Online booking is a great way to make your website work hard for you. An online booking system can increase your bookings while at the same time reduce your call volumes so you can spend more time providing your services. There are some 3rd party online booking tools our clients use for online booking and these online booking systems can plug straight into your Rocketspark website, please note that when using third-party integrations there may be costs associated with their services.
Booking for appointments for services
Timely is an easy to use and effective tool for online booking of appointments. Check out our guide for plugging a timely booking button into your website.
Other online booking options
There are a wide range of online booking tools available for services, accommodation, events, activities and restaurants.
Most systems will provide you with a little bit of HTML code which you can copy and paste into your website. If you do a google search for “how to plug {insert name of booking system here} into a website” you will likely find a user guide for that system.
You can then use our guide for plugging in booking widgets into your website.
A great place to check out nice booking systems is the Xero Addon Marketplace. Browse the marketplace by industry and see the ratings of the various systems.
Online enquiry forms
Another low cost / no cost approach to consider is using an online form builder like Wufoo, Jotform or Typeform to create an enquiry form but not actually make it a booking form.
An enquiry form can be an efficient way to collect customer requirements and then contact them with options.
Selling events as a product in your shop
One last approach to consider is to have your packages as 'products' in a Rocketspark shop on your site so that people book and pay. With this approach people don't have online booking as such but you are selling your service online and making it easy to buy. A Rocketspark website includes 10 products in our basic plan so you can add a shop for no extra cost.
This online shop solution is best suited for selling tickets to one off or occasional events. You can set a stock level so that tickets are not oversold. For regular events, services and activities we’d recommend a 3rd party booking system as described above. It will save you lots of time if you get the right system in place.