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          • Vello appointment reminders

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          • Vello, ezyVet, and SMS message costs

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Vello text messaging

Vello includes a full text messaging system that you can can use to quickly and easily send text messages to clients. Text messages that clients send to your practice show directly in Vello.

Note: Vello's text messaging system uses SMS.
Note: Text messages that clients receive from Vello show the phone number that your practice receives as a result of a completed SMS registration.

The Vello inbox Copy

The Vello inbox shows:
  • All text messages that you sent to clients
  • All text messages that clients sent to your practice
  • Tools that you can use to write and find text messages
  • A button that you can use to sync text messages to ezyVet
Figure 1. The Vello inbox

The Vello inbox

The Vello inbox uses a conversation view to show client messages. A conversation is a group of all messages between you and one client. Conversations make it easy to quickly find all messages between you and a client.

A conversation view for a client includes images that identify the client's pets:
Images that identify the client's pets

A conversation view for a client shows a Mark as Done button. Use Mark as Done to sync client messages to the applicable client contact record in ezyVet. You can also select which patient records of the client to sync the messages to. After Vello completes the message sync, Vello removes the messages for the applicable from view and puts them in the done view.

Figure 2. Mark as Done button

Mark as Done button
Figure 3. The done view of the inbox

The done view of the inbox

After a client uses the Vello client portal to make an appointment request, Vello automatically sends a message that tells you about the appointment request. Appointment request messages show in the Vello inbox.

Figure 4. Example of an appointment request message
Example of an appointment request message

Quick replies for text messages Copy

A quick reply is a type of message template for Vello text messages. Use a quick reply to quickly and easily send text messages to clients. The content of a quick reply is usually a message that staff send again and again.

Configured quick reply shows an example of a quick reply that a practice manager made for a dental check. Available quick reply shows the same quick reply that is available to you to select in a text message with a client.

Figure 5. Configured quick reply

Configured quick reply
Figure 6. Available quick reply

Available quick reply

Unsubscribed clientsCopy

A client can unsubscribe from text messages that you send from Vello. If a client is unsubscribed and you try to write them a text message, Vello shows this message:

This phone number has unsubscribed to your text messaging service. In order to reengage with your practice, they (the client) will need to send a text message of 'Start.
Parent topic: Reminders and messaging
Related concepts
  • Vello appointment reminders
  • Vello and medical service reminders
  • Vello Postcards
  • Out-of-office autoreplies
  • Vello: Appointment messaging and communication records
  • ezyVet and Vello: Email and text messages
  • Vello, ezyVet, and SMS message costs
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  • Vello text messaging

    • The Vello inbox

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    • Unsubscribed clients

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Last updated: February 7, 2025

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Related Articles:

  • Activate text messaging
  • Reminders and messaging
  • Vello appointment reminders
  • Vello and medical service reminders
  • Vello Postcards
  • Out-of-office autoreplies
  • Vello: Appointment messaging and communication records
  • ezyVet and Vello: Email and text messages
  • Vello, ezyVet, and SMS message costs

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