OpenCart Advanced Booking & Reservation Reminder Add-On

The major aspect of any business is customers. Therefore it is very important to be in touch with customers so as to gain their trust and develop a healthy relationship with the customers.

This doesn’t mean you need to be physically present with the customers. It isn’t practically possible, but through SMS’s or Emails, one can surely keep in touch with the customers of a store.

Through OpenCart Advanced Booking & Reservation Reminder Add-On, the admin of the store can send notifications to the customers for the bookings and reservations they have made via SMS or Email.

• The admin can send reminder notifications to the customers of the store.
• The notifications can be in the form of SMS or Emails.
• The admin can send the notifications once the bookings have been made by the customers.
• It is a good way of reminding the customer of the bookings in case the customer forgets about the bookings made.
• A good relationship with customers will always initiate a thriving business in terms of conversion rates.

Once the status of the module is enabled the admin can add the authentication number received from the MSG91 website, the sender id, select a country, enable the tabs for SMS or Email notifications.

• Enable or disable the status of the module.
• Add the Authentication token retrieved after registering at MSG91.
• Put the cron path link to send notifications.
• Enter the Sender ID that is used for sending the messages.
• Enable the Email and SMS notification tabs so as to receive the email or SMS notifications.
• Set the reminder numeric number before which the notifications will be sent.

Under the Template tab, the admin can configure the settings for the SMS and the Email tab. These templates are used for reminding the customers of the bookings according to the configured reminder difference by the admin.

• The admin can configure the settings for the SMS or the Email templates.
• The admin can choose from various template choices that must be used to send the SMS and Email templates.
• The admin can create the template as required.
• The template can be edited if additional information is to be added using the available codes.
• Using Templates enhances the format of the SMS and the Email Notification.

Customers can go forth and make a booking just in the usual way. After the customers have made a reservation for a particular date, the customer will be notified in advance about the booking.

Depending upon the reminder that the admin has set up in the module configuration section, the customers will receive the SMS or the Email notifications, or both related to the bookings.

• The customer will receive the SMS or Email notifications for the reservations they have made.
• Separate Email notification for booking will be sent to the customers.
• Separate SMS notification for will be sent to the customers for the bookings.
• It is a good way to reach out to the customers.
• This will help the business entrepreneurs create goodwill amongst the customers.