Russian Translations (Beta)
We’ve had some requests for Web Appointments Now to be translated into other languages, so we’ve given it our best shot with Portugese, Spanish, and Russian. You can select the language in the upper right-hand corner of every web page on the site. With this feature, we’ve also added the ability to set the currency that you want to use for your services, available on the account administration panel.
Now, unfortunately we at Web Appointments Now aren’t actually fluent in any of the languages we’ve translated into, so we probably made some mistakes. Please contact us with corrections if you’ve got them and we’ll get them corrected right away.
Where to now?
We at WebAppointmentsNow are constantly looking for ways to make the site more useful to you. Some ideas we’re currently considering:
- Customer Relationship Management – With this feature, you’d be able to email your customers from within the website, send newsletters, and see the whole history of interaction with your customers all in one place.
- E-Commerce – This feature would allow you to accept payments over the web for your services. You would still be able to accept payments in person, of course. We would also provide basic QuickBooks integration with this feature.
- New Languages – Maybe you have a large Vietnamese customer base. Or Korean. Or someone else we left out of our first internationalization attempt. Let us know, and we’ll get right to work on a new translation!
- Employee Scheduling – This feature would integrate with Web Appointments Now and let you set up your employees’ work schedules to make sure you’ve got coverage. You’d be able to see all the employees working at a particular location and make adjustments to all their schedules from one place.
- Telephone Scheduling and Reminders – This feature would allow you to sent automated voice reminders to your clients as well as allow them to schedule appointments over the phone via a voice response system (they would still be able to call your receptionist as well, of course!).
- Mobile Version – This would be a version of the site optimized for smart phones such as Apple’s iPhone and would be focused on viewing and editing upcoming appointments.
We would love to hear feedback from you on which features you’d like to see first. (You probably have things you want that we haven’t even considered yet!) Let us know and we’ll get right on it. Please also contact us (or comment below) if you’ve got any feedback at all about the website. We love to hear from you!
Tags: appointment, release, reminders, scheduling, translation