I have clients complaining over getting reminders even though they have all ready booked a new appointment.
My setup is like this: I have a 6 month SMS reminder and a 7 month Email reminder. (6 and 7 months after their first booking.)
But it seems like the system is not recognizing/resetting a new booking with same mail if booked before 6-7 months ( before the original reminder) . It is not resetting the reminder interval according to the new booking. Hense the wrong reminder.
Why is the reminder system not resetting when a returning customer books a new appointment?
Please provide me a temporary WP-admin (administrator) user for your site where this happens, so we could log in and take a look ‘from the inside’ as that’s the most efficient way to see and resolve the issue.
We do not interfere with any data or anything else except for the plugin (in case that’s a production version of the site), and of course, we do not provide login data to third parties.
You can write credentials here just check PRIVATE Reply so nobody can see them except us.
I've tried the credentials from the previous ticket, but seems like the creds are not correct.
Nothing has been changed, perhaps the cron job is not properly configured? Here is how the reminder notifications should be configured
Depending on the server, there are different configurations for it, which you can contact your hosting provider about, or you can check out one of the solutions for it on this link.
GET 'https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wpamelia_api&call=/notifications/scheduled/send' > /dev/null
WP Crontrol plugin is the best option if you're not familiar with cron jobs. You can find more info about it, and detailed instructions on how to set it up in our FAQ section.
So, if you already read that, and still need some clarification here's some further info.
You copy only the URL from below a scheduled notification:
Then, go to Tools/Cron Events, and click on the "Cron Schedules" tab. In it, add a 15-minute interval:
Then go back to the "Cron Events" tab and click on "Add new":
Below it, select the "PHP Cron event" radio button, and add the URL you copied from Amelia/Notifications in this form:
file_get_contents("yourURL");
Below it add the name and set it to run a few minutes in the future, using the provided time format. So, if you're adding the cron event at 12:45 (local, current time), set it to run at 12:50; and then select the schedule you previously selected:
Click on Add Event, and that's it.
The cron runs every 15 minutes and checks if there's an email to be sent. So, in Amelia Notifications, your scheduled notifications are set to run every day at a certain time. If you set that time to be 15:00 (for example), the emails will be sent when the cron runs after that time.
For example, there's an appointment booked for tomorrow, and it's currently 14:44 - the cron runs, but since it's not yet 15:00, it doesn't send anything. It runs again after 15 minutes, so at 14:59, but there are still no emails flagged by Amelia, so it doesn't send anything. Then it runs again at 15:14 and it sees there's an email that should've been sent at 15:00, so it sends the email. It will only send emails when Amelia sees an appointment scheduled for the next day.
That's fine, thats how the reminder scheduled messages are configured. But you also need to configure the cron job that is going to send these messages. They are not sent by default, like the standard ones. This is why you need to configure the cron job (with WPCrontrol)
It depends on the configuration, but the cron job "scans" all the emails that need to be sent at the exact time, and if the same cron job finds the emails that are not sent, he sends them, as well.
It can be related to this option, but what is more important is that you have the correct cron job configuration. As I mentioned previously, having scheduled notifications configured through the notification section, won't send them without the cron job.
You would need to configure the cron job via WPCrontrol plugin, as I provided the instructions previously.
Hi Amelia
I have clients complaining over getting reminders even though they have all ready booked a new appointment.
My setup is like this: I have a 6 month SMS reminder and a 7 month Email reminder. (6 and 7 months after their first booking.)
But it seems like the system is not recognizing/resetting a new booking with same mail if booked before 6-7 months ( before the original reminder) . It is not resetting the reminder interval according to the new booking. Hense the wrong reminder.
Why is the reminder system not resetting when a returning customer books a new appointment?
Hello Mikkel,
Thanks for reaching out to us.
Please provide me a temporary WP-admin (administrator) user for your site where this happens, so we could log in and take a look ‘from the inside’ as that’s the most efficient way to see and resolve the issue.
We do not interfere with any data or anything else except for the plugin (in case that’s a production version of the site), and of course, we do not provide login data to third parties.
You can write credentials here just check PRIVATE Reply so nobody can see them except us.
I've tried the credentials from the previous ticket, but seems like the creds are not correct.
Thanks.
Kind Regards,
Stefan Petrov
[email protected]
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Hi again Stefan
Sorry about my late response on this tread.
Have you changed anything regarding the reminder service?
Sorry . thought i did. :-)
ok
Because i still experience that customers get a reminder even though they have already made a new booking.
Hi Mikkel,
Nothing has been changed, perhaps the cron job is not properly configured? Here is how the reminder notifications should be configured
Depending on the server, there are different configurations for it, which you can contact your hosting provider about, or you can check out one of the solutions for it on this link.
Also, you can try this:
*/15 * * * * wget -q -O - "https://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wpamelia_api&call=/notifications/scheduled/send"
Or this:
*/15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php ~/public_html/wp-cron.php --action='wpamelia_api' --call='/notifications/scheduled/send'
Or this:
GET 'https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wpamelia_api&call=/notifications/scheduled/send' > /dev/null
WP Crontrol plugin is the best option if you're not familiar with cron jobs. You can find more info about it, and detailed instructions on how to set it up in our FAQ section.
So, if you already read that, and still need some clarification here's some further info.
You copy only the URL from below a scheduled notification:
Then, go to Tools/Cron Events, and click on the "Cron Schedules" tab. In it, add a 15-minute interval:
Then go back to the "Cron Events" tab and click on "Add new":
Below it, select the "PHP Cron event" radio button, and add the URL you copied from Amelia/Notifications in this form:
Below it add the name and set it to run a few minutes in the future, using the provided time format. So, if you're adding the cron event at 12:45 (local, current time), set it to run at 12:50; and then select the schedule you previously selected:
Click on Add Event, and that's it.
The cron runs every 15 minutes and checks if there's an email to be sent. So, in Amelia Notifications, your scheduled notifications are set to run every day at a certain time. If you set that time to be 15:00 (for example), the emails will be sent when the cron runs after that time.
For example, there's an appointment booked for tomorrow, and it's currently 14:44 - the cron runs, but since it's not yet 15:00, it doesn't send anything. It runs again after 15 minutes, so at 14:59, but there are still no emails flagged by Amelia, so it doesn't send anything. Then it runs again at 15:14 and it sees there's an email that should've been sent at 15:00, so it sends the email. It will only send emails when Amelia sees an appointment scheduled for the next day.
I hope that helps.
Kind Regards,
Stefan Petrov
[email protected]
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Hello Mikkel,
That's fine, thats how the reminder scheduled messages are configured. But you also need to configure the cron job that is going to send these messages. They are not sent by default, like the standard ones. This is why you need to configure the cron job (with WPCrontrol)
Kind Regards,
Stefan Petrov
[email protected]
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It depends on the configuration, but the cron job "scans" all the emails that need to be sent at the exact time, and if the same cron job finds the emails that are not sent, he sends them, as well.
Kind Regards,
Stefan Petrov
[email protected]
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Hi Mikkel,
It can be related to this option, but what is more important is that you have the correct cron job configuration. As I mentioned previously, having scheduled notifications configured through the notification section, won't send them without the cron job.
You would need to configure the cron job via WPCrontrol plugin, as I provided the instructions previously.
Kind Regards,
Stefan Petrov
[email protected]
Rate my support
Try our FREE mapping plugin! MapSVG - easy Google maps, interactive SVG maps, and floor plans, choropleth maps and much more - https://wordpress.org/plugins/mapsvg-lite-interactive-vector-maps/
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