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This article will help you to customise your business and calendar, after which you will be ready to: - Add appointments to your Calendar according to your service preferences - Take online bookings through your Public Booking Page - Send Booking confirmations and reminders Set up Locations - Locations are where you run your bu...
To make sure clients, or Team Members making bookings, don't see Team Members/Resources as available when they're on holiday, Time-off can be added to mark them as such. Schedules are location-specific. So, if you have more than one Location, you'll need to set up availability for each one separately. Setting time off Time-off can be s...
By default, pricing doesn't show to clients making online bookings. To show pricing, go to Booking Preferences. The setting Show pricing online needs to be ticked. Bookem Basic users set simple pricing in Settings - Services. If you are using Bookem Plus, then your pricing can be set in Payments & Invoicing - Line items
It's important to set up correct working hours for you business for the following reasons: - so that your main calendar has helpful visual cues to clearly indicate when team members are on holiday/time-off vs blocked out vs available/business as usual. - so that reports work correctly - most importantly, if your business takes onli...
It's nice to start using Bookem with all your clients already loaded. You can do this if you can get your clients into a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file or spreadsheet, such as Excel or Numbers (if you're on a Mac). Once you have, to import all clients into your Bookem account from a CSV file (or spreadsheet)a, follow these steps: Firs...
Your clients can make an appointment online after finding your business on Google. This is how: - Register your business on Google My Business, if you haven't already, by following this link - Follow the instructions in this article That's it :)
Forms is a Bookem Plus feature that you can use to capture client information online. No more paper! There are three kinds of forms: - Sendable forms, for e.g. intake forms/questionnaires. Send these forms manually or automatically. See more about automating messages. - booking forms, used for capturing additional information from...
Do you feel that if clients see a totally open schedule like this might give the wrong impression? Or perhaps you only want a limited number of Public Bookings (online bookings) available per day. Bookem has a solution: Limit your public availability, by telling Bookem to show a maximum of x amount of slots and a minimum of y slots on ...
Forms can have information entered that: - only gets stored on the form, which you can still access from the Client "Forms" section, but don't need regular access to such as "referring practitioner" - that merges with a client's information on their client profile - this would be information that is needed regularly for invoices, pati...
Integrating your Bookem account with your Google My Business page is easy. Just copy your Public Booking Page URL in your Business Profile Settings, and add it to your Google My Business listing: Sign in to Google My Business Select the location you'd like to edit, and click Info Edit the URLs section, add your scheduling link as...
We love to hear about what you think may be something particularly useful or a usability refinement for Bookem. In fact, we take feedback from everyone that do (and lots that don't yet!) use Bookem to help us decide what we do next. Unfortunately we can't implement every request. Feature requests that are likely to benefit a large number...
By default, Google Apps/ Google Workspace user calendars are not shared externally. Fortunately, it’s a simple fix if you know where to look. Here are the steps you can take to enable it in the Google Apps admin console. Log in to the Admin Console. Click Apps > Google Apps > Calendar Under Share settings, change the default to on...
It may be that you have more than one client associated with a particular email or phone number. To find out if this is the case, go to the clients page and search for the email or phone number that received the notification. If you see more than one client show up, this is likely the cause. If you're having trouble finding out who made t...
You can send bulk SMS messages to your clients using filters and add multiple filter criteria to refine your audience. For example: You can find it under Messages ; on the top right hand side, click the button Bulk SMS and then hit Create bulk SMS button again on the top right. Have a look at the short video below to see how it works.
Bookem doesn't do email campaigns, only bulk SMS campaigns ( see how ). However, you can use other bulk emailing apps, such as MailChimp, by exporting your client list from Bookem and importing them into in any of these apps. To do this, head to Clients, click on Export Clients on the top right. Alternatively, download only clients ...
Default notifications Automated Messages provides a powerful way of engaging with your clients. By default, Bookem sets up a few default Automated Messages for appointment-related notifications: - Two Reminders (a day before and an hour before and appointment) - A notification for Booking Created - A notification for Booking Can...
Bookem is what’s called a Progressive Web App (PWA). This means that, yes, there is an app, but it's not necessary to download from a store, such as Google's Play or Apple's App Store. This article will run you through how to install Bookem as an app on different devices. On desktop The easiest way of doing this is on Chrome. - navigat...
