User guide
ALERT FREQUENCY AND ALERT RESPONDING
Zipato only send out one set of Alert Messages to your 
Contacts per incident detected. An incident is considered 
‘active’ until one of your Contacts responds to an Alert 
Message. If no Contacts respond to the Alert Messages, 
Zipato will keep the incident ‘active’ for 60 minutes before 
automatically closing the incident.
If more incidents are detected during an ‘active’ period, we 
will not send out further messages – this avoids confusion 
amongst your Contacts. However, details of new incidents 
from your alarm system, and any images received from 
your other cameras will be stored in your online account 
for later retrieval.
ALERT MESSAGES 
 SMS TEXT MESSAGE
Recommendation: Some SMS Alert messages sent 
by Zipato are sent from the same number. So that you 
recognise this number each time you receive a message 
from us, we recommend you save this number in your 
mobile phone’s address book as name ‘Zipato-Alert’ that 
way you will always know it comes from Zipato.
From: Zipato
S. John 
Livada street 11
12:24 Window Living Room
12:25 Motion Dining Room
12:25 Motion - Dining Room
To respond reply using the code 1212
 ALERT MESSAGES  TELEPHONE
Written transcript of telephone call:
This is the Zipato service.
You are a registered contact for Steve John of Livada 
street 11.
 Please enter 1 to confirm that you will respond to this 
event. Enter 2 to review the recorded events or enter 3 to 
listen to these options again.
< ‘1’ entered >
 Thank you for your acknowledgement, we have noted that 
you are responding to this event.
 ALERT MESSAGES  EMAIL
Email alert messages initiated by cameras have any 
recorded images sent as an attachment.
From: alert@zipato.com
Subject: Zipato service - Alert Message
Attached: image_1212.asf
This is the Zipato Monitoring Service. 
You are a nominated contact for: 
Steve John, Livada street 11 
The monitoring system at this location has been 
activated. The events recorded are: 
02/13/2013 12:24:15 Motion Detected Dining Room 
If you would like to respond to this message, please 
telephone xxxxxxx and enter this
Code: xxxx 
Zipato monitoring Services: www.zipato.com
RESPONSE RECEIVED MESSAGES
Response Received messages are sent out when a 
Contact responds to an Alert message. They are only sent 
to Contacts who were sent the alert message, but did not 
respond to it.
The different responses are shown here:
 SMS TEXT MESSAGE:
From: Zipato-Alert, 09/04 13:25
S. John has responded to the Alert at Livada street 11.
Contact the owner for further info
 TELEPHONE:
This is the Zipato Monitoring service. We have recently 
notified you of activation.
This message is to inform you that there has been a 
response to this event from Sebastian Popovic. To listen 
this message again, press “1” or to end the call press “2”
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