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"content": "## Text back missed calls forwarded to your mobile with Twilio and Google Sheets\n\nThis workflow texts every caller you couldn't answer within seconds, with a daytime or after-hours message, and logs the call so you can ring back in order.\n\n### How it works\n1. Your Twilio number forwards calls to your mobile through a TwiML Bin with a short ring timeout.\n2. When the forward ends, Twilio posts `DialCallStatus` to the Webhook. The workflow replies with TwiML: a short spoken message if the call was missed, a hang-up if it was answered.\n3. Only missed calls (no-answer, busy, failed) that carry your Account SID and a real caller ID continue.\n4. A business-hours check picks the text, Twilio sends it, and a row is added to Google Sheets.\n\n### Setup\n1. Fill in **Settings**: business name, booking link, Twilio number, Account SID, opening hours. Set the workflow time zone.\n2. Connect Twilio and Google Sheets credentials, select your spreadsheet in **Log missed call**, and add a **Missed calls** tab with headers `Time | Caller | Status | Text sent | Called back?`\n3. Activate, copy the Webhook **Production URL** and create a TwiML Bin:\n```\n+1YOURMOBILE\n```\n4. Set your number's **A call comes in** to that bin. Twilio adds about 5 s to `timeout`; the total must stay below your phone's voicemail delay, or voicemail \"answers\" and nothing fires.\n5. Call from another phone, let it ring out, and check the text and new row.\n\nUS business texting needs A2P 10DLC registration or toll-free verification first.\n\n### Customization\nEdit the wording in **Daytime text** and **After-hours text**, add an owner alert after the log, or swap Google Sheets for your CRM.",
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