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Automatically sending patients a message on their birthday

How to send an SMS or Email to a patient on or before their birthday

Updated over 3 months ago

In this article, you'll learn how to set up an automated birthday message for patients. This feature allows you to create personalized messages that will be sent automatically.

Step 1: Navigate to the direct marketing tab.

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Step 2: Proceed to audiences.

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Step 3: Click on Create audience and select custom targeted audiences. Press continue.

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Step 4: Name this audience as birthday. Ensure to select automated audience as the type. Click continue.

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Step 5: In the criteria section, go to the time based section.

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Step 6: Look for birthday. If you wish to send messages a day before their birthday, enter one day and hit the plus button.

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Step 7: A preview of all patients with upcoming birthdays will appear. Press continue.

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Step 8: Confirm all details and click create.

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Step 9: Now, you're ready to create an email or an SMS campaign. Let's create an SMS campaign.

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Step 10: Name your campaign. For instance, Birthday text.

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Step 11: Set up your message content.

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Step 12: Again, select automated audience as the type and birthday as the audience.

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Step 13: Click save and then turn on. The system will now monitor for any birthdays coming up in one day and send them your prepared text message.

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Step 14: You also have the option to send a test message to yourself.

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And that's it! You've successfully set up an automated birthday message for your patients.

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