Tip #17: How to mandate partial payment for your appointments
When you require partial payments during the booking process, customers can only schedule with you after paying a certain amount in advance. This deposit acts as a commitment between both parties. Apart from that, it has many more advantages. Benefits
Implement Meeting Polls in Zoho Bookings
Dear Zoho Bookings Support Team, We'd like to propose a feature enhancement related to appointment scheduling within Zoho Bookings. Current Functionality: Zoho Bookings excels at streamlining individual appointment scheduling. Users can set availability
Introducing Appointment Title Customization
Hi all, We're delighted to announce an exciting feature, Appointment Title Customization, which you can use to personalize your appointment title according to your business's specific needs and preferences. An appointment title provides a glimpse of the
Attention: Scheduled Maintenance at US DC on Dec 19, 2024
Dear Bookings users, We would like to inform you that we've scheduled maintenance activity at our US data centers on Thursday, December 19th, 2024, from 5:30 PM to 5:45 PM PT. During this period, Zoho Bookings will be completely unavailable for the accounts
Variable time for consultation.
We would like to be able to not set a predefine time for the consultation. We wont be using this for the customer it's going to be use internaly to keep track of workers on the road that have appoiment and installation. Something in the line of a FSM
Two way sync Zoho Mail and Bookings
Hi, I know it’s possible to view Bookings appointments in Zoho Mail, but is there a way to see my Zoho Mail meetings in the Bookings calendar?
Recurring Bookings
Will Zoho Bookings ever offer an option to the customer to schedule recurring meetings (unlimited) for the same days/times? Making a client schedule the same days/times for an entire month is a tedious process. I'd like to offer the option upfront to
Booking outside of scheduled availability
Is there a way for staff (such as the secretary) to book appointments outside of the scheduled availability? Right now to do this special hours must be set each time. There should be a quicker way. Am I missing something?
A consultant with different working hours for each workspace
As of now, it doesn't seem to be possible to set different working hours for a single consultant in two (or more) different workspaces. For example: A consultant is going to work 2 weeks/month at workspace A and 2 weeks/month at workspace B. Yet, right
Can the meeting location be specified by the customer?
I own a painting company. I offer free estimates to customers, and I'd like them to be able to enter the meeting address in the booking form... so, the place they want me to give a painting estimate for. I need the customer to be able to tell me where
Zoho Bookings - Reserve with Google
Does Zoho Bookings plan to to integrate with Reserve with Google?
Two way sync between Bookings and Zoho Mail Calendar
Is there a way to enable a two-way sync between Bookings and the Zoho Mail Calendar? As far as I know, it is only possible to check conflicts from Bookings and push meetings from Bookings to the Calendar. However, when I press the sync button, appointments
Enhance Appointment Buffers in Zoho Bookings
There was previously a long-standing feature request related to enhancing the way appointment buffers work in Zoho Bookings, but it looks like the original post has been deleted. I am therefore adding a new request that Zoho Bookings adjust how appointment
Single use booking
Hello everyone! It would be very interesting to be able to generate unique booking links. Once a booking is made through that link, it will no longer work. Calendly has something similar: https://help.calendly.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001292022-How
Allow customers to choose meeting venue and meeting duration on booking page
My business primarily involves one-to-one meetings with my clients. Given the hybrid-work world we now find ourselves in, these meetings can take several forms (which I think of as the meeting "venue"): In-person Zoom Phone call I currently handle these
Modify the way a phone number is shown in footer on ZOHO Booking Page
The default display of the phone number field in the footer is not customer friendly - See image below. We would like it to use the accepted standards of phone number display: +61 (0)2 88545440, or allow us to choose. At the moment ZOHO Booking sets how
Features Req: Service-Specific Calendar And Limit number of bookings per guest
By The Grace of G-d. Hi, I Came across 2 features i believe more users would love to see added to the amazing bookings app: 1. Service-Specific Calendar I dont want to open my whole calendar to all of my services. For Example, Lets say i have a free consultation
Can we customize the default client-facing icons?
Is there any way to customize the client-facing icons that display in the Zoho Bookings UI? For example, I'm using the Default page theme and would like to modify the default icon that is shown beside "Service." The icon currently being shown looks like a baseball hat to me (see attached screenshot) which has no relevance to my business or clients. It would be great if Zoho could provide a different, more generic icon (perhaps a bell icon to represent service?) or better yet allow the icons to
Defaukt value in custom fields
I'm creating a custom field checkbox on my booking form, and want it checked by default, so that the customer has to specifically uncheck it. I can't see how this is possible. Can it be done?
iCloud integration
I noticed from reading other threads that native integrations with Google Meet and Microsoft Teams are right around the corner. Are there other integrations and fixes to existing integrations coming? There are 2 things keeping me from using Zoho Bookings:
Zoho Bookings Multilingual ?
