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Fewer empty tables: a text the day before each booking

Every booking gets a reminder text the day before, so guests who cannot come free the table in time.

For restaurants and cafes that take bookings online or by phone

From $490 per project

Typical timelineUsually within days of the confirmed scope

Start a sheet from itThe part this sheet is for: Automation workflow

What this template does

When a table is booked, in your booking tool or your calendar, the guest gets a short text the day before with the time, the number of people and a way to cancel. A cancelled table shows as free again before the evening starts.

Prefilled for you

The brief it fills in

When a table is booked, send the guest a text the day before with the time, the number of people and a link to cancel, and mark a cancelled table as free.

Systems it connects
  • Google Calendar
  • Your booking tool
  • SMSAPI or Twilio
Kind of job
Automations - Restaurants and cafes, Event venues

What you get

  1. One integration built, tested and running on your own accounts
  2. The steps written down, so both sides know exactly what runs
  3. Checked by a person before it is handed over
  4. Changes until you approve it

What you provide

  • Where bookings are kept today
  • The words you want the text to say
  • An account with an SMS provider, or we help you open one

Questions about this template

  1. What does it cost?This template starts a sheet for Automation workflow, at $490, the price published in the catalogue. Scope and price are confirmed before any work starts, and nothing is charged before that.
  2. How does it start?Start a sheet from it and the order opens with this template's brief already written. Change what differs for you, send it, and a person reads it before anything is built.
  3. My tools are different. Does it still fit?The systems named here are examples of what it usually connects. Write the ones you use in the brief; if that changes the size of the job, the quote says so before you accept.

Ready to run this recipe?

The sheet opens with this template's form already filled in. Change what is yours, and the price is set before anyone starts.