A Bookerville member recently asked "Could you add a feature that would text my phone(s) when a reservation is made." The answer is "YES!", and I thought this would be a great topic for our forums as I'm sure there are others who would like to do the same thing.

If you have a phone or other device that you can receive text messages on, then you can configure Bookerville to text you for all (or just certain) emails.

Most carriers (mobile phone service providers) offer a feature that allows anyone to send an email to a certain email address, and the email will be sent to your phone as a text.

The email address is usually in the form of your phone # followed by a standard domain for texting. Here are some common examples:


And there are others for other carriers, see here for more details: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/

If you can't find your carrier there, then just call them and ask what email address to use to send an SMS text to your phone.

You can test this yourself by simply sending an email to that address manually, and see if you get the text on your phone.

Once you know the email address to use, it's just a matter of adding that email address as a secondary alert in your Dashboard ==> Account Settings, and/or updating certain Email Templates to copy to that address.

As always, let us know if you need any help.

John Amato

 

 
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