Setup Online Booking in Point of Sale

When Online Booking is enabled, a unique URL will be provided for the business to offer 24/7 Online Booking for clients. Settings are available within the software to customize which clients, services, workers and hours are available for online booking.

Online Booking Page: A unique URL link for the business’ online booking page will appear here.  

Online Booking URL Unique ID: Enter a unique URL ID to incorporate your business into the online booking link.  Click Check Availability to confirm the unique URL is available for use. 

Select Online Booking Background allows you to select any color (the darker, the better) or upload any photo as your selected background photo on the online booking page.  

Online Booking Enabled will allow clients to access your online booking.

Maximum # of Availabilities sets the maximum number of appointments that could display to a client during the online booking process.

Only Display Best Available Appointments when enabled only displays availabilities online where the appointment would be at the begining of the day, end of the day, close a gap in the day or go immediately before or after another appointment. Every interval would not be offered, just the best times. 

Require Card on File to Book when enabled will require a card on file to book an appointment online.  This feature requires a Payments account to be enabled in Setup> Setup Ticket Preferences. 

Booking window starts field reflects how soon a client should be able to book an online appointment.

Booking window ends field sets how far out a client can book an appointment online. 

Allow Appt Cancellations when enabled will allow the clients to cancel appointments online.  The Required Notice field is the amount of hours or days leading up to an appointment that they are able to cancel.

Allow Appt Changes when enabled will allow the clients to change appointments online.  The Required Notice field is the amount of hours or days leading up to an appointment that they are able to change.

Send notifications for all Online Booked appointments: when enabled will email a notification that an online appointment has been booked to the emails listed in the field to the right.  To send a notification to multiple emails, simply separate the emails by a comma.  Example: sales@stxsoftware.com, info@stxsoftware.com. 

Send notifications for clients booked online with booking alerts: if enabled an email notification will be sent when a client with a "Booking Alert - Alert Only" set in the Client Card section was booked online. To send a notification to multiple emails, simply separate the emails by a comma.  Example: sales@madventures.com, info@madventures.com. 

Do Not Book Message: Text entered into this field will appear if a client has “Do Not Book” restrictions enabled on their client card.  

Automatically delete failed online deposits and purchases: Enabling will delete an initialized sale or deposit online within 5 minutes. Disabling will book the appointment with a "Pending Deposit" status and show a balance due on the client's accounts tab.

Send a notification of failed online deposits/ purchase to a specific worker by selecting one from the drop down list (workers must be created prior to selection).