Bookem supports multiple currencies for one business. In order to accept multiple currencies, set your payments and invoicing to "maintain separate client accounts for each location" do this in Settings - Payments & Invoicing Next go to Settings - Locations, choose your locations and set the currencies accordingly, if you have not don...
To make sure clients, or Team Members making bookings, don't see Team Members or Resources Time-off can be added to mark them as unavailable. Schedules are location-specific. So, if you have more than one Location, you'll need to set up availability for each one separately. For an entire team at a location taking time off, go to Availa...
Yes. Your business can have multiple locations, and each can be in its own time zone. To avoid confusion, clients that are sent notifications with start times have it translated to their time zone. Your time zone is set in Settings - Locations When clients book online somewhere else in the world, they see your available hours trans...
To view a payment history report in Bookem, select "Accounts - Payments" then click on the "export" button. Select your date range and "download"
Bookem Booking Preferences is the place you set how your Bookings are handled when you, or your team members, make a booking manually as well as how your Public bookings are managed. For a quick view of Booking Preferences, watch the clip below and then read on for more detailed information for each of the setting options. Default stat...
Upon encountering unusual or errant behaviour on Bookem, we might ask you to capture a screen recording to mail or message us. This article explains how to go about it on desktops. For screen recording: Easiest option is to use your phone’s camera and message it to our WhatsApp support number: +27 (0) 872500345 Windows - Open the app/...
Once you have launched your video call, select the "Share screen" option on the left. Share screen works best on Chrome, because you can choose between sharing a window, an app or a Chrome tab.
Bookem Video call is a Bookem Plus feature, which automatically generates video call links for virtual appointments. The beauty of using the integrated Video call feature is that Bookem does all the work for you, you do not need to use a third party for your video calling. STEP ONE: Create a Service in Settings - Services and set it as ...
Create a "Resource Group" of team members. Resource groups are collections of resources that can be referred to in services, clients can then pick an individual from the group based on availability or preference. (Resource groups can also be a group of rooms, mats or parking bays etc, but in this article we are referring to team members) ...
The most efficient way to send forms to clients is to do so automatically. You can do this using your services and automated messages settings. A typical example would be for a client having their first appointment, to be automatically sent a Client admission/ intake form as their appointment is confirmed. You can set this up in Setting...
You can let a client complete a form on your device by choosing the "Fill in" option from the dot menu on the relevant form. After clicking "Fill in", find the client and choose the "Open in new tab" option. Note : you could potentially expose sensitive client information by handing over your device to a client. To make things safer, yo...
To reuse a document, image, table or chart that you'd like in your Notes, you can create a Note Form out of it. Here's a video - Go to Forms / Note Forms - Click + Add, name your Note Form - Add a Field type called 'Diagram' - Save and close You'll be able to access this note form in any Note you're making by clicking on the...
Making a booking for a new client yourself is possible with Bookem. Simply open your calendar to the desired day and time, select the time slot - you can "double click" or select "add a new booking" - and follow the prompts from there. The minimum information you can add for a new client is their name, however, you need to include their ...
Your location is where you operate from. It can be your physical address. If you do provide a physical address, when clients click on their appointment details link from notifications (such as reminders), they will see your Location on a map. Clicking on this map will take them to you on Google Maps. Team Members, Resources and Service...
The service interval on your public booking page is the length of the service by default. This ensure you can take the maximum amount of bookings per day. The benefit of having slots show at the same interval as the service length You might have a service with a duration of 4 hours over working hours extending from 8am until 5pm. By def...
- Tokens are what you need in order to send SMS messages. - The amount of tokens it takes per SMS depends on the destination you're sending it to. - You get some free tokens when you sign up, but after the you have to buy tokens up-front. Tokens are charged based on the destination country of the recipient, i.e. where the mobi...
Accepting PayPal payments for Online bookings and invoice payments is a Bookem Plus feature, which helps streamline your workflow even more - generate an invoice for the appointment - from your calendar, client profile or accounts section - and the rest "just happens" In order to Link Bookem to PayPal, you need to have a PayPal account, ...
