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Set Custom Schedules by Appointment Type on Your Booking Page
Finding the perfect appointment should be easy for your clients—but managing it all behind the scenes? That’s a whole different story. If you’re here, chances are you offer a variety of appointment types on different days or at different times—maybe one appointment is offered Monday through Wednesday. Another appointment type is available daily but only…
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Grow Bookings Fast with Limited-Time Appointment Discounts
The holidays are here, and it’s crunch time for many businesses. Whether you’re a salon preparing for end-of-year glam sessions or a dental office encouraging patients to use their remaining…
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How to Send Slack Notifications for New Appointment Bookings
You’ve just set up your Apptoto booking page, and appointments are rolling in. While this is a great problem to have, you realize you need to keep your team updated…
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Accept Online Payments for Any Appointment on Your Calendar
A client calls in wanting to book an appointment with you. 🎉 You require a deposit to reserve the appointment slot. No big deal…usually. But today, you’re slammed, and taking…
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How to Increase Webinar Signups with Apptoto
Webinars are a powerful way to connect with clients, educate prospects, and build credibility in your industry. But getting people to register—and show up—isn’t as simple as sending a single…
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Make it Simple For Clients To Add Appointments to their Calendars
Think about your last visit to the dentist’s office. You likely booked your appointment at the end of your appointment and stood there adding it to your calendar with the…
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Take Apptoto Everywhere with our Appointment Reminder App
It’s a hectic Tuesday morning. You’ve just finished an on-site client meeting, and as you reach for your laptop to check the rest of your appointments, a sinking feeling hits—you…
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Introducing Advanced Voicemail Detection for Voice Call Messages
You value the ability to send appointment reminders through text, email, and voice calls— that’s why Apptoto is your go-to solution for communicating with clients about their appointments. We’re excited…
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How to Block Clients from Scheduling Appointments on Holidays
Have you ever tried booking a haircut on Christmas Day? Yeah, it’s not happening. But what if your clients are trying to book with you on a national holiday, and…
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Do You Use a Business Texting App? You Should Be!
Does the thought of texting your clients seem too casual for your business? Think again! Consumers are increasingly demanding that businesses utilize text messaging over any other method. A recent…
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Routing Forms: Using Client Responses for Smarter Appointment Scheduling
Meet Lisa, an overwhelmed office manager at a growing business. Every day, she faces the daunting task of handling all incoming appointment requests from prospective and current clients (on top…
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How to Shift Your Online Scheduling Availability for Summer
The summer season is upon us, and you’re likely looking forward to taking some time off or adjusting your schedule to enjoy the extra warmth and daylight. Whatever the reason…
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Message Blasts vs. Campaigns: Tools for Targeted Client Outreach
Maximizing your client communication strategy means knowing when to use the right tools for the job. If you’re an Apptoto user, you recognize how valuable appointment reminders are in reminding…
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Message Blasts: Capture Prospective Clients’ Attention & Business
Attention, they say, is the currency of the modern business landscape. It’s a scarce resource, and you have to be creative to capture it. With people’s focus being pulled a…
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Appointment Routing Basics: Pairing Clients & Providers with Precision
Tired of playing the perpetual referee when it comes to assigning appointments to team members? It can feel like a relentless balancing act trying to figure out how to “fairly”…
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HIPAA-Compliant Patient Appointment Messaging with Salesforce & Apptoto
In the healthcare industry, safeguarding patient information isn’t just a best practice—it’s the law. The stringent regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protect patients’ privacy and…
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Build Trust with Each Text: Consent-First SMS Messaging for Businesses
In a world where our devices buzz, beep, and blink with notifications around the clock, it’s never been more important for businesses to prioritize respectful and permission-based communication. This is…
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Unlocking New Growth: Maximize Apptoto’s Salesforce Integration
Ever wondered if you’re overlooking opportunities to increase revenue and efficiency by not fully leveraging Salesforce for your appointment-based businesses? With its extensive features and vast integration capabilities, the leading…
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New Google and Yahoo! Email Authentication Requirements Starting February 2024
Beginning in February 2024, Google and Yahoo! will begin enforcing new email authentication requirements for businesses designed to better protect email inboxes against security threats and spam. Any businesses that…
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Calendly vs Apptoto: Scheduling Software Showdown
Are you drowning in a sea of scheduling chaos? Keeping track of the constant whirlwind of new bookings, cancellations, and reschedules while balancing staff availability is daunting, especially if you’re…
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SimplyBook.me vs Apptoto: A Comparison of Two Top Online Booking Systems
Now that a majority of consumers (60%) prefer scheduling appointments online, businesses are coming to the realization that offering online booking is no longer nice to have. It’s critical to…
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Sign In Scheduling vs Apptoto: Which is Best for Appointment Scheduling & Messaging?
