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Advice, interviews, guides and product updates to simplify your operations.

Scheduling recurring email or text messages

Scheduling recurring email or text messages

Activity Messenger allows you to send an email or a text message at a later time. Now it is possible to schedule a recurrence. Useful if you want to send a weekly reminder for example. Schedule To schedule a recurring message, click on the Schedule button on the New message screen. The popup will al…

Martin Drapeau
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Migrating from Mailchimp or Constant Contact

Migrating from Mailchimp or Constant Contact

Activity Messenger is a full replacement to Mailchimp and Constant Contact built specifically for Sports & Leisure organizations and Schools. Getting started can be overwhelming. That’s why we wrote a 4-step migration guide. Step 1 - Create a subscribers form to collect contacts Create a Subscribers…

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What to do during and after a Gmail outage

Google has had a major outage over the past two days. Considering 45% of all emails sent by Activity Messenger are to Gmail addresses, this is a problem. The outage may have affected delivery of emails to your clients that use Gmail in the morning of Dec 14th, and the afternoon of Dec 15th. For exam…

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Activity Messenger is Growing

I’m very excited to announce that Olivier Rousseau has joined Activity Messenger to lead Growth. Olivier brings 10 years of operations and marketing experience in Sports & Leisure. He is the co-owner of Sportball Rive Nord, an organization which introduces sports to young children. Olivier is an ope…

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Zoom Classes – Daily Digest & Health Check

This historical Activity Messenger article is retained for URL continuity. Its original body is no longer available on the previous website.For current guidance related to Zoom Classes – Daily Digest & Health Check, visit Activity Messenger’s Zoom Meetings feature.

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Running Zoom Classes Sold on Amilia – Improvements

This historical Activity Messenger article is retained for URL continuity. Its original body is no longer available on the previous website.For current guidance related to Running Zoom Classes Sold on Amilia – Improvements, visit Activity Messenger’s Zoom Meetings feature.

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Notifying admins when a form or waiver is filled

Notifying admins when a form or waiver is filled

You’ve been many asking if Activity Messenger could notify by email administrators when a form or waiver gets filled. Well that feature has now arrived! Specify one or many admins In your form, head to the Configuration section and expand the Communication section. There is a now a new box to select…

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Sending a registration confirmation email

Sending a registration confirmation email

Often you want to send a follow-up email after someone registers to one of your programs or activities. If you are using Amilia, Activity Messenger now allows you to program a personalized message to send right after registration. The message can be sent either by email, by text message or both. Thi…

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Sending PDF documents by email and text messages

Sending PDF documents by email and text messages

Sending a PDF file by SMS can be tricky. We help you automate this by creating a link to you PDF file that can then be added to an SMS or Email. This can be sent to one or multiple recipients. Your documents - Store PDF files Introducing the Your documents tab in the Media manager. You may now uploa…

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