To see a full list of the booking history for a client, go to " Clients " open their profile in the Client list and click on the " Bookings " tab. Here you will see a full list all Scheduled, Completed and No shows for that particular client.
You can find a report on this under Insights. See screenshot below:
Fallback functionality helps ensure notifications are delivered when incomplete client profile information exists. For example, if a client’s profile is missing an email or cellphone number. It also kicks in when you run out of tokens. This is how it works, if you're using, as an example, e-mail with SMS fallback: - if an email addres...
To duplicate or copy a form you have created, simply go to Forms and select the form you would like to copy, click on the box with three dots and choose "copy". Give it a new name and edit as you like.
Before you can integrate with Bookem, you need to register for SnapScan. Once you have registered, a Snap code (Merchant ID) will be assigned to you. Be very careful to enter the code accurately, and note that it is case-sensitive. Go to Settings - Payments & Invoicing - Payment methods and select +Add payment method Select Snapscan...
This article is about doing a one-way sync with your external calendar to Bookem. This enables you to: - see busy slots, for e.g. personal appointments, on your Bookem calendar - automatically blocks out slots, so that if you're accepting online bookings from clients slots already taken on your external calendar won't be able to be b...
This article shows you how to get one or more iCal subscription URLs from your iOS/MacOS iCloud or My Office 365/Outlook calendar and plug it in to Bookem. This way your busy times on any of those calendars block out your availability on Bookem. iCloud - Log in to iCloud. - Open the Calendar app. - Click on the greyed out "wirel...
Integrating your public booking page with Squarespace is straightforward: - First read this article on how to take bookings directly from your business website; copy the embed code - Use the embed code on Squarespace in the manner described on their website here Once you know the url for your public booking page, insert it into t...
Forms are a Bookem Plus feature. Bookem Basic client fields are preset and store First Name, Last Name, email and contact number and the default booking form asks for the same information. These details are stored in the Client Profile. Sendable Forms A Sendable form is used to capture all of your client information, including, but not ...
Set the repeats in your Availability Settings to show client's when you are available for online bookings. These are useful for services that you may not want to make available for booking any day or time of the week. Overview Perhaps you offer Home Visits, but only on Wednesday and Friday mornings, or the first day of the month. Set yo...
If you've got bookings happening on AirBnB and need to block out times you're booked on Bookem (or vice versa), see this article on AirBnB to: - export your iCal url from AirBnB, i.e. for syncing from AirBnB to Bookem. Once you have your iCal URL you can use it paste it into your Team Member preferences by going to Settings | Team Member...
Sometimes we'll ask you to send us a screenshot or screen recording of an issue you're experiencing, or a point that's under discussion on your device. This article tells you how to get this from your mobile device, whether it's an iOS or an Android. If it's a desktop, simply record a video or take an image with your phone and send that ...
We all like a Friday afternoon off once a month - watch this short video to see how to add a Friday afternoon off, once every 4 weeks for Paizlee Perfect, from within Availability. This will ensure that she does not show as available for bookings on those Fridays. Remember to repeat this process for each location the Team Member works at...
This article is about embedding your public booking page from Bookem directly on your website, for e.g. yoursite.com/booknow instead of yoursite.bookem.com. This article assumes you know a thing or two about HTML and have access to necessary privileges on your website. To do this, you need to copy across a snippet of code, which you can ...
Certain businesses find it important to add a signature field to Notes. If you're one of these businesses, it's important to bear in mind that changes to Note versions are saved against the logged in team member's profile. In a way this trumps the intent of signing a Note, since, if you ever need to, prove that it was that team member who...
Bookem automatically assigns bookings made online to the correct client, based on their name, surname, cellphone and email address. However, sometimes a client can book online with slightly different details to what they are stored as on your business, for e.g.: - a different email address and/or cellphone number is used - a nickname ...
Invoicing is a Bookem Plus feature. Line Items for invoices, consisting of prices, descriptions and codes set up in Payments and Invoicing Settings can be associated with services either in Service Settings or when creating an invoice by adding one or more Line Item Groups. Once this is done, you can generate an invoice from either your:...
