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Appointment reminders

Every appointment Evrella books gets its reminders, by email, and by text on a paid plan

Evrella takes the booking in your website chat, then reminds your customer before they come: up to three reminders, at the moments you choose. Move the appointment and the reminders move with it; cancel it and they stop. That helps cut no-shows, with nothing to send by hand.

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How the chatbot works

One booking, from the chat to the day

An example from start to finish: a dental practice with reminders set for 1 day and 2 hours before. The people and the times are made up.

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  1. 1

    She books it in the chat

    Maria asks about a hygiene visit on your website one evening. Evrella offers a free slot from your calendar and confirms it in the chat.

    Mon 20:15

  2. 2

    The day before

    Maria gets a reminder by email, and by text on a paid plan, with the time, her reference and how to change or cancel.

    Wed 10:00

  3. 3

    Maria moves it herself

    Thursday no longer suits her. With her reference she changes the booking in the chat, and the reminders still to come move to the new time.

    Wed 12:30

  4. 4

    Two hours before

    A last reminder reaches her phone. Nobody at the practice sent a thing, and the appointment is on your calendar.

    Fri 12:30

If she cancels: A cancelled appointment drops its reminders, and so does one you mark as completed or as a no-show. Reminders go out between 8am and 9pm your time, so a moment that falls overnight is moved to the daytime.

What goes unanswered today

  • Reminding by hand

    Someone works through tomorrow’s list by phone or text, when they could be looking after the people in front of them.

  • A list that is already out of date

    A reminder sent by hand doesn’t know the appointment moved yesterday.

  • An empty slot

    When a customer forgets, you find out at the appointment time, too late to offer the slot to anyone else.

  • Your calendar reminds you, not them

    A calendar alert reaches your own phone. Your customer hears nothing from it.

How a conversation goes

Short examples written for this page, not recordings of real callers.

Booking in the chat

Caller
Hi, can I book a hygiene visit next week?
Evrella
Yes. I have Thursday at 10:00 or Friday at 14:30. Which suits you?
Caller
Thursday at 10:00, please. Will I get a reminder?
Evrella
Yes. You’re booked for Thursday at 10:00, and you’ll get a reminder by email and text before you come. Your reference is EV123456789.

Changing it after the reminder

Caller
I got your reminder but I can’t make Thursday. My reference is EV123456789.
Evrella
No problem, I’ve found your booking. I have Friday at 14:30 or Monday at 09:00.
Caller
Friday, please.
Evrella
Done. You’re now booked for Friday at 14:30, and your reminders will follow the new time.

What your customer gets

You set the reminders once, under Settings › Booking. After that each booking looks after itself.

  • Up to three reminders

    Choose from 1 week, 3 days, 2 days, 1 day, 4 hours, 2 hours, 1 hour and 30 minutes before. A service can have its own moments, or none.

  • By email, and by text on a paid plan

    An email, and on a paid plan a text when the customer gave a mobile we can reach, in the language of their booking.

  • The details that matter

    Your business’s name, the time in your time zone, the reference, and how to change or cancel.

  • It follows the booking

    A moved appointment moves its reminders. A cancelled one, or one marked completed or no-show, drops them.

What reminders cover, and what they don’t

Reminders belong to the bookings Evrella takes, so it is worth checking this fits how your appointments are made.

  • Covered: bookings made in your website chat

    Evrella offers a free time from her calendar, confirms it and reminds your customer.

  • Not covered: appointments in another system

    Evrella doesn’t send reminders for appointments held only in your practice system or typed straight into your calendar.

  • Not yet: booking by phone or on WhatsApp

    She takes the customer’s details and the times that suit them and passes the request to your team, because she doesn’t book appointments by phone yet.

How it works

  1. 01

    She reads your business

    Your website and the documents you give her are what she answers from.

  2. 02

    She answers every channel

    Your website chat, WhatsApp and your phone line, day and night.

  3. 03

    You see every conversation

    Each one is in your console, with the details she took and a summary.

Works alongside

Only what Evrella really does with each of these.

  • Google Calendar

    Two-way sync: every booking appears in your Google Calendar, and times you’re busy there need not be offered. A calendar alert still reaches only you, so the reminders to your customer come from Evrella.

Compliance

A reminder is a service message about an appointment the customer made, sent to the address and mobile they gave for that booking. Visitors’ details are stored in the UK on AWS in London, answers are generated in the UK or the EU, nothing is used to train AI models, and a Data Processing Agreement comes with every plan. Evrella tells every visitor she is an AI assistant, and she gives general information from your own pages, not legal, financial or medical advice.

What she never says

  • A time your calendar doesn’t have free
  • A price you have not published
  • Legal, financial or medical advice

Pricing

Plans at £0, £39, £149 or £249 a month, with 30 days free and no card to start.

Your month

An estimate of a typical month for businesses like yours. Pick another month, or change the figures to yours.

Credits a month

1,300

  • StarterBest value

    £39 plus 300 credits at 4p

    £51a month

  • Small business

    Within the 5,000 credits included

    £149a month

  • Business

    Within the 8,000 credits included

    £249a month

An estimate from the figures above. Every plan starts with 30 days free, so you can count a real month before you pay.

What a receptionist costs, with the sums

The plan for a month like this

£51 a month like this

Questions

  • Which plans include appointment reminders?

    Every plan, as reminders before each appointment by email, and by text with Starter, Small business and Business. They come with Booking, and each reminder’s email and text count as Booking’s other emails and texts do. They stay off until you switch them on.

  • Will they remind customers about appointments in my practice system?

    No. Reminders belong to the bookings Evrella takes in your website chat. An appointment held only in your practice system, or typed straight into your calendar, gets no reminder from Evrella.

  • When do reminders go out?

    At the moments you choose, up to three of them, between 8am and 9pm your time. A moment that falls overnight is moved to the daytime, and a moment already past when the booking is made is skipped.

  • What if a customer moves or cancels?

    With the reference from the confirmation, a customer can look their booking up in the chat and cancel or change it, without calling you. A moved appointment moves its reminders and a cancelled one drops them.

  • Do all my customers get a text?

    A text goes when the customer gave a mobile we can reach. If there is no mobile, or we can’t text that country, the reminder still goes by email.

  • Can each service have different reminders?

    Yes. Set the moments once for the whole business, then give a service its own moments, or none at all.

  • How many no-shows will it save?

    We don’t quote a figure, because it depends on your customers and how you book. Reminders help cut no-shows, and you can mark each appointment completed, a no-show or cancelled in your console to see how yours are going.

  • Is this the same as the Reminders feature?

    No. Appointment reminders go before a booked appointment and come with every plan. Reminders is a separate feature for telling customers a service is due again, such as a hygiene visit or an MOT: it comes with Business.

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