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• How messaging works in VisionScaper
  A map of texts, email, the inbox and the settings screens, and who sets up what.
• Set up Twilio for texting
  Paste your Twilio details into Settings → VisionScaper and point incoming texts at VisionScaper.
• Set up Telnyx for texting
  Switch the site to Telnyx for texts, paste your Telnyx details, and add the webhook address.
• Set up your email service
  Choose Postmark, Resend, SendGrid, Amazon SES or the site's own mail, and fill in the right boxes.
• Get ready to text (A2P 10DLC)
  Fill in the three-step form so your business can be approved to send texts.
• Incoming message webhook addresses
  Every webhook address VisionScaper gives your text and email services, and where to find each one.
• Check your email sender (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
  Run the sender check in Marketing → Safety and fix any of the three DNS records it says are missing.
• Site-wide safety switches and monthly limits
  The administrator's kill switch, approval rules, redaction, retention and monthly caps in VisionScaper Messaging.
• Use the Messages inbox
  Read and answer conversations, filter by what needs a reply, and mute, archive or mark unread.
• Two-way text conversations
  Answer customer texts in Marketing → Conversations, add notes, assign a thread and send a weather delay notice.
• Write quick replies
  Save short answers once, then drop them into any conversation with one tap.
• Edit message templates and alerts
  Change the wording, channels and timing of every automatic customer message and alert to you.
• Appointment reminders to customers
  Set how long before each appointment customers get an email, text or in-app reminder, and what you get yourself.
• Consent and opt-outs
  How consent, STOP, START, HELP and unsubscribes work, and why a stop on one channel is honored on all.
• Record consent you already have
  Save proof that a customer agreed to texts or emails, for one person or a pasted list.
• Automatic text replies and the AI notice
  Set HELP, after-hours, keyword and urgent-word replies, and decide whether the AI says it is an AI.
• A tour of the Marketing page
  What each Marketing tab does, how to start the AI marketing assistant, and how to pause everything.
• Create and send a campaign
  Pick a template, choose who gets it, write the message, schedule it and approve it.
• Choose who gets a campaign
  Use stage, services, last job, spend, towns and tags to build an audience, and read why people are left out.
• Automations: follow-ups that run themselves
  Turn on step-by-step flows, choose Autopilot or Ask me first, and edit the wording of each message.
• The AI marketing assistant and Approvals
  Ask the assistant questions, let it write messages, and approve what it prepares with one tap.
• Marketing safety checks, sending limits and usage
  The checks every message passes, your sending limits and hours, and how to see usage and add extra message packs.
• Marketing results and group-posting reminders
  See which messages led to booked jobs, and set reminders to post in Facebook and Nextdoor groups.
• Ask customers for reviews
  Set your review links, when requests go out, and share a review link and QR code.
• Draft replies to reviews with AI
  Paste a review, let the AI draft a reply in your voice, edit and approve it, then paste it on the review site yourself.
• Send postcards with tracked QR codes
  Pick who gets a postcard, choose a seasonal design, approve the cost, and watch QR scans and delivery.
• Bring in leads from Angi, Thumbtack and Google Local Services
  Give each lead source a secret address or paste its email, and new requests land as customers without doubles.
• Set up the AI Receptionist
  The administrator adds provider keys and webhooks; you then run the six-step setup and go live.
• AI Receptionist calls, campaigns and minutes
  Review calls, run calling campaigns safely, keep the do-not-call list, and watch your monthly minutes.
• Add the website chat widget
  Turn on a chat box for your site, set its look and hours, paste the snippet, and answer chats from your inbox.
• Add social links and a work gallery
  Show your Google, Facebook and other links, plus up to 60 finished-work photos, on your pages and proposals.
• Put the request form on your website and stop spam
  Turn on the request form, embed it with a shortcode or one line, and use built-in spam traps and optional Turnstile.