SPIKE the emailing situation and see if we can roll text messages in this

[drteresavasquez]

Good article: https://www.courier.com/guides/python-send-sms/

This looks the most recent and promising: https://pypi.org/project/googlevoice/

Not sure if this still would work:

• https://sphinxdoc.github.io/pygooglevoice/index.html
• EXAMPLES: https://sphinxdoc.github.io/pygooglevoice/examples.html

[drteresavasquez]

@Justin-Ferwerda I added you to this because you are so good a researching!

[Justin-Ferwerda]

SMS services

• Twilio Seems to be the simplest although isn't free, but I haven't come across a free option yet

Django Packages

• django-sms

Other Resources

• Django + Celery Setup on Microsoft Azure We will want to schedule something to run once a day or twice a day to see what events are happening 48 hours from now in order to send the sms/email, Celery seems to be the most-used way to do that.

[Justin-Ferwerda]

It also looks like if we wanted to use Courier their automations could potentially work without having to set up a separate worker because you can set up a delay to sent the notification. So we could send the automation message when the appointment is created and set the delay to whenever the 48 hours before the appointment or send right away if the appointment was scheduled less than 48 hours in advance. I like this option a lot.

[Justin-Ferwerda]

Implemented Courier on a branch and shared details with design team to implement email designs.