Creating messaging around an event is super easy with Text In Church. You can create a whole series of messages scheduled in advance to send before, on, and after your event date.
Head on over to the Connect tab and choose Workflows in the sub-menu. From here, choose Create New and select Create From Scratch.
Then choose the Calendar Date Trigger in your Workflow Trigger Settings!
Then, you will enter the date of your event as the Trigger date. Next, you will choose which Group this Workflow will send messages to.
Don't forget to click the blue Next button to save your settings!
From here, you will add your Workflow steps as needed, and the scheduling of each message will be around the Trigger Date you chose in the first step with your Workflow's Trigger Settings.
You can send messages on the Trigger Date or Schedule the Message to go on a date before or after the Trigger date.
A prime example of this would be an upcoming outreach event for Easter. You can now ask people to RSVP for the event by Keyword and get added to the Group.
With this Workflow connected, it doesn’t matter what day they join the Group; they can still get a reminder message for the event and a thank you afterward.
If a person joins the group on the day of the event, they will only get scheduled messages for the date or after.
It's almost like when you're watching a movie at the movie theatre! If you arrive late, you can't rewind the movie to see the parts you missed, but you can finish watching the movie with everyone else!
To learn more about creating Workflows check out these articles.
