Message with multiple levels of interaction for appointment reminder

Can you advise if I can customise the ending of Broadcasted message to whatever I want? For example, if I set Press 2 to confirm your appointment and when the patient press 2, instead of “Thank you and Goodbye” I would like the message to be “You have chosen 2. Thank you and Goodbye.”

Yes, but not with Message Designer.

You have to use IVR Studio to create multilevel interactive messages.

I am running a 4 lines BBP Professional version for appointment reminders. Currently the settings are

Press 1 to repeat, press 2 to confirm and press 3 to reschedule. So when the patient/receiver press either one, they will immediately hear “Thank you and Goodbye.”

Now what I want is that after the receiver made the choice, there will be an end message like “Thank you for confirming your appointment with us” or “you have requested to change your appointment, our staff will contact you within the next working day” or “you have request to cancel your appointment, our staff will contact you within the next working day”

So if IVR can craft out this message, how many lines of IVR do I need JUST for this purpose?

You need one line IVR Studio. The lines licensed with IVR Studio is for inbound applications. You have 4 licensed lines for outbound applications through BBP autodialer already.

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Set multiple call transfer numbers for autodialer

How do I get the software to roll over to more than one extension. i put the extension, then a comma then the next extension. but it it only transfers to the extension I put first. Please advise.

Please select Voicent Gateway Main menu > Setup > Options > Call Transfer, then enter the comma separated phone numbers in the box labeled “default phone numbers to transfer to”.

However each call can only be transferred to one number. On the next call will be transferred to the next phone number.

If you want to roll over the same call transfer, it cannot be accomplished with the software. This is becuase once a call is transferred, the modem line is disconnected from the caller and the transferred party. However, you could call your phone company to set up “busy call forwarding” or “delayed call forwarding” on the first transferred the number.

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Schedule autodialer using Windows scheduler

I am writing a batch file which I will use with Windows scheduler to automate an import of a CSV file and broadcast to the numbers in that file. Following is the single line in the batch file. When I run it, it generates an error saying that the Name column is missing. When I click OK, it opens BoradcastByPhone with all the columns missing. If I close BroadcastByPhone and open it without the batch file, it still opens with no columns and I have to open a saved blank VOC file to get the columns back.

Here is the line in the batch file:

“C:\Program Files\Voicent\BroadcastByPhone\bin\vcast.exe” -startnow -wavfile
“C:\Program Files\Voicent\MyRecordings\Male Voice
Recordings\Telephone_Courtesy.wav” -import “C:\Program Files\Voicent\Call_Lists\test.csv” -noexit

Any help you can provide on the correct syntax is appreciated.

The first command line argument should be a VOC file. This can be an existing one or a new one.

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