Why!? Why can I not have categories on my appointment booking page? It’s 2022 and Square can’t code it so that we have categories for clients when booking an appointment? It seems so easy. Vagaro has it. Schedulicity has it. I’m so close to switching because of this. Clients have to scroll through a huge list of different treatments instead of selecting a category like “face” or “body” and then seeing treatments that correspond.
So, there is a way to do this, but it requires embedding the list on your own website.
In appointments, under online booking, Advanced Widget:
"Create New Widget for [your company name]"
Give this widget a name - location, day of the week, etc. Whatever will help you know what is in the list.
You can select what staff are able to be booked - so you could limit it per location
You can select which services are to be included
Save
Now you will see the widget in the "Saved Custom Widget" list.
Click view and the online booking page will open displaying only the staff and services you selected.
You can copy the link URL and either send it to clients, make a link on your business website, or embed the entire widget into your site. You can even embed several widgets on the same page of your website to split up categories, dates/days, location, staff, etc, keeping all services on one page, just organized by categories. Or you can devote separate pages to specific items/staff/etc. I created a google site (in google drive) website to try this out. works beautifully with a google site. I haven't tried it with any other site yet. It molds right into your webpage and keeps viewers on your site and not moving to the appointments page and missing all the other content on your website. Google Sites is free.
I hope this helps those that are really struggling with the need to have this all categorized and organized better. If you have any questions about what I've done here, please ask.
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