Notifications troubleshooting: A Customer is not receiving SMS notifications

There can be a number of reasons why your Customer is not receiving SMS notifications. We recommend reviewing the following settings in your account to ensure Customers receive SMS notifications. 

Check the SMS log

  1. In the top navigation menu, select the gear icon → BillingLicensesSMSView SMS log. Learn more about SMS delivery statuses
  2. Check the status of the SMS.

Learn more about the SMS log

Make sure your account has SMS credits available

  1. Go to your OnceHub Account. 
  2. In the top navigation menu, select the gear icon → BillingLicenses. You can see the number of remaining SMS credits in the SMS box (Figure 1).Figure 1: SMS CreditsFigure 1: SMS Credits

If your SMS credit balance is zero, click the Add credits button to purchase more SMS credits. 

Learn more about SMS pricing and purchasing SMS credits

Check the Customer notification settings

You need to enable SMS notifications for each Notification scenario that the Customer should receive SMS notifications for.

  1. Hover over the lefthand menu and go to the Booking pages icon → Event types → your Event type → Customer notifications
    If your Booking pages are associated with Event types, Customer notifications will be related to the Event type.
    Go to the relevant Event type → Customer notifications.
  2. Enable SMS notifications for each Notification scenario you want to send SMS notifications to Customers for (Figure 2). Figure 2: Customer notifications section

Learn more about the Customer notifications section

Make sure your Booking form includes the mobile phone field with SMS enabled

  1. Hover over the lefthand menu and go to the Booking pages icon → hover over the left sidebar → Tools → Booking forms editor.
  2. Ensure that the Booking form you are using includes the field Your mobile phone field. You will need to check this whether you're using default Booking form or a Custom Booking form that you have modified.
  3. On the right side of the Your mobile phone field, ensure the Enable SMS checkbox is checked (Figure 3).Figure 3: Booking forms editor

    NoteYou can also make the Your mobile phone field mandatory.

Learn more about the Booking forms editor

Make sure that the Customer’s mobile number is correct

  1. Ask the Customer for the meeting’s Tracking ID or Package ID. This can be found in the booking confirmation email that the Customer received. 
  2. Look up the meeting in the Activity stream using the Tracking ID. 
  3. The Customer’s details as they were entered in the Booking form will be there. Learn more about filtering the Activity stream
  4. Check that phone number is correct. You should also make sure that it is not a landline number.

The Customer’s phone number can also be checked via the confirmation email you received when the Customer made the booking. 

NoteIf you have gone through the above steps and have not resolved your issue, please contact us.

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