Josh are you using Twilio? I am thinking about integrating it with my
powercode billing server myself

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:42 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Powercode uses Twilio for SMS.  I don't see why you should avoid it, it's
> another medium to connect with customers.
>
> As far as customers calling you direct personally I just ignore it and
> handle it when I'm done fixing stuff.  If they want an urgent answer they
> can call the main office.  I would start with a voicemail message saying
> you'll get back when you can buy for any service issues it is best to call
> the office.
>
> Protip:  outgoing outage message when people call in so they know and hang
> up before talking to anyone
>
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Kurt Fankhauser <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have had the same personal cell number for almost 10 years now and
>> because of things like me calling a client while on the road and them
>> saving my number I have a boatload of them that are always texting/calling
>> it whenever they have an issue. Its really annoying since I have hired an
>> office assistant and I am paying them to answer calls now. I had an outage
>> a month ago and probably had 20 of the same message from numbers I did not
>> know who they were all asking if the internet was down. I am considering
>> changing my personal cell number now and keeping the old one and just
>> having it forward to the office number and maybe get some sort of text auto
>> reply set up on it to send a message back whenever anyone texts it saying
>> that this is an auto response, for support issues please call the office
>> number at xxx-xxx-xxxx. Then when I get my new number I now have a VOIP app
>> that can call out from the cell and make it appear like the office number
>> so this issue doesn't happen again.
>>
>> The only downfall to this is there are a lot of important contacts i have
>> that have the cell number that I do need to be in contact with for
>> emergency situations. And is anyone doing any sort of SMS messaging for
>> customer service? Or should that be avoided?
>>
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