Let Students Easily Check Their Meal Card Balance

Challenge

Most post-secondary institutions allow students to use a meal card to pay for food at many places across campus. However, students can't check their balance unless they log in to a website. How can you make this process easier for students to determine how much is left on their meal cards?

We Can Help

Keep students informed of their balances
Make it easier to check balances

Here's How

By leveraging SMS shortcodes and SimplyCast 360 automation, you can provide students with an available balance on request as well as a way to text to receive a link to a directory of places that accepts meal cards.

Input Balances

Feed the current balance of the meal cards into our system via an API connection. Create a new field for this information to be stored, named %%BALANCE%%.
Set Up Your Shortcode

Create a keyword, such as MEALCARD, for your campaign. You can now set up a campaign to automatically send the %%BALANCE%% field to the student when they text in MEALCARD BALANCE.
Create a Campaign for Places that Accept Meal Cards

Set up a campaign using your MEALCARD keyword. This time, when students text MEALCARD LOCATION they will be provided with a URL that shows a list of all places that accepts meal cards.