FlocknoteReviews of flocknote.com

How many subscribing parishes will it take for you to make texting available in Australia? :)

It is an excellent product and easy to set up and use. I use it only for texting at this point. What I like about it is that I can have multiple texting groups. I can have a group for trustees, financial committees, missions, etc. I also like that I can schedule a text and have it sent later and that people can respond back and I am the only one to see the response. What I don't like is it is limited to 160 characters. For our team, that is inconvenient. Some texts seem abrupt because of this. If sharing with the prayer chain about an urgent situation that is tragic, sometimes some background detail or appropriate words need to be stated. Multiple texts can be sent back to back, but that also seems inconvenient. There needs to be a setting to allow more characters. I also had it scheduled to send a text reminder to my church that was never sent. The system did not work. When I checked it the system said the text would be sent in 51 minutes instead of the time I indicated. It was a time-sensitive text that would have been too late in 51 minutes so I deleted it. The price is right and overall a great product. I am happy with it, but the two situations I listed are disappointments and I am wondering if I will have to change to another service.

I believe our experience has been great so far however we have one issue that we would like to see improved if possible. Our priest has 2 congregations so we set up a Flocknotes system for both of them separately. Currently to communicate his messages to his parishioners he creates a flocknote twice which seems cumbersome. Is it possible for him to do the flocknote message once and send to both parishes? There may be slightly different messages included in both, but it would save time if he could just create one flocknote, and edit it as necessary for the other parish. If this can occur I would raise my rating to a 5. Great system.

IT IS GETTING BETTER DAY BY DAY.

So far, I am on the receiving end of messages. All is well. I have not tried to initiate a message to others, as I do not have a requirement at this time. I would need to check instructions first... Thank you.

I really think this is a great way to communicate with our parishioners. I think Flocknote staff is very responsive to my emails. We have ways to grow in getting more leaders to organize their group and use Flocknote. That is one of my goals this year. Thanks for such an awesome way to communicate with our parishioners.