Reduce staff workload with automated reminders
Under-staffed and over-worked?
This is a common complaint, often accompanied by the comment that “the last thing we need just now is more clients!” - who would have thought?!
As staff shortages increase, now is the perfect time to turn to automation. Many industries have gone some way down this path already, with the motivation to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Think airline self-serve check-in and supermarket checkouts.
The vet clinic approach to automation should be around reducing administration tasks to allow your existing staff more time to provide a quality customer experience. The adage that it costs far more to attract new customers than to do more business with existing clients still holds true. Ensuring your existing clients are kept regularly informed of their pet’s clinical needs is not only good for the health of their pets but good for the health of your clinic. Reliable, regular, high-quality reminders are seen by your clients as a valuable service and will bring profitable, “easy” business through your doors.
How can you introduce automation into your veterinary clinic?
Created by vets, for vets, iRecall is designed for just this purpose. Sending 100 impersonalised reminders manually is a huge time drain for your team. With iRecall's ability to work alongside your clinic management system, however, 100 SMS messages could be sent without any input from your staff at all, at a total cost of just £3.*
It's also running in real-time, to help manage your workload. Instead of having an influx of appointments after bulk reminders are sent out, iRecall works day and night to send reminders to customers to give you a steady workflow of appointments across each month. It also allows you to streamline the customer experience by including the link to your online booking in the SMS & email messages. Reduce the number of clients being asked to hold when calling or having their clinic check-in/check-out interrupted by the phone! iRecall ensures your clients' experiences are second to none!
Focus on what's important
iRecall frees your staff to concentrate on your clients and their pets, in the here and now of your clinic. As an adjunct to good customer service, you can ask them what they thought of their experience via our state-of-the-art Review module. This allows you to keep track of client sentiment in real-time, encouraging positive Google/Facebook reviews and alerting you immediately to any detractors.
What is more, as with all iRecall communications, each touchpoint is implemented by Virtual Recall’s support engineers as part of the managed service and then set to be sent automatically, giving you back invaluable time to focus on your team, your clients, and their pets. And if you don’t have enough clients? iRecall’s suite of Engage marketing campaigns can help keep your appointment book full of quality work.