A complete GoHighLevel CRM build — 11 production workflows covering the entire booking lifecycle.
GoHighLevel · A2P SMS · Round Robin Calendars
00 brief
A trading mentorship needed its entire funnel — lead intake, qualification, booking, no-show recovery, compliance — built into GoHighLevel from nothing, without risking carrier violations on SMS.
built for — a US 1-on-1 options-trading mentorship program (client name withheld).
“Client delivery means the details are the deliverable.”
01 the system
step 01
Compliance before contact
DND workflows fire first: phone validation, dual inbound/outbound hard-red-flag handling, channel-specific DND disable. No SMS step fires until A2P registration is confirmed.
step 02
A pipeline that mirrors the real funnel
11 stages from Lead In to Closed/Won, with off-path stages for no-shows, disqualified, long-term follow-up, and duplicates — plus 19 lifecycle tags tracking every state.
step 03
The booking lifecycle, fully scripted
Appointment-Booked runs a 7-message confirmation and reminder cadence; No-Show Nurture runs 12 messages across No-Show and Cancelled branches — all real client copy with disclaimer footers.
step 04
Ops visibility
Slack notifications on every booking, show-tracking workflows, and a numbered 5-folder structure (01-Lead Intake through 05-DND & Compliance) so the client can navigate their own system.
02 the hard parts
incident report · 01
A2P compliance with zero margin for error
One SMS sent before A2P registration confirms — or one missing risk disclaimer — risks carrier violations for a financial-adjacent business.
resolutionStaged A2P number, opt-in, privacy, and terms as custom values; risk disclaimers as merge-tag custom values inserted into every performance-referencing message. Single source of truth, never hardcoded.
incident report · 02
Matching a proven reference architecture
The build had to hold up against a battle-tested reference account running the same funnel at scale.