Online booking gets a makeover
Online bookings are an important part of your online business presence, and the booking widget is the first thing your customers see when they’re making a booking with your business.
We’ve received a lot of feedback on how we can improve the booking widget, so we’ve made some improvements which we know you’re going to like. The booking widget is used on mini-websites, in the Facebook app, as well as when you implement a Book Now button or booking widget on your website.
A polished new online booking process
Our talented Product Designer has given the online bookings widget a new lease on life, and we think it looks great! Check it out for yourself!
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Pretty awesome right! A lot of thought has gone into making online bookings more mobile friendly too, in particular with scaling to different screen sizes.
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We’ve also added some handy availability indicators to each date, showing whether there are morning or afternoon times available. If your morning is booked out, the morning square will be greyed out.
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Customisable colours
We absolutely love our Timely blue, but we realise that your business branding may have a different colour palette. So, we’ve added the ability to customise the colours of your booking widget. This means that your booking widget can blend in seamlessly with your website.
Just head to Setup > Online bookings and scroll down to Appearance to get started.
You can choose the default Timely colours, a neutral palette, or you can get creative and define your own colours.
Any changes you make will update your online booking widget – looking good!
If you’ve gone a little bit crazy with your colours, never fear! You can easily go back to the default branding if need be.
Future-proofing online bookings
Along with all this, we’ve made some technical improvements to lay the groundwork for future improvements – yippee!
While you won’t necessarily see any of this, it makes it easier for us to implement changes to the online booking process.
It's great to continue seeing the progress the Timely Team has been making, as the improvements and additional features are really great, and continue to make Timely stand out from their competition. Thanks!
Excellent update guy's loving the new mobile version makes bookings more user friendly! Keep up the great work. Highly recommendable to all Personal trainers!
Still no love for simpler class bookings? Seems timely is going all down the services route and neglecting classes? If this is intentional please let us know and we'll start dancing with the devil that is MBO :(
Hey James,
Thanks so much for your feedback - I'm afraid the classes feature in Timely is much more complex than it looks (hats off to the Techbots for making it look so simple!), but we're definitely still working on improvements around classes so keep an eye out over the next couple of months.
Did you see that we've added classes to packages now too? :-D You can find out more about that here.
Thanks again, James! We appreciate this is an important feature for you and thank you for hanging in there with us.
Thanks team for the update! Love it!
Great features but still lacking resource booking which we've been requesting for over 6 months.
I would love to use the Online Booking app with Faebook, however running a mobile grooming business, my bookings are in different areas and it would open up a can of worms with people wanting to book on a day I am not in that area. If the online booking app could become area specific I would use in a heartbeat.
Thanks for the comment Brooke! Why not suggest this as an idea on our customer feedback forum? :-D