Automated Messages

Out of the box text message marketing for buyers associated with your clients

In many places, Clients are still unwilling to provide contact information for their buyers. This can be a major problem especially when your client isn't the best at communicating on your behalf. So, ShootAssist offers Automated Messages to help solve this problem.

Main Idea

ShootAssist generates a unique subscribe link for every client in your account. You can share that link with Clients using automated emails, or through other methods like handouts, asking the school to send something home, sharing the link on social media etc. When a parent visits that unique link, they can subscribe to picture day updates for that client simply by entering their phone number.

You can write automated text messages that work very similar to automated emails, but use SMS instead and send automatically to any buyer who has subscribed to get updates about one of your clients. Buyers can easily subscribe to more than one client and can also unsubscribe at any point in the same way.

The Goal

Automated messages and subscribing to picture day updates becomes a powerful, out of the box tool that ShootAssist can leverage for your business, which snowballs overtime into an extensive text messaging list of buyers who are automatically notified about upcoming shoots, where to order etc.

Setting it up

This particular feature requires a Twilio account to be able to send the messages on your behalf. These messages are extremely inexpensive and you'll have full control over the number / account they come from. When you're ready to enable this feature in ShootAssist, make sure to create an account on Twilio and set up api keys so ShootAssist can connect.