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When a patient texts your clinic’s Routiq number, Robyn reads it and works out what they need. She knows who they are from their mobile number, matched against your practice system. Then she books, answers or passes it to your team.

What she does

Books, moves and cancels

She finds real times in your diary and offers them. Nothing changes until the patient replies YES.

Answers clinic questions

From What Robyn knows. When your clinic is Live, she answers questions about opening hours, where you are, parking and your phone number on her own.

Drafts the other answers

Any other answer she writes waits for your team to approve, in the Message Queue under Replies.

Hands to a person

When she shouldn’t or can’t answer, the conversation goes to Needs a person and your team is told.

What she never does

  • She never gives medical advice, a diagnosis or a treatment suggestion.
  • She never makes up times or prices.
  • She never says something is booked before it is.
  • She never books someone your practice system doesn’t know. If a new number asks to book, the conversation goes to your team.

A conversation, start to finish

Here’s a made-up example of a patient booking by text. Robyn writes her own opening line, so it changes from conversation to conversation. The times, the “Reply YES” question and the confirmation always follow the pattern above.

Choose how Robyn works

Go to Settings, then Operating mode: “Who presses send: you, or Robyn.” Only an owner or admin can change it. Before you switch to Live, the app asks “Go live?”: “Rebooking messages go out to real patients without review, on the saved schedule, and Robyn replies to patients on her own. You can return to Assisted at any time.” Press Go live to confirm. A new clinic starts in Live, but nothing is sent until it has its number and credits. If your clinic is Live and something still stops Robyn replying, Operating mode tells you, for example “Robyn has no clinic information to answer from yet.” with a link to add it.

Pause Robyn in one conversation

Open the conversation in Chat and press Pause Robyn. She stops replying in that thread, and her unsent drafts there are cancelled. The patient’s texts still come in. Everyone at your clinic sees that she’s paused. When one of your team replies in a thread, Robyn pauses there automatically. To hand the conversation back, press Let Robyn reply. If your clinic is Live and the patient’s last text is still waiting, she answers it.

When she replies

Robyn replies at any hour, as soon as a text arrives. Rebooking messages and campaigns are different: they only go out during your sending window. See the Message Queue.