{"id":6645,"date":"2023-06-12T17:49:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ari.app\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2024-12-18T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:18:09","slug":"automated-car-appointment-reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ari.app\/2023\/06\/automated-car-appointment-reminders\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated Car Appointment Reminders (new feature in ARI v.11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for all technicians, mechanics, and auto repair shop owners. <a style=\"color: #3026f4; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ari.app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARI(Auto Repair Software)<\/a> has received its most significant update this Summer.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your app up-to-date with the help of <a style=\"color: #3026f4; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ari.app\/2021\/06\/how-to-update-my-ari-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"display: flex; border-left: 0.75rem solid #07F29C; padding-left: 0.75rem;\">New Features<\/h2>\n<p>One of your most-requested features was <em><strong>Automated Appointment Reminders<\/strong><\/em> for your clients. It&#8217;s one of the many improvements that came with the update. Here we will show you how to use it and extract value for your business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"display: flex; border-left: 0.75rem solid #07F29C; padding-left: 0.75rem;\">Automated Reminders for Online Appointments<\/h2>\n<p>ARI now provides the convenience of automatically reminding clients about their appointments with you! \u00a0You can send Automatic Reminders to customers in your shop via email or SMS. To do that &#8211; open the <em><strong>Appointments calendar<\/strong><\/em> and create an Appointment for one of your clients. Head to the bottom yellow section <em><strong>\u201cAutomatic Reminders for Clients<\/strong><\/em>.\u201c. \u00a0Then choose whether you want to send them an SMS or an email before they come to your shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">You can use the Automated Appointments after clients book a service from your Online Appointments page. Once the appointment is confirmed &#8211; open it and tick the boxes so clients receive an email\/SMS 24 hours before their scheduled visit!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6652 size-full\" style=\"box-shadow: 0 2px 4px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25); margin: 0.33rem; border-radius: 0.5rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/automated-appointment-confirmations.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"718\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the upcoming changes in ARI. We will provide user guides for most of the crucial features in this update.<\/p>\n<p>Comment below with feedback about Automated Appointment Reminders, and share the article on social media if you found it helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for all technicians, mechanics, and auto repair shop owners. ARI(Auto Repair Software) has received its most significant update this Summer. Please keep your app up-to-date with the help of this guide. &nbsp; New Features One of your most-requested features was Automated Appointment Reminders for your clients. It&#8217;s one of the many improvements that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-features","category-for-mechanics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14980,"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/14980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ari.app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}