Communicate quicker and easier with your Customers using Catalina’s SMS Central
SMS Central is perfect for quick communication with your customers over SMS texts. Unlike email, SMS messages have an extremely high open rate (usually greater than 99%) and 90% are read within 3 minutes of delivery. This makes SMS ideal for delivering important information from business applications to your customers. Your customers can also text information back which can then be recorded in your business systems.
SMS Central can send notifications to your customer
- Notify customers of pending field service visit or changes in date/time
- Notify customers of product shipment
- Notify customers of tracking information or delivery
- Schedule automatic follow up messages to customers after a service call or support incident is closed
- Send images to field staff so they can see what the customer has reported needs work
- Send images to customers showing damages found, repairs needed, proposed work site
- Get customer approval on completed work displayed in images sent to their phones
Appointment Reminders and Confirmations
- Send customers messages when a service call is scheduled
- Send an automatic service call appointment reminders prior to scheduled visit
- Have customers confirm they can be available for a service call (if required)
- Have customers confirm site will be ready for the service call
- Send customers notices when service calls need to be delayed or changed
- Have customers confirm service call date/time changes
Photos
- Get photos from customers of damages, repair sites, or other useful images
- Get GPS coordinates of mobile images for proof of location, tracking movement
- Get before/after service photos as proof of work
- Read barcodes using only a mobile phone camera and record results in business application (GPS coordinates are also available on barcode images)
- Send images to customers showing damages found, repairs needed, proposed work site
- Get customer approval on completed work displayed in images sent to their phones