# SSTI Hippo Rental Reminder

SSTI server is able to notify your tenants when their rental is about to expire (or has already expired).

This can be done by using the **EXPIRE REMINDER** option in SSTI config notecard.

## Usage

The option format is the following:

```
EXPIRE REMINDER = rental-days-left|message-to-send
```

where:

* *rental-days-left* is the number of rental days remaining
* *message-to-send* is the message to send

You can set as much reminders as you need, each on a separate line.

### Variables

*message-to-send* can contain special variables which will be replaced with actual values:

*  %DAYS% - the number of days remaining
*  %SLURL% - the SLUrl of the box (to allow quick teleports for customer)
*  %TENANT% - full tenant name (e.g. "Glaznah Gassner" or "Tenant Resident")
*  %TENANT_FNAME% - tenant's first name (e.g. "Glaznah" or "Tenant")

### Days in arrears

To send reminders to tenants in arrears, set the number of days to a **negative** number . Example:

```
EXPIRE REMINDER = -1|You are 1 day arrears your rental!
```

### Multi-line IMs

To send a multi-line Instant Message use this character: ¶

```
EXPIRE REMINDER = 1|This is a first line of the IM.¶ This is a second line.
```

## Delivery

The reminder message is being delivered directly from the bot managing your group.

IMPORTANT: The reminders are being checked **once a hour**. So, if the tenants time changes to 1 day remaining, he will get a reminder within next 60 minutes.

## Testing your reminders

You may want to test the reminders with your alt. There are several ways to do this:


1. Setup the 6th-day reminder and then rent a box with your alt. The hover text will display "Remaining: 6 days" and you'll get a notification within a hour.
2. Setup a 1-day reminder, then rent a box with your alt.

   
   1. touch the Hippo box with the owner of the box's avatar,
   2. click "Edit", then "Length" from the menu
   3. set the remaining time to 1 day
   4. You will also get a notification within 60 minutes.
3. By touching your SSTI server and clicking on the "Test remndr" button:

   ![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/smartbots-docs/uploads/20adbcf8-a916-46eb-b77b-ad6944665550/f4536a61-7ae2-4418-88d4-f685b62c47c7/SSTI_reminder_test.png?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=DO801JV4MUMY3YAEJCWC%2F20261113%2Fnyc3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261113T140000Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-Signature=44512686995b6d0d63c0211fdc3702b92a1e183f245682036e8984bcfcd8de97&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject " =300x215")