Notes is available on Bookem's premium subscription offering. It lets you: - take notes about your clients, and associate them with bookings, by typing, scribbling or drawing, for e.g. with an Apple Pencil or your finger. - upload and store files associated with clients or Notes - add images to your Notes, or take photos while writing...
Book Video is a Bookem Plus feature, which automatically generates video call links for virtual appointments. The beauty of using the integrated video calls, is that you do not need to generate a separate video call in a third party application and share the details, Bookem does this all for you. All you and your client need to do, once t...
Sometimes schedules of Team Members differ to the general business schedule. Bookem allows you to set availability for Team Members and Resources according to Time, Services and Location. So you may have someone who works at multiple locations and/ or only offers certain Services, on certain days. By setting these availability settings a...
Some users who use password managers such as Lastpass, Chrome, which comes with a password manager, Keychain (iOS/MacOS), or 1Password, may give a warning such as "...a data breach on a site or app exposed your password. Chrome recommends checking your saved passwords and changing your password...". See the image below. But whatever pa...
Adding a Book now button to your website will direct users to your public booking page. You'll need to know a little bit about HTML to do this... To access the code for the button go to Calendar and click on the Share icon on the top right, select "Share". Scroll down the page to "Book now button", copy the code and insert the button...
Bookem supports two way communication - between you and your clients - and every message (email and SMS) is tracked and logged for your records. In order to see what messages have been sent, including SMS reminders and replies from clients, invoices, and online form links, go to " Messages " and pick sent or received from the top line. ...
If you want to ensure clients complete certain fields on a form, you can mark them as required. To do this: - go to Forms and drill into the Forms area you need (Sendable, Booking or Notes) - Click on Edit, then select the field you'd like to mark as required and toggle 'Required' to the On position. See video below:
Note Forms are a Bookem Premium feature. To add a form to a client note, go to the client's profile in Clients, or from the appointment in your calendar: select Notes, for e.g., straight from the booking on the calendar Create or Edit an existing Note click on the "Insert form" icon and select the relevant form, then choose a form y...
This article steps you through a typical journey, from beginning to end, booking to billing, from a business and client's perspective. It'll hopefully provide an idea of how things could work for you and your clients. Making your first booking First, go to your calendar and click on any time slot. You should see the following dialog po...
The screenshots below show you how to get one or more links from your Google calendar(s) so that busy slots mark you as unavailable on Bookem: Note : if you don't see the heading Secret address in iCal format then you're probably using a Google Apps account. You'll need to get your Google Apps administrator to follow the steps in t...
Services are the types of appointments that clients can book with you. This is the first thing that a client selects when they make a booking with you. To create a new service: - Navigate to Settings -> Services and click the button in the top right corner. - Name and Duration are the most important and must be specified. The re...
Forms is a Bookem Plus feature. You can send client intake forms to new clients automatically, by setting up you Automated Messages as follows: Create your SMS and Email messages, linking to the Admission form. In the example below, each field that is highlight in purple is linked to a variable that will populate accordingly.
You can set Bookem to notify you when any of the following happens with your bookings - these may be Online Bookings or Bookings made by yourself or another Team Member. These can be turned off or on for notifications delivered: In-App - via the bouncing notification bell on the top right (see below) via SMS, or email (via your logged ...
At this stage, Bookem does not handle real-time medical aid claims, also known as EDI or switching, natively. However, we have partnered with a medical billing bureau that specialises in medical billing for allied therapists. We call this our Medical Billing Service. Our services include, but are not limited to: - Authorisations for in...
This article explains how to get your Bookem calendar to appear on your Google or Outlook calendars. Remember that your calendar on Google and outlook depends entirely on how often these platforms decide to check on your behalf, so don't expect your calendar to synchronise instantly, or even hours afterwards. First, you'll need to get yo...
While in the calendar view, click on the button with three dots on the top right. Then choose download and specify the dates you want to print along with your preferences, such as colour (vs black and white) and orientation. Clicking download will generate a PDF and save it to your default downloads folder (as determined by your browser)....
Upgrading to Bookem Plus gives you: - Invoicing/billing - invoice your clients directly from your calendar - Take online Payments - allocate payments manually, or set up a payment gateway (see payment gateways currently supported). Use payment gateways to take payments when clients book online, or by clicking on links/scanning QR codes ...
