# How to choose sales-alert message fields and test delivery

**In this guide:** Control the information included in a scheduled sales text and verify that messages can be received.

## Choose message fields

1. Open **Settings > Text Alert Settings**.
2. In **Sales summary message**, open **Options**.
3. Select up to eight values for the message.
4. Choose the information most useful to the recipient, then select **Done**.
5. Save Text Alert Settings.

## Available information may include

- Customer Count and Average Invoice
- Revenue and Income
- Cash, card, and other payments
- Discounts, Cash Expense, and Open Invoice
- Surcharge Collected, Tax Collected, and Cash in Hand

## Test delivery

1. Use **Test text delivery** when available.
2. Enter the phone number that should receive the sample.
3. Select **Send Test**.
4. Confirm the message arrives and that the values are understandable.

## If the test does not arrive

Verify the phone number, confirm the location supports text alerts, and check whether the daily test-message limit has been reached.