A booking widget is a tool that you can use to allow your customers to make bookings with your business, whether that's via your website, social media, emails or SMS.
Please note: Legacy booking widgets are currently being deprecated.
We recommend using the new booking tools - Widgets 2.0 instead.
🧐What does popover mean?
Popover mode means that the booking tool will sit as a book now button, and when a customer clicks on it, the booking widget will appear, as shown below:
How to create a widget in popover mode
Firstly click on Booking tools and select Manage booking widgets
Click on the Create new widget button
Click on Popover mode
Name your booking widget - this name is for your labelling purposes and will not show on your booking widget
Limit to a category or a service or a service tier - use this option to create booking widgets which offer only a selected category, service, or a tier (service tier filter only available for multi-tier services)
Limit to a resource or resource groups - create booking widgets which offer only specific resources
Allow resource and group selection- tick the box to allow customers to select the resource that is bookable.
Allow customers to make multiple bookings in one transaction- tick this box if you want to give customers the option to book multiple services, or multiple appointments for the same service within one transaction.
Click Save widget.
🔎 How to get the popover code to place on your website
Once the widget is saved, you can get the popover code by selecting the below button:
You can then copy the code from the pop-up window:
If you would rather use the embed mode, then click here to learn more.
📖 Pre-filling booking widget in a popover mode
It's also possible to pass data to the widget by pre-filling selected fields. Click here to learn more.