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📢 Automate Your Payment Collections with SMSLeopard Payment Reminders for Google Sheets

May 14, 2025

written by Eston Kimani

Payment Collections Solved

If you’re manually reminding clients to pay rent, loans, school fees, or subscriptions every month—it’s time for a better way.

At SMSLeopard, we understand that missed payments hurt cashflows, and chasing people down every cycle takes time and energy most business owners don’t have. That’s why we’ve launched a powerful new feature:

🎉 SMSLeopard Payment Reminders – now fully integrated with Google Sheets.


🧠 The Problem: Late Payments and Manual Admin

For landlords, SACCO officers, school bursars, and small business owners, recurring payments are your lifeblood. But the process of collecting them is often messy and time-consuming:

  • Creating spreadsheets every month

  • Uploading client data again and again

  • Sending reminders manually

  • Following up late payments individually

If you forget once, clients forget too. That means:

  • Cashflow delays

  • Increased stress

  • Less time for actual business growth


✅ The Solution: Payment Reminders That Run on Autopilot

SMSLeopard Payment Reminders is a smart, no-code tool built on Google Sheets that automates this entire process.

Here’s what it does:

  • 🔁 Sends SMS reminders automatically before, on, and after due dates

  • 🧾 Tracks payment status and reminder delivery

  • 🗓️ Generates monthly reports showing due, paid, and overdue obligations

  • 🛑 Stops reminders once payment is logged

  • 🧑‍💻 Requires no technical skills—just Google Sheets + your SMSLeopard account


💡 Real Example: Loan Collection Made Easy

Let’s say Sam takes out a loan from your SACCO. He must pay KES 10,000 on the 3rd of every month for 12 months.

With SMSLeopard Payment Reminders, you only do this once:

  1. Enter Sam’s details in the sheet:

    | Obligation ID | Name | Phone | Amount | Frequency | First Due Date | Payments |

    |—————|———––|–––––––|––––|———–|––––––––|–––––|

    | LN-001 | Sam Otieno | 0712345678 | 10,000 | Monthly | 3 June 2025 | 12 |

  2. Set your reminder rules:

  • Reminder 3 days before due date

  • Reminder on the due date

  • Reminders every 3 days if unpaid (up to 5 times)

  • Final notice if still unpaid

  1. Every month, the system:

  • Sends scheduled SMS automatically

  • Logs delivery status (Delivered / Pending / Failed)

  • Stops reminders once you log Sam’s payment

No uploads. No monthly tracking. No manual chasing. Just consistent collections.


⚙️ How to Get Started

Getting started is simple:

  1. Create a free account at smsleopard.com

  2. 📄 Navigate to the Payment Reminders section

  3. 📤 Copy the ready-made Google Sheet template

  4. 🔧 Enter your settings, add your obligations, and click start

  5. 📲 SMS reminders will send automatically—no uploads needed


📊 Who Is It For?

  • 🏠 Landlords & Property Managers

  • 💰 SACCOs & Loan Officers

  • 🏫 Schools & Learning Institutions

  • 💼 Subscription Businesses

  • 🤝 Chamas & Community Groups

  • 📋 Anyone managing recurring payment obligations


🚀 Start Automating Your Payment Reminders Today

Stop chasing payments manually. Let the system do the work.

Improve your cashflows, reduce stress, and stay in control—every cycle.