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Are one or more patients not getting Reminders? A Troubleshooting Guide
Are one or more patients not getting Reminders? A Troubleshooting Guide

Learn how to troubleshoot the reminder setup is patients are not receiving reminders as scheduled

Carmen Mick avatar
Written by Carmen Mick
Updated over 2 years ago


โ€‹1. First, check your overall Reminder Settings:

  • Go to Account Settings >> Donna >> Reminders

  • Take note of each Reminder's contact method - i.e. Email only, SMS only (text), Email & SMS, or Voice only

  • For example, the 21-Days Reminder below is set to Email only (meaning it's not going to send a text to patients - it only sends an email)

2. Next, for the patient in question, check the following in their Patient Profile (search their name with the magnifying glass tool in the top-right area)

  • Check if their status is Inactive or Active. If Inactive, that is the reason why they're not receiving Reminders as Inactive patients aren't contacted by Donna unless you have indicated and customized the reminder to send to inactive patients.

  • To resolve this follow the steps in this article - How to enable reminders for Inactive patients

  • Check that the patient isn't missing the necessary contact info - for the particular Reminder(s) you expected them to receive. In this example, this patient only has a cellphone number and is missing an email address - so for the 'Email only' Reminders that you have, this patient won't receive them

  • Check Reminder setup & contact method - Check if the patient has their reminders disabled - Single touchpoint, multiple, or All - in their profile setup


If all of the above is correctly set up, please contact the Customer Success team for further troubleshooting.

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