Key Takeaways
- A food-pantry slot list is households who booked that window at that site — not everyone who ever liked the agency page.
- “Door open for your slot” is a second purpose. Do not reuse the waitlist blast.
- Free is 1 device, 300 SMS lifetime, and 300 contacts. Developer is 25,000 SMS per year. Platform price is devices plus send volume.
- Client-app OTP stays off the site SIM.
- Idempotency is slot-id plus household-id — no-shows re-queue the next household.
Summary
Scenario 1571 is marketplace contact lists for food-pantry appointment slots — not library holds, not tool-library sheds, not CSA pickup, not community gardens. Waitlist is a queue. Door-open for that slot is the join. Service pricing is devices plus SMS send volume. You bring the phones and operator credit. Free is 1 device, 300 SMS lifetime, and 300 contacts.
Starter allows 2 devices: site dual-SIM plus a spare. Uncapped platform volume is not unlimited carrier SMS. Confirm payloads in Developer Center.
booked · door · SMS
slot + household — no-show re-queues once
A pantry slot is not a donor dump
Door copy names the window and site. Donor drives live elsewhere. Mixing them is how a household STOPs the week the only slot they booked is actually calling cars.
If comms fires “your slot” when staff opens the warehouse, the household thinks the line is moving. Join door-open. Suppress warehouse-to-client templates.
Pantry-slot list matrix
| Event | SMS | Failure |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse open | None or queue move | “Come now” before the slot |
| Door-open | Site + window | Donor stuffed in |
| No-show | Once, then next household | Two door texts to the same card |
| Client OTP | Auth pool | OTP on the site radio |
Door-open vs waitlist
Persist slot-id plus household-id. DLR. MCP wraps REST only.
Category and STOP
The SMS is that slot. A newsletter is marketing. FTC business guidance is not a reason to hide window hours behind a donor pitch.
Devices, volume, and airtime
Saturday distributions spike. We meter devices and platform sends. Free (1/300/300) is one site proof.
Site operations
Charge the desk chassis before first slot. Setup, Downloads, pricing.
Decision guide
Ship when notice joins door-open. Delay if warehouse texts “come now.” Not a CodeCanyon pantry pack.
Slot checklist
- Slot plus household idempotency.
- Warehouse silent as door.
- Donor off door purpose.
- OTP off site SIM.
- Developer Center fields confirmed.
Next steps
Scenario 1511 library, scenario 1451 tool library.
Related product pages
Jump to the live product docs for this topic—not another long-form article.
- contacts, lists, and segmentsAudience hygiene
- bulk SMS from Excel and CSVSpreadsheet campaigns
- bulk SMS with consent best practicesHigh-volume outreach
- SMS API documentationLive endpoint reference
