quickText

Browser extension for using SMS in any site for any number

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Inspiration

Businesses have difficulty

What it does

guickText Allows small business owners, or really anyone, to send SMS messages to any numbers that are rendered on a page. We used Intuit Quickbooks to demonstrate how this feature could facilitate customer interactions and improve engagement. Nexmo sends and receives the SMS messages and routes them to our Python server which stores the message history.

How we built it

We used Javascript and Python to build a server that

Challenges we ran into

Our requests were not working due to browser security restrictions.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the SMS requests to work with JSONP

What we learned

How to get requests to work with injected javascript across different site domains.

What's next for quickText

The Moon

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Updates

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QuickText solution was identified by interviewing small businesses here in the Bay area addressing the following areas:

Customer Outreach

  • Current customer outreach methods
  • New customer identification tactics

Customer Retention

  • Current customer retention methods reviewed
  • Customer retention tools/strategies
  • Customer retention painpoints

KPI/Sales Measurement

  • Current customer retention methods reviewed
  • Customer retention tools/strategies
  • Customer retention painpoints QuickText Solution: Texting service to Enrich and Enable Customer Experience, One Text at a Time The team leveraged Intuit Quickbooks and Nexmo

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