BookingBug for Business Directories

BookingBug for Directory Sites

BookingBug is specifically designed to allow businesses to display their live availability and take bookings in multiple locations across the internet. A business can take bookings from their own website, their Facebook page and from various directory listing sites where their clients are most likely to be looking for their services.

Simple and Custom Integrations

BookingBug is quick and easy to integrate into any business directory whilst our customizable widgets are built to fit seamlessly into the profile and listing pages of that directory.

BookingBug automatically integrates into a range of specialist directory platforms and social networks, but, if you have not yet built your own directory we can give you a clear and simple guide for an integration into any platform.

Custom Search

One of BookingBug's most powerful features is the ability to deliver a custom search plugin for multiple businesses that can power a live availability and location search.

This is a great feature for any kind of directory, particularly vertical directories that work with large numbers of similar businesses. The custom search can be embedded, skinned and integrated into your site enabling customers to search for availability by service, date, time, location, travel distance or any other custom criteria required.

The results can then be shown in a list, or in a custom Google map, on your website with live embedded booking and custom Google map pins. All of this can seamlessly deep-link into your profile pages from the search results so that the user is never aware they are using an external service.

Custom Widgets and Booking Pages

Partner directories and sites can skin their own embedded BookingBug widgets but we can go a lot further. We can completely customize every step of the booking experience, building custom pages that fit with your business flow and customer experience. Contact us to find out more about our custom solutions.

For larger clients with a strong brand and extensive user base we understand that the your branding is important for your service, both for the user experience and consistency. If you are planning on using BookingBug's distribution, and all of the advantages that it brings to your users, we do allow co-branding solutions. We can ensure a clean user interface that is clear for your users and allows them to take full advantage of our distribution platform. Co-branding options allow elements of your own key branding whilst still ensuring that the client is aware that the system is being powered by BookingBug's technology.

Affiliate Program for Directories

BookingBug's affiliate program lets partner directories earn revenue in a number of ways. You can earn revenue for taking bookings from your own site, charging on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis, charging a fixed per booking fee, or even a percentage of the price of each service. BookingBug will calculate, bill, and track all exchanges for you and distribute payments accordingly.

Single Sign On

To provide a seamless customer experience BookingBug offers various tools including a single-sign-on API that allows users to transition between an existing website, and making a booking with BookingBug, without having to sign up for an additional system.

This single-sign-on works on a per business basis so that if each business is already logged in to your own site they will be automatically logged in to BookingBug. This can be integrated quickly into platforms such as Drupal, WordpressMS and SocialGO, or custom built using our API to integrate into any web platform.

It also works per customer so if your existing clients are logged in to your user platform then you can let them make bookings without having to log in to an additional system in a secure way. This method also allows you to limit bookings to your existing members.

I was planning on writing my own booking system

Writing a booking system is a long, complex and expensive process. Believe us, we know. We've spent several years building BookingBug to be simple, yet powerful, and suited for a wide range of businesses. Our advanced features range from calendar integration to complex payment options and we are constantly adding new features such as mobile versions and accessibility support - things that would be complicated in a custom system.

We can offer a wide variety of customizations and revenue shares for sites that have large numbers of customers. We can white label and custom embed much of BookingBug so it is a seamless experience for your users. You can still generate great revenue at a fraction of the time, effort or cost of writing or running your own system. Our speciality is building booking systems, so before you consider writing your own, come and talk to us about how we can help instead.

Contact Us and let us prove to you that using BookingBug is both better for you and your users.