SimplyBook.Me: Making Appointments With Your Hair Dresser Online
SimplyBook.Me is a free online service which allows your customers to create appointments with your business. How many times have you gone to a hair salon only to find out they’re booked for the day? Making an appointment via the phone isn’t the best thing ever either; there might be some overlapping with other clients they forgot about.
Creating a schedule online would be so much better and much more practical – your customers would pick an empty spot in the calendar and reserve it; at the end of the day, you’d have a nice overview of all the booking for the next day or the entire week.
Book Me!
It’s really easy to start with online scheduling – sign up for an account at SimplyBook.Me and you’ll get a sub-site with a memorable URL: http://simplybook.me/your-business-name. You can now either promote this link to your customers or you could place a Book now button on your existing website.
At first, SimplyBook.Me really seems as a simple application, however, numerous plug-ins and modules will add some features you might need: image galleries, online payments, service categorizing, additional booking fields, order status etc. Whether you’re a hair salon, a dentist or a car mechanic, SimplyBook.Me will make it easy for you and your customers to make an appointment.
Social Appointments
If your business has a Facebook fan page, you can use SimplyBook’s booking module on your page as well; no need to hire a developer to produce it for you. That way your customers can make an appointment with your business even on Facebook. Once the appointment is made, your customers can tell their Facebook friends about it, making you more visible to their social graph.
If you hate being late to an appointment or you just want to get notified about one, SimplyBook.Me will text you and send email notifications as well so you don’t forget about your appointment. However, if you’re a real notification junkie, you’ll want to syncronize SimplyBook.Me with your Google Calendar – which is one of the newest additions to the system.
Whether you’re on your own in your business or you have some people helping you, keeping track of all the appointments can be hard and time consuming. If you’re a car mechanic answering the phone all day long, how many cars can you fix? How much money can you make then? Try out SimplyBook.Me and focus on the work, let the customers make their own schedule.