To accept payments online (for invoices or online bookings), the following payment gateways are supported, with more added regularly: - Snapscan - Payfast - Paypal If you urgently need another, ping us on help@bookem.com with your request.
In order to reduce clutter and unnecessary duplications on your public booking page, Bookem allows you to add different durations for the "same" service - see example below, Follow up Consultation - with duration options of 30 minutes, 45 minutes of 1 hour. To do this, when adding or editing a service, in Settings - Services, simply se...
Sendable Forms are typically used for new Client/Patient Intake forms or Questionnaires/Surveys. Forms are a Bookem Plus feature, please contact us if you would like to trial Bookem Plus. Forms can have to kinds of fields on them; fields that need to: - only get stored on the form, which you can still access from the Client "Forms" sect...
It's not necessary to have multiple services when you have multiple durations. For example, DON'T DO THIS: - Follow-up consultation (30 minutes) - Follow-up consultation (45 minutes) - Follow-up consultation (60 minutes) Rather, Bookem allows you to add different durations for the "same" service - see example below, Follow up Consu...
Your Public Booking page URL is found in Calendar - Share. See screenshots below. Online bookings will only be possible if you have availability set up and your Booking Preferences are set to allow it. You can use this URL anywhere - your email footer, in online ads, mention it on voicemails, or link through it it from text or a button ...
Note forms are used with Notes, a Bookem Premium feature. Note forms are forms used within Notes, as a way of creating a set of questions and/or fields and/or images or body charts for completing when making a Note. They are for practitioners to complete and are not sendable i.e the client does not complete this. A typical note form m...
Yes! Simply go to your Bookem Team Members Notifications profile and set the reminders accordingly, you can choose how many reminders you get, and whether they are sent to you via SMS, email or both. In the example below, Paizlee will receive a reminder via SMS and Email, 1 hour before the appointment and then again an SMS reminder, 15...
- Open a new Excel document and navigate to the Data tab. - Click “From Text”. - Navigate to the CSV file you wish to open and click “ Import ”. - From the newly-opened window, choose “Delimited”. Then click “Next”. - Check the box next to the type of delimiter – in most cases this is either a semicolon or a comma.... - Cli...
Yes you can - and it's remarkably simple - go to Settings - Payments & Invoicing and under the Invoice Tab, change Business address to "Other" and enter the "Other address and contact details". See the images below.
Add and edit Team Member Details, Availability and Notification settings in Settings - Team Members. To add a Team Member click on the + Add button on the top right, which lets you load the basics for a new Team Member, which, when saved, shows a few more options, such as for Percy Perfect below. You'll see Locations he is associated...
It's quite easy to ask clients for specific information when they are booking online. For e.g. you may be taking a booking for a "Couples Consultation" and need to know the name of the partner in addition to the name of the person making the booking. To do this, you need to create service-specific Booking forms that ask questions relate...
Line item groups, A Bookem Plus feature, are used to store frequently used combinations of treatment codes and descriptions that would typically be used when capturing invoices. For example, a Physiotherapist may create a Line item groups called "Spinal treatment" which could contain codes for Initial evaluation, Soft tissue mobilisa...
If the order of services on your public booking page, i.e. where your clients book online, are listed in an order which isn't ideal, the order can be forced in your service settings in Settings | Services, clicking on the service name and then the Show more button above your (first) location. See images below. Change the value of List ...
Bookem supports EFT Payments, once you receive notification of Payment, you can manually capture this receipt in Bookem Accounts - Payments and your client will automatically receive confirmation of this receipt. (Invoices and Payments is a Bookem Plus feature, please contact us if you would like to trial Bookem Plus) To add your Bank De...
Sometimes you're location may be tricky to find, even using a GPS. If you need to add additional directions or instructions, add them in Settings - Locations. This is also handy if you need to make notes about parking, one way streets or other nice to know information that will make it easier for your client to arrive on time for their ap...
This article deals with how to do a one-way sync of your appointments on Bookem to your external calendar. Find out how to sync your Bookem calendar with: - your calendar on your iOS device - Google or Outlook Calendar Note : sync isn't immediate; it is completely up to your calendar provider to decide how often to poll Bookem t...
