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Text reminders from your own phone (optional upgrade)
Email reminders already go out for every booking. If you also want texts from your own number, your Claude can send them. Here's exactly what it takes, what it costs your Claude plan, and what happens when your computer is off.
About 10 minutes.
Know what it needs first
Today this works on a Mac with the Messages app signed in to your phone number and the Claude desktop app open. The Mac has to be on and awake from 9 AM to 8 PM. An iPhone or Android phone alone can't send them yet, because Claude on a phone can't run a task every few minutes. If that's not you, keep email reminders. They already go out for every booking.
Turn on texts on your account
Open your account, find Confirmations and reminders, tick Upgrade: texts from your own phone and tap Save reminders. Or just tell your Claude: "Turn on reminder texts from my number."
Connect Claude to Let's Sit Down
On Connect your Claude, make your key and add Let's Sit Down as a connector in the Claude desktop app (the steps are on that page). If Claude asks for a key, it pops up a box for it. Never paste it in the chat.
Make the scheduled task
In the Claude desktop app, open Scheduled and tap New task. Name it Sit Down texts, pick the Haiku model (the cheapest), set it to repeat every 15 minutes (see the plan note below), and paste the instructions from the Texts from your own number card. Save it.
Keep your Mac awake
In System Settings, open Battery (or Energy) and turn on Prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off while plugged in. Leave Claude open. You can lock the screen.
Check it's working
Book a test with yourself and tick Text me reminders. Within one check you get the confirmation text from your own number, and the card on your account says connected, last sent. Replies come straight to your Messages.
- How much of my Claude plan does it use? Each check is a small Haiku task. From 9 AM to 8 PM that's 66 checks a day every 10 minutes, 44 every 15, or 22 every 30. Claude doesn't publish exact plan limits, so we can't give you a precise percentage. On Pro, start at every 15 or 30 minutes and watch your usage in Claude's settings for a few days. On Max, every 10 minutes is fine.
- Will it text people at night? No. Texts only go between 9 AM and 8 PM in the guest's own time zone (Sundays from noon). A reminder that can't go out in time is skipped.
- What if my Mac is off or asleep? The email confirmations and reminders still go out. Texts nobody picks up in time are skipped. They're never sent late and never twice.
- What if I'm traveling? Texts only go while that Mac is on and awake. Email covers you the rest of the time.
- Who gets texts? Only guests who tick "Text me reminders" when they book. Anyone who replies STOP never gets another one from you.
- How does STOP work? If someone replies STOP to your number, your Claude marks it with record_stop and they get no more texts from you.
- Does it cost anything on Let's Sit Down? No. It's included. The texts are regular messages from your own phone plan.
- Can my assistant send them? Yes, if the Claude on their Mac is connected to your account and texts from the number you want guests to see. Most people use their own.
- Does it work with Android or Google Voice? Not reliably yet. Your Claude needs a texting app it can use on a computer all day. Keep email for now. A one-tap "send from my phone" option for any phone is coming.
- Can I change the words? Yes. Tell your Claude, or edit the opening lines on your account. The join link is always added.
- Is my guests' info private? Your Claude only gets the texts that are due for your own bookings: the name, the mobile and the words. Nothing goes to anyone else.
- How do I turn it off? Untick it on your account, or tell your Claude "turn off my reminder texts". Anything waiting is dropped and email carries on.
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