The fastest way to get more reviews is to ask — once, the day after, by SMS, on the SMS-vetted contact list you've already built. Analese reads appointment completion from the calendar and the receptionist, then sends a single one-question review request. Reply STOP and you stop getting them, period. No separate opt-in flow to manage, no third-party review vendor, and no manual work for your front desk.
What you get
- One-question Google review request, with the shared disclosure on the first send.
- Same consent ledger as the rest of the SMS pipeline — STOP, CANCEL, END, QUIT, STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE all honored case-insensitively.
- Server-rendered STOP ack — the system replies with the same STOP_ACK string the rest of the SMS pipeline uses, and never texts that number again.
- Plan-gated on Team and Multi-location — same gate as the missed-call and appointment texts, so the SMS boundary flips in one place.
How the dispatcher runs
- 01The receptionist bookmarks an appointment as completed — through the daily-summary inbox, the dashboard, or the same completion hook that powers appointment verifications.
- 02A trigger row flows to /api/review-request/trigger, which checks the customer's plan and the recipient's SMS consent ledger before dispatching anything.
- 03A single one-question SMS goes out within minutes — the link points to the Google review flow configured for the business.
- 04Reply STOP opts the recipient out across every pipeline that shares the consent ledger — same rule as the rest of the SMS pipeline.
- 05Your team tracks review-request throughput in the daily summary email.
A buyer question: why a one-question SMS instead of a vendor?
Most review-request vendors ride as bolt-on dashboard apps with their own consent ledger, separate opt-out flow, and a separate dashboard to monitor. Analese's review-request rides on the same SMS pipeline and consent ledger that miss-call and appointment texts already use. One opt-out covers every text on Team and Multi-location, so you don't have to maintain a separate vendor database to enforce the shared product behavior. The trade-off is that we only do the one-question Google flow (not vendors that ship bespoke review platforms) — for most service businesses, that's the right scope.
A buyer question: what about reply rate?
Reply rates for one-question post-appointment SMS requests are usually in the 8–15% range when sent within minutes of the appointment being marked complete. The window matters: send within the day, not days later. Send to the customer's mobile, not a desk line. Send a one-question text, not a survey. That's the only shape Analese ships today, and it's the shape that hits the floor of the funnel.