Facebook has a feature that allows business page administrators to add a configurable button to their Facebook page. This can be used to allow clients to make bookings directly from Facebook. Here's how: Click on the 'Create Call-to-action' button. Note, you'll need to have a Facebook business page and logged in as the administrator. ...
The security and safety of your data is very important to us. This article describes, broadly, what we do to safeguard your data. Redundancy Our servers have redundancy built-in. This means that if Bookem's app server goes down for whatever reason, another version takes over. Same with our databases. Backups All your data is automatic...
On Android devices or on iOS, simply activate the camera, point it at the QR code and tap on the prompt to open the link.
Bookem gets updated regularly. When this happens, a pop up will ask if you'd like to update or be reminded in 5 minutes. Clicking update will load the latest version. If you have unsaved work, its best to finish first and then update on the next prompt. On rare occasions, your browser may get stuck on a version. This requires a hard rese...
Yes, go to Settings - Payments & Invoicing - Line items, and create your pricing per line item and location. Either + Add line item or select the one you want to edit and update the information accordingly. You need to add pricing to each location, in order to set up your Services with Itemised pricing and to ensure your Invoice pulls ...
Change your address, telephone number or primary contact email address in Settings - locations Change your website address, logo or public booking page description in Settings - business profile
Believe it or not, the biggest general security risk in using Bookem is you and your team. Here are a few things you need to do to protect your business data against unauthorised access, and ensure that client data doesn't get in the hands of people that aren’t supposed to have it. Unique logins for each team member Always invite each ...
To set lunch breaks for an individual team member, go to Settings - Team members and select the relevant team member. Click on Availability at the top and then Add schedule (top right) In the example below, Paizlee Perfect takes lunch every day of the week at 12:00PM to 1:00PM. Note that when setting up a recurring time off such as thi...
For businesses that want to track conversions, i.e. appointments made online, using Google Tag Manager/Google's Global Site Tag will automatically just work if you embed Bookem's public booking page to your website, assuming your site already uses GTags/Google Tag Manager. Read more about embedding Bookem on your website.
Bookem's default Booking form asks for Name, Surname, Email, Contact Number and Notes. If you'd like to customise your booking forms, i.e. ask specific questions depending on the service being booked, this is how you go about it: Go to Forms and click on Booking Choose to edit an existing form, or to add a new form: Click to add a fiel...
By default, Bookem pre-populates your invoice messages to clients when one of the following happens: - Invoice voided - Invoice paid - Invoice finalised There is also and option to add a message for invoices marked as "Uncollectable " - in this message, you may want to explain how the client can make plans to pay off the outstanding...
To view your bookings on your iPhone follow the steps below. - Click on the avatar icon on the top right if on desktop, or the hamburger icon on the top left if on mobile - Go to your Team Member in Settings - Copy the Calendar Feed URL - Navigate to Settings on your phone, then Passwords & Accounts, Add Account, then Other - Tap o...
Bookem Premium is our all-inclusive subscription tier. It includes everything in Bookem Plus, including: - Notes and Note Forms, AKA Clinical or Patient Notes - Extensions (coming up) - File and image storage Bookem premium costs R800 per month for up to 3 practitioners and R250 thereafter per team member with a calendar.
Yes! In Settings - Services, edit the public visibility for online bookings by toggling the "Enable online bookings" to off. You can still book this service yourself, but client's will not see it on your public booking page.
Bookem Forms is a Bookem Plus feature and offers a vast range of Input Field options types, which make capturing information, asking questions and gathering data super easy. Short text entry: This is for one line answers, such as Name or Surname Long text entry: This allows for longer, more detailed answers to questions like "tell us...
If you'd like to store more client details, such as home and postal address, medical aid details, identity number and so forth, this article is for you. Custom fields are important when using: - Invoicing; or - Forms (for online bookings or online intake forms/questionnaires) Head to Clients and click the Profile fields button on the...
Invoicing and payments is a Bookem Plus feature, Bookem supports many payment options, including Cash, Credit Card, Bank Transfer, SnapScan, Payfast and PayPal. You can choose to accept Online Payments for Bookings, receive traditional payments in your Practice or via EFT. There is more than one way to capture a payment manually, From ...