Hello, Not sure if there is a way to do it currently, but it would be very helpful if Zoho bookings allowed multilingual translations so we could have our booking pages and notifications setup in multiple languages. Thanks,
Modifying iframe data of Zoho booking iframe
Hello, I have integrated a Zoho Bookings embedded iframe into my website. Currently, I am pre-filling the booking form with default values as part of our process flow. However, I want to ensure that if an input field is already populated with a default
📣📣 Zoho Bookings - Feature Roadmap 2024
Hi Everyone, Thank you for all the support you have been showing Zoho Bookings. We had a fabulous 2023, with a bunch of new features and over 60K new users. In 2024, our prime focus will be on user experience, and we have a few vital features coming in
Blocking / black listing customers
Hi, We have a situation, we observed that certain customers are blocking multiple appointments with our advsiors but not showing up. Some of these are repeat offenders. This leads to those service hours getting blocked and not available for genuine customers.
Generating Discount Coupons for Zoho Bookings
Hi, Is there provision to generate Discount Coupons for appointment bookings? I could not see that in the settings and this is very much needed. Please suggest us. Thanks
booking link that expires
I have a suggestion that is crucial. When i send booking URL to clients they keep the link and they book appointment whenever they want multiple times. You should give us the Booking URL feature. We should be able to send it and the user can use it only
Cancellation waiting list - Zoho Bookings
Is it possible to have a waiting list in case I got a cancellation it can be filled automatically with people on this list?
Bookings Sync with Zoho Calendar Breaks Again and Again
I have documented notes since June 2019! The sync between Bookings and Zoho Calendar continues to break at random times. We are nearly 3 years later and still have sync problems pop up randomly! As I type, it's broken again. I have been a stubborn client
Resource Booking - Different Time, Different Price
Hi there, In Zoho Bookings, there is an option for us to set up resources (in my case it's venue) bookings. However, I need the price of the venues to be different according to the time of the day. For example, I have a sports arena. in the morning, it would be the normal price. In the afternoon, it will a little bit cheaper, and in the evening until closing, it will be more expensive. Do you currently have this function? Or, if you don't, do you have a workaround? By the way, for resource booking,
Beauty Industry: How to design appointment scheduling sites for businesses in this industry?
Today, we have put together a guide on designing an appointment scheduling site for businesses in the beauty industry. We hope that this guide will be useful to you and do not forget to share this with anyone who you know will benefit from this. So, let us begin! If you're interested in reading more articles like these, click here. Do I need an attractive appointment scheduling site for my organization? A simple and good-looking appointment scheduling page can say a lot about your business. Beauty
Adding Taxes to paid consultations in Zoho Bookings
I created a 'paid' consultation under Zoho Booking and integrated it with payment gateways for online/instant payment before a booking is done. How can I add 'taxes' to the price of consultation? I can add taxes to other Zoho apps (liks Books, Checkout,
Resource booking functionality questions
I'm exploring the resource booking functionality in Zoho Bookings for my organisation's needs. I have a few questions about the available Zoho Bookings functionalities. Is it possible to force all users to sign up for an account before they book a resource?
Option to block bookings from specific email address or ip adresss in zoho booking
Sometime few of our client keep booking irrelevant booking service just to resolve their queries and they keep booking it again and again whenever they have queries. Currently its disturbing our current communication process and hierarchy which we have
Unable to Create Zoho Booking via the Book Appointment API
Its giving the below error { "response": { "errormessage": "Error setting value for the variable:customer_details\n null", "status": "Error" } } Request: POST Url: https://www.zohoapis.in/bookings/v1/json/appointment attached Zoho-oauthtoken
Zoho Booking Page Footer
Is there any option available to add social media, like LinkedIn, on the Zoho Booking page?
Add API Connections in Bookings?
Custom functions can be configured and run based on an appointment schedule, reschedule, cancellation, etc. However, is there no way to create connections with other apps in order to invoke certain APIs? This limits us to only using Deluge integration
GCLID and Zoho Bookings
Is there anyway to embed a Zoho Bookings signup on a landing page and pass the GCLID information? More specifically, can this be done using auto-tagging and not manual tagging the GCLID? I know Zappier has an integration to do this but is there a better
List Customer Appointments on a Web Page
I am trying to build a customer portal that allows a customer to show what appointments they have been to and what appointments they have in the future. It seems that there is no API's or widgets available allow me to easily get a view of what appointments
Zoho meeting integration
Hi Zoho, Zoho meeting integration is enabled in zoho bookings. I followed your tutorial and added both the tags %zohomeetinginfo% %meetinginfo% , but it is not displayed in the mails neither to staff nor customer. In zoho meeting, there is also no meeting scheduled. What else do we need to do to make this work?
How to Disable current Date
If you open the booking link, the current date needs to be disabled. Is it possible to do that?
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