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Digitally onboard new staff for your summer camps

Digitally onboard new staff for your summer camps

Hiring camp counsellors and seasonal staff every year is one of the most time-consuming parts of running a summer camp. Between collecting contracts, chasing down certifications, and answering the same questions over and over, the administrative load can eat up weeks before the season even starts. T…

Olivier Rousseau
Camps
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Interac e-Transfer

Interac e-Transfer

If you’re in Canada, you can offer clients to pay with Interac e-Transfers. Activity Messenger tracks everything for you. 💬 What our customers say: “Adding Interac e-Transfer by email as an option to pay online has saved thousands of dollars a month in credit card fees. This was made possible by Ac…

Martin Drapeau
Features
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Messaging your staff

Messaging your staff

In this article, we’ll discuss how to improve internal communications and increase employee engagement with Bulk SMS/Mass Texting to employees. We’ll discuss: How to send bulk SMS to your employees Personnalized Bulk SMS to segmented lists of employees How to Schedule bulk SMS to your staff Send emp…

Olivier Rousseau
Employee Management
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Membership renewal reminders

Membership renewal reminders

You can now program Activity Messenger to send membership renewal reminders a number of days before the membership expires. This is a great way to reminder your customer to renew their membership. This new automated task works both with Amilia memberships and uploaded lists from Excel. Building a li…

Martin Drapeau
Features
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Class reminders

Class reminders

We’ve added a new automation called “Class reminders”. Let Activity Messenger’s Automation Bot send an email or text message to participants before, or after, each class. Class reminders are perfect to send COVID-19 waivers the morning of a class to allow participants to fill it in before showing up…

Martin Drapeau
Features
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Sending to both parents and combining families

Sending to both parents and combining families

We know you often deal with children. Many of you have asked for more options to send to both parents and to combine, or not, families in the same email. Today I’m happy to anounce two additional features for list building and mass emailing. Combine people with the same email address There is a new…

Martin Drapeau
Features
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Import your camps from Excel

Import your camps from Excel

Summer camps are coming fast! That’s why in preparation for the new Attendance tracking module (see below), we have improved our import engine. First though, we’d like to welcome our many new customers using iClassPro, Uplifter, Jackrabbit and Qidigo! Also, we’re happy to announce that Activity Mess…

Martin Drapeau
Camps
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Automate birthday wishes, purchase confirmations and session start emails

Automate birthday wishes, purchase confirmations and session start emails

We’ve added new automated tasks! With Activity Messenger, you can now send an email or text message… for Happy Birthday wishes before the first activity of a session after someone purchases a membership or multi-pass in Amilia Send a Happy Birthday email You can program Activity Messenger to send a…

Martin Drapeau
Features
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The number one tactic to improve your marketing newsletter

The number one tactic to improve your marketing newsletter

If you run a Sports & Leisure organisation and can relate with any of the following points, it’s probably time to switch to a communication platform that was specifically designed for Sports & Leisure. 1- You only really use one feature: Email Marketing Mailchimp only helps solve one communication p…

Olivier Rousseau
Features
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