When it comes to appointment management software, finding a solution that combines the ability to create beautiful, flexible booking pages with highly customizable appointment reminders and messages is a challenge.…
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Acuity Scheduling vs Apptoto: Which is Best for Scheduling & Customer Engagement
Turning one-time visitors into loyal, returning clients hinges on your team’s ability to provide consistently outstanding customer service at every interaction. Each step—from how easy it is to book an…
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YouCanBookMe vs Apptoto: Which is Best for SMBs?
Running a small-to-medium-size business means you’re always walking a tightrope, balancing your time between growing your business, nurturing your staff, taking care of customers, and trying to stand out in…
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Streamline Online Booking with 6 New Updates from Apptoto
There is no question that online appointment scheduling software has transformed business for appointment-based companies. By offering online booking pages, you empower customers to schedule appointments at their convenience, on…
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Translate Appointment Messages into Multiple Languages with AI
When communicating with your clients or patients about upcoming visits, providing superior customer experience isn’t just about sending appointment reminders (although it is a critical first step). Delivering personalized messages…
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Two-Factor Authentication Updates Boost Team Security in Apptoto
Safeguarding our personal and professional data online has never been more crucial, given the neverending attempts to hack our information. It’s why two-factor authentication (2FA) has transitioned from being a…
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Control Your Online Schedule with “Availability Overrides”
Are you tired of creating fake appointments on your calendar to block off time on your Apptoto online booking pages? Have you wanted to add or adjust your schedule availability…
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Apptoto Achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Certification: A Commitment to Security and Data Privacy
Apptoto is proud to announce that we have achieved SOC 2 Type 1 certification, demonstrating our commitment to security and data privacy for our customers and stakeholders. What is SOC…
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Appointment Scheduling With Apptoto and Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a powerful collaboration and appointment-scheduling platform that is quickly becoming a go-to solution for businesses of all sizes. One of the standout features of Microsoft Teams is…
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Apptoto vs. GoReminders: Which Does Client Reminders Better?
Faced with finding an appointment reminder and scheduling solution, many people just flip a virtual coin. There are so many solutions it’s hard to know which is the best answer…
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Apptoto’s seamless integration with Virtual Meetings
Based on our data, we’ve seen a 10x increase in the number of virtual meetings this year! This change in behavior is almost certainly due to COVID; however, Virtual Meetings…
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Make Rescheduling Effortless with Apptoto’s Appointment Scheduler
We are hearing from clients that many of you are starting to re-open in lieu of the COVID-19 shutdown. As you begin to re-open, you may want to ask clients…
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Introducing “Compose to All” Appointments
Apptoto has had the ability to message multiple appointments at once for a while now. However, doing so required you to manually check checkboxes for each appointment you want to…
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Rebook Past Clients & Reconnect with Apptoto Campaigns
We are reopening and reconnecting worldwide after many companies had to cancel appointments due to COVID-19. Losing those clients and that revenue is detrimental at any time, particularly when we…
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Send Texts from Your Business Landline
According to an FCC study done in 2017, only 10% of the 455 million telephone numbers in the United States are landlines. A whopping 75% of numbers are mobile phones.…
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Limit Impact of Cellular Carrier Filtering on Your Business Messaging
Recently, Sprint and T-Mobile have increased their text filtering criteria, causing some text messages to fail to send. Unfortunately, our service provider does not always flag failed messages. This means…
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How to Keep Patient Messaging HIPAA Compliant?
Healthcare professionals spend hours each week sending reminders to their patients. Whether you or your staff are taking care of it, manually sending messages to patients about their upcoming appointments…
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New Customization Features for Apptoto Booking Pages
Apptoto’s online scheduling just got better! Now, you can customize the look and feel of your booking pages to match your business’s brand. Another great addition that our customers asked…
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How to use Apptoto Webhooks
Apptoto Webhooks allow you to integrate Apptoto’s Appointment Messaging & Scheduling Platform further into your workflow by triggering things to happen when certain events happen in Apptoto (e.g., when someone…
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New Auto Messages Editor
We’ve recently started rolling out a new version of our “Auto Messages” tab inside of the Apptoto application. All new users have access to it, and all existing users can…
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What is Apptoto?
Apptoto is an automated appointment reminder and online scheduling solution for appointment-based businesses. What Does Apptoto do? The robust appointment management platform was born out of our founder’s passion for…
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How to Add Appointment Scheduling Links to Your Google My Business Profile
Google is always rolling out new features aimed at helping small and local businesses bring more customers through the door. Their aim seems to be to establish themselves as a…
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Apptoto Custom Features Spotlight: From Auto Replies to Custom Fields
We spoke with Tyler, one of our customer support specialists, about the needs and pain points our customers seek help with. Luckily, Apptoto has an arsenal of custom features to…