Waiting is a universal problem. Wherever you are, it is painful to have to wait for your turn at a restaurant, barber shop, store, or other business. And businesses suffer from lower customer satisfaction and lost revenues when wait experiences are not managed well.
That is why we are happy to announce that Waitlist Me is now available in over 60 countries! Check out our international plans page to see if it is live in your country.
One of the challenges in offering the service globally is that prices to send SMS text messages in other countries are generally higher than in the US and Canada. The prices also vary considerably from country to country, and often even by mobile carrier within a country. We have addressed this by having a flexible system for charging for text messages separately, with pricing for these texts depending on the country. There is also more control in the Waitlist Me app over when to send confirmation and notification texts, so businesses don’t waste money sending a text that isn’t needed. Since texts are not included in monthly subscription prices, we have lowered the price for Premium to $10 and Pro to $20 for international plans, and removed the 100 party limit on the Basic free level of features.
In terms of localization, all the customer facing parts of the Waitlist Me service have been translated into 30 languages, so businesses can send out texts and display their public waitlist pages in local languages with even our basic service. With Premium and Pro they can customize the messaging even more for these and other features. The Waitlist Me app that businesses use is still in English, but we’ll be fully localizing this in more languages over time. The nice thing though about the Waitlist Me service is that the core processes of adding, notifying, and checking people off the list are very simple, and don’t require a lot of reading or knowledge of English.