The Schedule Extension, now allows “schedule plans” to be created.

Using a schedule plan you can send out a series of messages to group members, based on the date when they joined the group. For example, you could send your customers a loyalty discount code 3 months after joining or send a renewal message 11 months into a year’s subscription.

The joining date could be the day when they  subscribed, or the date when you, as the site administrator, manually added them to the group.

You can add as many items to a plan as you wish and you have the option to send out messages days. weeks, months or even years after the subscription date.

SMS, MMS, audio file or text-to-voice message types can all be added to the schedule plan.

The image below shows an example of a schedule plan for a group called “Schedule Planner Test Group”. The plan consists of 6 items; messages will be sent out to members of the selected group, 1 day after the joined the group, 2 days after they joined etc.

Schedule Plan showing 6 plan items,

When you add a plan item, you can configure the following:

• When you’d like the message to be sent, i.e. the time period after the group members’ subscription date (days, weeks, months, years).
• The time of day when you’d like the message to be sent.
• Whether this plan item is currently active or not.
• The content of your message, which can include merge tags such as %firstname%, %number%.
• An optional message suffix, which may be your site or company name.
• The message type (SMS, MMS, audio/text-to-voice).
• And a Sender ID, which replaces your Twilio number with an an alphanumeric string, such as your company name, when people receive your message. (Alphanumeric sender ids are not supported in the USA).

These options are shown in the image below.

The Schedule Planner functionality is outlined in the video below.

The Scheduler is an extension for both the Joy Of Text Pro and Lite versions and is also available as part of these product bundles.