There was a price change to SMS text messaging. Enterprise accounts will incur a charge of $0.05 per text message. This change added $0.02 per message for Enterprise accounts. SMS providers have increased their per text message in conjunction with increases in carrier fees and text length or segmentation charges.
The end result was x3 to x5 increases in costs for our Bizstim SMS gateway fees. We have instituted a hard cap on message length. No text message will have more than 136 characters. Make sure your default SMS messages do not go over the 136 characters per message count. If the message is more than 136 characters the message will be cut off.
For the past 6-8 weeks your text messages did go out without being cut off and you were only charged the fee for one text message. The text message history table may appear to be cut off but that is because we have a character count limit on that table field. Again, those messages were sent in their entirety and you were not penalized with respect to price.
The cost for Small Business accounts did not change. Small business accounts still incur a cost of $0.10 per text message.
The following is a list of other updates to the software:
- added meeting link column option to the practitioners lists for admin and staff users
- updated business summary report to show hours for the given date interval
- updated business summary report to calculate average cost per hour instead of average cost per session
- session view pages under statistics now shows hours for duration instead of minutes
- added red indicator for missed and cancelled sessions for the practitioner's calendar
- improved page loading for the security audit module
- improved page loading for the wage manager
- improved exporting of session data
- improved exporting of payment data. Changed debits from reporting as negative amounts to positive amounts since this was confusing users
- added Club-Z! module for business clients who are Club-Z! franchise owners
- added zip code tracking and revenue reporting for the Club-Z! module
- small change to the address output on invoices and payments
- made performance changes to the session pages for admin and staff users. Removed redundant features to decrease load time
- the inquiry form for clients will now save the client provided message to the client's notes section in addition to the sales manager. This message can then be shared with their assigned practitioner/tutor
- changed text phone field example to: Country code and number instead of 1-605-555-7979. This impacts all users add and edit pages. Keep in mind the text phone numbers are formatted before they are sent to the SMS carrier. You can add spaces, dashes and parenthesis as desired
- fixed incorrect invoice template message sent when an invoice state was manually changed. Invoice ready message was being sent for paid invoices. This has been fixed. For paid invoices the “Thanks For Payment” message will be sent
If you have any questions, please contact support at mail@bizstim.com.
Sincerely,
The Bizstim Team
