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Setup Employees to receive host email and SMS notifications of visitor sign ins

 

Your Employees may be setup to receive email and/or SMS notifications of visitor sign ins.

This is done by firstly adding Host Functionality to records in your admin Employees page.

Then, add the Host Form ELEMENT to the Forms that require the visitor to select the person they are here to see as they sign in.

Create a new Employee record with Host Functionality

1. Go to your Admin Setup page (cog icon).

2. Select Employees and then the Hosts submenu (3).

4. On the right hand side, select Add Employee.

 

 

A sidebar will appear on the right hand side.

5. Enter the first and last name of your host. 

6. Add the email address to where the host email notifications will be sent. This is a required field.

7. Enter a mobile phone number. This is only required if the SMS delivery method is being used.

8. Toggle the Host Function toggle on for this record.

9. Select the Site(s) where visitors will be signing in.

10. Choose your Delivery Method… either Email or SMS or both.

11. Additional comma separated emails may be added here. Hence the host will be notified at more than their primary email address.

12. Click Create.

If neither of the Delivery Methods are checked (Email & SMS), the visitor still may make a host selection and submit the sign in form. Their selection will appear in the reports page – just no email or SMS is sent.

The record is listed on the Hosts page with “Yes” in the Host? column (13).

 

Do a Bulk Upload of Employee records with Host Functionality

Please use the .xlsx file here as a starting template.

14. Add records using the following columns:

• first_name (required)
•last_name (required)
• email (required)
• is_host (required – enter a “Y”)
• host_delivery_method (enter “SMS” or “Email” or “SMS,Email”)

 

Once your .xlsx file has been prepared, upload it by going to Actions > Bulk Upload (15).

16. Select the Site(s) where you would like the Employees to be on the host list at. 

17. Upload the filled .xlsx file.

18. Click Upload to complete the process.

 

19. Your records will appear in the list page.

 

Each .xlsx file is limited to 500 records. If you have more, please create multiple upload files.
Apostrophes in names: When adding first names or surnames that have apostrophe’s (eg: D’Angelo), please be aware that an iPad Kiosk will only recognise an angled apostrophe:

…not a vertical one:

This needs to be done for individual entries or bulk .xlsx uploads. The correct keystroke to use on a Windows device is alt+0146 and on Mac option+shift+”]”.

 

 

Form Setup

For the Visitor Types that you wish the host email notifications to occur, go the the Form that the Visitor Type uses and drag the Host FORM ELEMENT into the Form Preview Pane (20).

 

21. In the Properties pane, re-label the element to something like  “Please start typing the name of the person you are here to see…”.

22. The change will appear in the Preview Pane.

23. Save the changes. 

 

Visitor Sign In

Hence, when a visitor signs in on their phone or at the kiosk, upon reaching the form Host element and starting to type the person’s name, they will be able to make a selection eg: Matt Favela (24).

Upon completing the sign in, the notification email will be sent to Matt Favela.

 

If you need to add Host function to an existing employee record, please edit the record and toggle on the Host Function(25). Depending on the Delivery Method (26), an email address (27) and/or a phone number (28) may be required.

 
For information on advanced settings such as:

A: Giving one host record multiple email addresses
B: Giving multiple host records the same email address.

…please see this help article.

 

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