Advanced Booking Page Settings: A Complete Guide to Configuring Your Page

Configuring your Advanced Booking Page settings is key to creating a seamless and efficient experience for both you, your customers and prospects. If you're not familiar with what an Advanced Booking Page is or how it can benefit you, don't worry! We’ve got you covered. Check out this article for an overview of the different type of Advanced Booking Page and how it can transform your booking process.

Once you're up to speed, this guide will walk you through the necessary steps to configure your page settings and ensure everything runs smoothly. Let’s dive in!

To begin, head over to Advanced Booking Pages

Next, choose the Advanced Booking Page you’d like to configure by clicking the eye icon next to it

Then, click Settings

On this page, you'll find all the configurable settings for your Advanced Booking Page

Under General Options, you can configure various settings, including booking time intervals, minimum time between bookings, team size, prospect support, customer portal invitations (only visible on Live Pricing and Real-Time Booking Pages).

Additionally, you can enable web confirmation emails, as well as set the base service price, base service time, minimum service price, minimum service time, and layout preferences.

Read more: Know About Settings for your Booking Pages

The booking summary on the right-hand side provides your customers with a detailed overview of their booking as they fill out your Live Pricing and Real-Time Booking Page. It includes the total cost, taxes, grand total, and total duration. Each of these components can be customized to either display or hide, depending on your preferences. This section is only visible on Live Pricing and Real-Time Booking Page. To explore the different types of Advanced Booking Pages and find the right fit for your service, click here.

Read: How do I customize the right-side booking summary?

The confirmation summary will appear on the right-hand side of the booking confirmation page once your customer has successfully filled out your Live Pricing and Real-Time Booking Page. It provides a breakdown of the total cost, taxes, and grand total. Each of these components can be customized to either display or hide, depending on your preferences. This section is only visible on Live Pricing and Real-Time Booking Page. To explore the different types of Advanced Booking Pages and find the right fit for your service, click here.

On this page, you can choose whether to use operating hours, control whether bookings can extend past your operating hours, and define the earliest booking allowed to ensure customers can only book within acceptable time frames.

Additionally, the page allows you to fine-tune your real-time availability settings, which include adjusting the availability strategy and dispatching strategy. It allows you to control how bookings are assigned and dispatched to service providers in real-time, ensuring that appointments are allocated efficiently based on availability and preferences.

Step by Step Instructions: How do I set up real-time availabilities for my booking page?

For dispatching, read: How do I configure auto-dispatching for a booking page?

Here, you can manage your notification settings to ensure clear communication with customers.

Under the Booking Page Cancel and Reschedule Settings section, you can specify whether to allow customers to reschedule their bookings and set the cutoff time for rescheduling prior to the appointment. Likewise, you can decide if cancellations will be permitted and establish the latest time customers can cancel their bookings before the scheduled appointment.

Additionally, you can configure your reminder settings to customize how booking reminders are sent to customers.

This section lets you configure your Pre-Authorization and/or Charge Now settings. Please note that MioPay is only available if you have a connected Stripe account. To learn how to connect a Stripe account, click here.

With Pre-Authorization, you can decide how much money should be automatically reserved on the customer’s credit card when a booking is made. This allows you to secure funds in advance without charging the customer until the service is completed. Similarly, under Charge Now settings, you can specify how much should be charged immediately when a booking is confirmed.

For both options, you have the flexibility to choose from several options: the full amount, a fixed amount, or a percentage.

Read: Stripe Payment Options: Pre-Authorized or ChargeNow web-booking settings

Under the Confirmation Page settings, you can control what happens after a customer or prospect successfully completes an Advanced Booking Page—whether it's a Live Pricing & Real-Time Booking Page, an Interactive Quoting Page, or a Service Request Page. Check out this article for an overview of the different type of Advanced Booking Page and how it can transform your booking process.

You can choose whether or not to redirect the customer or prospect to a different page instead of the default confirmation page. If you enable redirection, you can specify the URL where the customer or prospect will be directed.

The Live Pricing Buy Button is a versatile plugin that seamlessly integrates with any website. To learn more about the Live Pricing Buy Button settings, click here. Ready to make a purchase? Get the Live Pricing Buy here!

Here, you can customize the Live Pricing Buy Button settings, including the group, description, and an image that customers will see while browsing your service directly through the button.

Use these settings to restrict availability to the areas you serve, providing a more tailored experience for your customers or prospects while saving you time. To learn more on how to restrict your Advanced Booking Page to a specific service area, click here.

In this section, you can add the tax rate you would like to apply on this specific Advanced Booking Page. If you want to add a new tax code to an Advanced Booking Page. You need to first add that tax code under main settings/taxes. Here is a detailed article and a video on how to add a new tax code.

Read - Learn how to add & modify new tax codes to your company. Add and display them on the booking pages.

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