Ask everyone
at once.
Know who's in
Send offers, questions and updates to your people by app and email. Their answers come back sorted.
Coventry, Friday 07:10
For anyone with a pool of people to keep in step: staffing agencies and their candidates, contractors and their trades, event organisers, clubs, property firms and field teams.
How it works
One Friday morning, start to finish.
An example: on Friday morning a client needs five bricklayers in Coventry for Monday. The offer goes to 80 people at 07:10, answers arrive from 07:16, five places are filled by 08:32 and all five are booked at 09:05.
- Choose Shift offer
- Pick who it goes to
- Send to 80 contacts
- Answers arrive
- Places filled
- Booked
Brickwise
Shift offer
Bricklayer, Coventry CV1
Monday 12 October, 07:30 · £22 an hour
KO
MN
TB
AR
CR- Sent
- 80
- Opened
- 52
- Answered
- 34
- 07:16Kieran O'NeillSuitable
- 07:21Dev PatelNo CSCS cardNot suitable
- 07:34Marta NowakSuitable
- 07:48Lee AshworthFree Monday to WednesdaySome days
- 07:59Tom BarkerSuitable
- 08:17Aisha RahmanSuitable
- 08:32Callum ReidSuitable
Answers appear here the moment people reply.
All five places filled at 08:32. The offer closed itself and told the other 47 who opened it.
All five booked at 09:05, with the site address. Three who were suitable but too late are saved as reserves.
You know the cost before you send.
Announcemate works out the most an offer could cost and holds that many credits when you send. When it closes you pay for what actually went out, and the rest comes straight back.
£2.48for the whole morning on the Standard plan, plus VAT.
- 80 messages
- 80
- 121 questions shown
- 121
- 47 “places filled” notices
- 47
- Emails and app notifications
- 0
- Held when you sent
- 395 credits
- Used
- 248 credits
- Back to you
- 147 credits
Seven ways to ask.
Every campaign is written for a phone first: a clear title, one short line, and a link to an answer page in your colours. This is how they arrive.
Shift or job offer
Places that fill themselves.
Set how many places there are. The offer closes when they're taken and tells everyone else.
Bricklayer, Coventry CV1nowBrickwiseMonday 07:30, £22 an hour. Five places. Are you in?Questionnaire
Questions that branch.
Each answer can lead somewhere different, and every path ends in an outcome you can act on.
HGV Class 1 drivers, Daventry2m agoMidlands LabourFour quick questions to see if this one suits you.Quick poll
One question, answered fast.
Perfect for Friday afternoons. Send it once and set it to repeat every week.
Which days can you work next week?Fri 16:00Midlands LabourTap the days you're free. It takes ten seconds.Announcement
Say it once, to everyone.
News, changes and reminders, with photos or a PDF attached.
Site closed on Friday09:15BrickwiseThe Coventry site is shut for the crane lift. Monday's start is unchanged.Event RSVP
Who's coming, and how many.
Numbers update as people answer, and a reminder goes out before the day.
Christmas party, Friday 11 DecemberTueHarbour HospitalityWill you be there? Bring a plus one if you like.Read and confirm
Know who has read it.
A briefing or a policy with an “I've read and understood this” button. Anyone who hasn't gets a reminder.
Updated site safety briefingMonBrickwisePlease read it and confirm before your next shift.Request
Photos and documents, collected.
Ask for a photo of a card, a certificate or a signed form. It arrives with their answer.
Photo of your CSCS card, pleaseSunMidlands LabourWe need it before Monday's start. It takes a minute from your phone.Every one of them goes to the app first, and by email to anyone who isn't on it yet.
Questions that do the sorting.
Each answer can send someone down a different path, and every path ends in an outcome. By the time you open the results, people are already sorted: suitable, not suitable, or worth a call.
Question 1 of 4
Do you hold a valid HGV Class 1 (C+E) licence?
Answer page by Announcemate
HGV driver screening
4 questions, 4 outcomes
- Q1
Do you hold a valid HGV Class 1 (C+E) licence?
Yes or no
If “No”Not suitable - Q2
Which dates can you work?
Tick all that apply
If “None of these”Unavailable - Q3
How many points are on your licence?
Pick one
If “7 or more”Refer to consultant - Q4
Anything else we should know?
Written answer, optional
OtherwiseSuitable
- Start from a ready-made questionnaire, or draw your own in the designer.
- The map shows every branch, and nothing sends until every path has an ending.
- Answer pages carry your logo and colours, and work on any phone without the app.
Inbox
- Brickwise07:10Bricklayer, Coventry CV1Closes Mon 06:00
- Midlands LabourThuWhich days can you work next week?Answered
- Harbour HospitalityTueChristmas party, Friday 11 DecemberGoing, plus one
- BrickwiseMonUpdated site safety briefingConfirmed
The app
Leave texts behind.
Texts cost you every time, and they can't carry a question. Your people get the free Announcemate app instead. A notification costs nothing on top of the message, and if it isn't opened, email follows automatically.
- One inbox for everyone they hear from
- Each organisation keeps its own name and colours.
- They decide who reaches them
- Anyone can mute or block an organisation, and no organisation sees who else they hear from.
- Quiet hours
- Nothing buzzes in the middle of the night.
- Works on a building site
- Answers wait on the phone and send when the signal comes back.
Everything around the message.
- Live results
- Counts, answers and outcomes appear the moment people respond. Export them whenever you like.
- Shared inbox
- Replies land in one place, with whoever sent the campaign. Saved replies make answering quick.
- Groups and smart groups
- Groups you keep by hand, and smart groups that update themselves from answers and activity.
- Sign-up forms
- A link and a printable QR poster, so people can join your list themselves. Each sign-up is confirmed by email.
- Reminders and repeats
- Nudge anyone who hasn't answered, and send the same poll every Friday at four.
- Analytics
- Response rates, the best time to send, how quickly your team replies and where the credits went.
- Templates
- Save a campaign that worked and send it again next month, with the dates moved on.
- Team and roles
- Owners, admins, editors, inbox agents and viewers. Keep a campaign private or share it with the team.
- AI help, if you want it
- Draft a questionnaire from a sentence, tidy your wording, or sum up a pile of written answers.
- API and webhooks
- Add contacts and send campaigns from your own systems, and hear about answers as they happen.
- Privacy built in
- Consent records, retention you choose, exports and deletion, and a data processing agreement to download.
- Stored in London
- Your data lives in Google Cloud's London region. Two-step sign-in, and you can require it for the whole team.
Pricing
Pay for what you send.
No subscription and no charge per seat. Buy credits when you need them and they last 12 months. A credit costs 1p, or less in bigger packs.
What things cost
- A message, by app or email
- 1 credit
- Each question someone sees
- 1 credit
- Reminders and inbox replies
- 1 credit each
- AI help
- 2 credits a go
- Files people send you
- 50 credits per 100 MB
- Test sends to yourself
- Free, 25 a day
- Failed sends and replies to you
- Free
Credit packs
- 1,000Starter, 1p a credit£10
- 5,000Regular, 0.95p a credit£47.50
- 20,000Busy, 0.9p a credit£180
- 100,000High volume, 0.85p a credit£850
Or buy any amount from 500 credits. Prices exclude VAT. Top up automatically when you run low, if you like.
Sending a lot, or rather pay by invoice? We set up invoiced accounts and custom rates for larger organisations. Email info@announcemate.co.uk
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