The Zibster Scheduler allows your customers to book their appointments with you through your website. It supports both free and paid sessions for booking appointments on recurring dates, limited dates, and more. The Scheduler lets you set up services starting at 15 minutes and increasing by 15-minute intervals, all the way up to 1440 minutes (24 hours). This guide will walk you through the steps of setting up a new service for your scheduler.
STEP ONE
Accessing the Scheduler
Log into your Zibster account and click on the SCHEDULER tab in the left side menu. The Scheduler control panel will allow you to create a new service for your scheduler.
STEP TWO
Navigating to Services
Click on SERVICES at the top of your Scheduler control panel.
STEP THREE
Adding a New Service
Click on NEW to add a new service and choose the service type. You can choose between RECURRING or CUSTOM DATES for your scheduler service type. You can also categorize your services in this section if you offer multiple services.
Service Type:
- Recurring: Use for ongoing services that you provide on a regular basis, e.g., Consultations.
- Custom Dates: Use for services available for a limited time. You can select specific dates and times, e.g., Mini-Sessions.
STEP FOUR
Configuring Your New Scheduler Service
This includes the following:
- NAME: Name of your service.
- DESCRIPTION: Description of your service.
- SERVICE DURATION: Set the length of your appointments. The scheduler system maximizes the number of appointments you can get in a given day. For example, if you set your service duration for 30 minutes and your day starts at 8 am, your services would display at 8:00 am, 8:30 am, 9:00 am, etc., until your hours of operation stop.
- PRICE: Price of your service.
- CHARGE TAX: Charge sales tax on your service.
- ACTIVE: Active status for your service.
Once you've configured your options here, click on the CREATE button at the bottom to activate your service in your Scheduler. The next screen will also allow you to add more details, email automation, and more to your service.
STEP FIVE
Configuring Additional Service Options
This section allows you to add a graphic to your service and configure the details for your service. Here's a breakdown of what each section can do for you:
- DETAILS: Make changes to the options you configured in Step Four (Name, Description, Price, Service Duration, Tax, and Active Status).
- IMAGE: Add a graphic to appear with your service on your website.
- OPTIONS: Create optional add-ons to your service, including charges for additional services.
- AVAILABILITY: Override your global availability settings and limit the times for a particular service to specific days and times of the week. For more details, check out our guide on creating a limited schedule.
- INSTRUCTIONS: Provide special instructions or request additional information from your customers prior to booking their appointment.
- THANK YOU: Add additional email addresses for notifications of bookings and a custom "thank you" message that is sent to clients after they've booked their appointment.
- EMAIL AUTOMATION: Activate the email automation feature on your service.
- SEO & SEARCH: Tag your services to improve your site search and add any meta title, meta description, or meta keywords you wish to use for search engine optimization.
Once you've made your changes to this section, simply click on the SAVE CHANGES button at the bottom to apply them to your scheduler service and make them live.
With your scheduler services created, you'll be able to offer online booking for your clients through your Zibster website.
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