Online banking has seen an incredible boom in the last decade, including the massive uptake of mobile banking. While mobile banking was originally performed through SMS then through mobile browsers, with mobile banking becoming far more commonplace in society, banking apps have become increasingly sophisticated and the security to protect customers has had to evolve accordingly. Financial institutions of all kinds, including banks, building societies, credit unions, credit card companies, remittance companies, brokerage firms, non-bank lenders and money transfer enterprises can benefit enormously from mobile banking, as can their clients.
School administration can be streamlined and improved immeasurably through enhanced communications and software integrations. Almost everyone has a mobile phone, and even the most basic mobile phones have the capacity to both send and receive SMS text messages.
Using SMS for administration in education is the most appropriate and convenient way to communicate with the school or other educational institution's community: parents, teachers, students, and other staff.
No matter the type of educational institution, you can use SMS text messaging to keep all parties informed of developments or last minute changes. Education text messaging can be applied to preschools, primary and secondary schools, universities, TAFE colleges, learning centres, community colleges, and other training and educational facilities.
Absenteeism alerts: promptly alert parents or guardians to a child's absence. The parent can either respond via text to explain the absence, or is alerted to truancy on their child's part. These alerts can link back to your attendance tracking software through integration.
Monitor student welfare
Communicate wet weather plans to parents on excursion or carnival days
Remind parents of student free days, Book Week dress ups, uniform-free days, etc
Provide excursion updates
Reminders for sporting carnivals and events
Coordinate parent volunteers
Send enrolment information
Send payment reminders
Provide updates on student performance and progress
Notify of parent teacher events
Bonus: does your school use a parent teacher interview scheduling tool? If you schedule through SimplyBook.me, ScheduleOnce or similar software, you can create no-code integrations with eBulletin to automate your confirmation SMS when interviews are booked. Take the automations further and reduce the risk of no- shows by sending SMS reminders on the day, with the time of the interview and how to find the correct room or a video conference link.
If you work for a university, TAFE, community college or trade school, create a two-way communication channel with your students with SMS messaging for tertiary institutions. Use text messaging to keep students informed of:
Encourage happy customers to leave reviews on social media or online
Send SMS to service personnel to direct them to jobs
Advise customers of pending service arrival or deliveries
Send payment reminders
Advise order cancellations for non-payment
Thank customers for their patronage
Encourage customer feedback
Through the use of text messaging you know that the message will reach on time every time.
Create greater connections with your customers in the moments that matter with messaging that actually gets read.
