In the following example we'll assume that Mark Jones is a tutor who offers tutoring appointments for two different subjects, chemistry and English. Mark offers his appointment at a tutoring center and via Skype. Mark wants to invite a specific group students to book appointments with him for Chemistry tutoring only at the tutoring center. He could distribute the service's private URL but his students would see the tutoring center and Skype as the options in the location panel in the booking flow. Mark could also share the tutoring center's private URL but all other staff available at this location will appears as options in the scheduling flow. We'll create a dedicated booking site where students can book chemistry tutoring session with mark only at the tutoring Center.
We'll begin by going to Settings > Custom Booking Sites:
Once in the Custom Booking Sites page we'll click the Add New Booking Site button:
After the Add New Booking Site button is clicked we'll be taken to the Add New Booking Site screen, this screen is composed of the following fields:
- Internal Name: The internal name is how you will reference and identify the booking site while logged into the back office. This name is not displayed to your clients.
- Webhandle: This is the dedicated link that the booking site will available at. If you're in a a Business level plan you will be able to customize it.
- Locations to Show: This where you select if you'd like to show all locations for booking or just select locations on your booking site
- Staff to Show: This is where you select if you'd like to show all staff for booking or just select staff on your booking site
- Service & Classes to Show: This is where you select if you'd like to show all services & classes for booking or just select services & classes on your booking site
- Publish Booking Site: Check this checkbox if you want to allow clients to book at this link. If you're staging it and don't want to open it up for booking quite yet, uncheck this checkbox
in the example below I labeled assigned the internal name "Chemistry appointments at the tutoring center", assigned a vanity URL BUSINESS LEVEL FEATURE, selected only the tutoring location, selected Mark as the only staff in the booking site, chose to only show "Chemistry" as the only service available, and also chose to publish the booking site:
After all the criteria is selected we'll click the Save Booking Site button to be taken to the Booking Site Profile page:
At this point if a student visits the URL for this booking site they will see the availability Mike has at the tutoring center and the only service option will be "Chemistry":
The layout of the custom booking site will maintain the changes applied to the account's mini-website in the Mini Website Design section.
In the next section we'll cover how to edit the booking site and make customizations.