The PhotoBiz Scheduler allows your customers to book their appointments with you through your website. PhotoBiz Scheduler supports both free and paid sessions for booking appointments through your website for recurring dates and also limited dates and mini sessions. The Scheduler allows you to set up services starting at 15 minutes and increasing by 15 additional minutes all the way up to 1440 minutes (24 hours). This guide will walk you through the steps of setting up a new service for your scheduler.
STEP ONE
Log into your PhotoBiz account and click on the SCHEDULER tab in the left side menu.
The Scheduler control panel will allow you to create a new service for your scheduler.
STEP TWO
Click on SERVICES at the top of your Scheduler control panel.
STEP THREE
Click on NEW to add a new service and choose the service type.
You can choose between RECURRING or CUSTOM DATES for your scheduler service type. You can also categorize your services in this section if you have multiple services that you're offering.
Service Type
- Recurring - Use for ongoing services that you provide on a regular basis. Eg. Consultations
- Custom Dates - Use for services that will be available for a limited time. You can select specific dates and times. Eg. Mini-Sessions
STEP FOUR
Configure your new scheduler service.
This includes the following:
- NAME: Name of your service
- DESCRIPTION: Description of your service
- SERVICE DURATION: Set the length of your appointments. The scheduler system does its best to maximize the amount of appointments you can get in a given day. If you set your service duration for 30 minutes and your day starts at 8am. Your services would display at 8:00am, 8:30am, 9:00am, etc. until your hours of operation stop.
- PRICE: Price of your service
- CHARGE TAX: Charge sales tax on your service
- ACTIVE: Active status for your service
Once you've configured your options here, click on the CREATE button at the bottom to activate your service in your Scheduler. The next screen will also allow you to add more details, email automation, and more to your service.
STEP FIVE
Configure additional service options.
This section will allow you to add a graphic to your service as well as configure the details for your service. Here's a breakdown of what each section can do for you.
- DETAILS - this allows you to make changes to the options you configured in step 4 (Name, Description, Price, Service Duration, Price, Tax, and Active Status)
- IMAGE - this allows you to add a graphic to appear with your service on your website.
- OPTIONS - this allows you to create optional add-ons to your service, including charges for additional services.
- AVAILABILITY - this allows you to override your global availability settings and limit the times for a particular service to specific days and times of the week. For more details on this, check out our guide on creating a limited schedule.
- INSTRUCTIONS - this allows you to provide special instructions or request additional information from your customers prior to booking their appointment.
- THANK YOU - this allows you to add additional email addresses for notifications for booking of this service as well as add a custom "thank you" message that is sent to clients after they've booked their appointment.
- EMAIL AUTOMATION - this allows you to activate the email automation feature on your service.
- SEO & SEARCH - this allows you to tag your services to improve your site search as well as add any meta title, meta description, or meta keywords you wish to use for search engine optimization.
Once you've made your changes to this section, simply click on the SAVE CHANGES button at the bottom to apply them to your scheduler service and make them live.
Once you've created your scheduler services, you'll be able to offer online booking for your clients through your PhotoBiz website.
Once you've created your scheduler services, you'll be able to offer online booking for your clients through your PhotoBiz website.
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