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    <title>thread How to display class booking system in external website in Appointments &amp; Bookings</title>
    <link>https://community.squareup.com/t5/Appointments-Bookings/How-to-display-class-booking-system-in-external-website/m-p/839428#M6570</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi there.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have been a Square customer for many years. I started off with a Square reader and then incorporated Square payment processing into my Wix website for online payments.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have just looked into using Square Appointments as my booking platform for classes (I am a yoga class business). I signed up to a free trial of Square Appointments Plus. I created my classes and packages. Then I went to explore how to "insert" the booking calendar into my website.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;However, I when I go to Appointments/Online booking/Channels it says under Booking Channels that the features - "Add a book button to your website" and "embedding a booking flow into a website" are not currently available for classes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;I asked support but they confirmed that it wasn't available. I am not clear if this means not available to me specifically (perhaps based on my free trial status?), my region, or if this functionality is not yet available?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If it is the latter then I have to say that the Square sales pages for Appointments are highly misleading and I've just wasted two days of my life trying to set up a new booking system that is impractical to use.&amp;nbsp;How can Square justify $40AUD per month for a booking system that can't be displayed on or integrated into your website?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I really hope I've got it wrong some how. Any advice/feedback would be really appreciated.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:01:53 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Contentment</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2026-03-27T06:01:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How to display class booking system in external website</title>
      <link>https://community.squareup.com/t5/Appointments-Bookings/How-to-display-class-booking-system-in-external-website/m-p/839428#M6570</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi there.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have been a Square customer for many years. I started off with a Square reader and then incorporated Square payment processing into my Wix website for online payments.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have just looked into using Square Appointments as my booking platform for classes (I am a yoga class business). I signed up to a free trial of Square Appointments Plus. I created my classes and packages. Then I went to explore how to "insert" the booking calendar into my website.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;However, I when I go to Appointments/Online booking/Channels it says under Booking Channels that the features - "Add a book button to your website" and "embedding a booking flow into a website" are not currently available for classes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;I asked support but they confirmed that it wasn't available. I am not clear if this means not available to me specifically (perhaps based on my free trial status?), my region, or if this functionality is not yet available?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If it is the latter then I have to say that the Square sales pages for Appointments are highly misleading and I've just wasted two days of my life trying to set up a new booking system that is impractical to use.&amp;nbsp;How can Square justify $40AUD per month for a booking system that can't be displayed on or integrated into your website?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I really hope I've got it wrong some how. Any advice/feedback would be really appreciated.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:01:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.squareup.com/t5/Appointments-Bookings/How-to-display-class-booking-system-in-external-website/m-p/839428#M6570</guid>
      <dc:creator>Contentment</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-03-27T06:01:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to display class booking system in external website</title>
      <link>https://community.squareup.com/t5/Appointments-Bookings/How-to-display-class-booking-system-in-external-website/m-p/841066#M6612</link>
      <description>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sure – here’s a shorter, more human version that still answers the question clearly and calmly.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi &lt;a href="https://community.squareup.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/406314"&gt;@Contentment&lt;/a&gt;, you haven’t got this wrong – Support gave you the correct info, unfortunately.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Embedding a booking calendar or ‘Book’ button on an external website is not currently supported for classes in Square Appointments. This is a product limitation.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;To be honest, the booking embed can be annoying anyway, personally I hate embedded iframes on websites as they confuse users with scrolling etc (especially on mobile devices). This is not specific to Square; it's just a limitation of web functionality in general (most systems have this struggle).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;What you can do instead&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Not perfect, but these are the current options:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Option 1 – Link out to Square’s booking page&lt;BR /&gt;• Copy your Square booking site URL&lt;BR /&gt;• Add a ‘Book a class’ button on your website that links to it&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Option 2 – Link to individual classes&lt;BR /&gt;• Use the share link for each class&lt;BR /&gt;• Link class times on your website directly to those booking links&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Option 3 – Use Square Online just for bookings&lt;BR /&gt;• Create a simple Square Online page with classes&lt;BR /&gt;• Link to it from your website&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Your frustration is fair though. Square’s Appointments pages don’t clearly spell out that class bookings can’t be embedded, which is a real gap for class based businesses.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If staying fully on Wix is a must, and embedding is essential, Square Appointments may not be the right fit for class bookings right now. Some Sellers keep Square for payments and POS, and use a separate booking tool purely for website embeds.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I’d strongly recommend submitting this as a &lt;A href="https://community.squareup.com/t5/Feature-Requests/idb-p/product-ideas" target="_self"&gt;feature request&lt;/A&gt; though – class embedding is an obvious gap.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:27:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.squareup.com/t5/Appointments-Bookings/How-to-display-class-booking-system-in-external-website/m-p/841066#M6612</guid>
      <dc:creator>tomven</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-04-17T22:27:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to display class booking system in external website</title>
      <link>https://community.squareup.com/t5/Appointments-Bookings/How-to-display-class-booking-system-in-external-website/m-p/841072#M6617</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks so much for your thoughtful reply. In the end, I have found an alternative platform that ironically, also cannot be embedded. But it costs less than half what Square Appointments costs. That’s fine, Square has grown to such a size that I understand that its pricing model is no longer the best for sole traders and micro businesses.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I did consider moving to Square online if the functionality was better than Wix, but sadly it’s not and again, is more expensive.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:00:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.squareup.com/t5/Appointments-Bookings/How-to-display-class-booking-system-in-external-website/m-p/841072#M6617</guid>
      <dc:creator>Contentment</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-04-17T23:00:35Z</dc:date>
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