Services & Trades

Do you provide a service or a trade? Whether you're a photographer, dj, driving instructor or a mechanic, BookingBug can adapt to your business. Create packages for multiple services, incorporate travel time between appointments, or use the request widget. With BookingBug you can also set custom questions for your customers and attach a cost to each question, allowing you to move an up-sell to the checkout process.

Features for Services and Trades

Your calendar of availability on your website

Have a look at the widget below to see what your BookingBug booking calendar might look like as a Services and Trades business. This mobile DJ runs day based services but if you're a computer repair man who takes bookings on the hour or a photographer who runs courses, BookingBug can work for you as well. The number and type of classes and courses depend on your business, and you can add as many or as few as you need. You can customize the size, colours and style with our 'Smart Widget' page under 'Publish' once you sign up.

A simple way to manage your business

With BookingBug's intuitive and powerful calendar interface it is easy to manage everything from your own time for a single service, all the way up to multiple staff with multiple services at multiple locations. Our calendar is friendly and straight forward allowing you to see all of your upcoming appointments and business in whatever way works best for you.

Our calendars support your brand

With BookingBug's "smart widget" panels you can customize your calendar widget to look any way you want. Select size, color, default display, anything. You can also define custom CSS to make sure your BookingBug calendar looks like a seamless part of your site.

Collect money without hassle

It's easy to take payments with BookingBug. With a variety of payment systems including Paypal, Google Checkout, SagePay, WorldPay and others, allowing your customer to pay you online is simple. Online payments are a key part of helping your business. They cut down on no-shows, allow your customers more options when it is time to pay you and ensure an accurate record of who uses your service.

Merchant accounts are for slightly larger businesses or when you reach a certain amount of transactions per month. Integrating your merchant account with BookingBug is simple and it benefits both you and your customer. As a business you will likely pay less of a transaction fee to the processor and your customers will have a smoother payment journey.

Stay connected

For just 10c/p a message you can get SMS alerts when someone books your time. You can also have reminders sent to your clients 24 hours before their appointments. If you have multiple staff you can also customize SMS per staff member.

Have a great relationship with your customers

BookingBug allows you to customize any of the emails generated as part of the booking, reservation or enquiry process including cancellation, editing, amending and moving. Our email tool allows you to set up dynamic messages for all of your business's needs.

BookingBug helps keep everything in sync

Already using a calendar program to manage your time? Wouldn't it be great if you could sync it with BookingBug and vice-versa? Good news. You can. To mark time as busy in your BookingBug calendar just paste your iCal link from your existing calendar into BookingBug. Similarly you can add BookingBug's iCal link to your own calendar to show all of your bookings.

Sometimes you only need a call to action

Customisable "Book Now" and "Enquire Now" are available in case a site will not allow you to embed your calendar. Available under the 'Publish' menu you can adjust the colour size and type to fit your needs.

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