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|title=Bookings on Facebook - SimplyBook.me
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*<span style="background-color:#ffe9e9; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">It is possible to connect booking option to Facebook Business and Instagram Business pages. This functionality cannot be added to a personal page.</span><br>
*<span style="background-color:#ffe9e9; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">It is possible to connect booking option to Facebook Business and Instagram Business pages. This functionality cannot be added to a personal page.</span><br>
*<span style="background-color:#ffe9e9; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">The booking option is not shown on desktop Instagram version and can be used via mobile apps only.</span><br>
*<span style="background-color:#ffe9e9; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">The booking option is not shown on desktop Instagram version and can be used via mobile apps only.</span><br>
*<span style="background-color:#ffe9e9; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Bookingtroll theme is used for the booking widget by default. If you wish to change the styling please upgrade to Premium to select the desired theme and be able to use <span style="background-color:#cdeffc; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">[[Custom_Features#Custom_CSS|Custom CSS]]</span> adjustments.</span><br>
*<span style="background-color:#ffe9e9; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Bookingtroll theme is used for the booking widget by default. If you wish to change the styling please upgrade to Premium to select the desired theme and be able to use <span style="background-color:#cdeffc; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">[[Special:MyLanguage/Custom CSS custom feature|Custom CSS]]</span> adjustments.</span><br>
*<span style="background-color:#ffe9e9; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">The widget look may differ depending on Facebook preferences for different devices and applications</span><br>
*<span style="background-color:#ffe9e9; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">The widget look may differ depending on Facebook preferences for different devices and applications</span><br>
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:'''Video tutorial available '''<p><youtube>9o5fJkZD384</youtube></p>
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==How to add and use booking option to Facebook/Instagram business page==
==How to add and use booking option to Facebook/Instagram business page==
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:1. Enable <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook & Instagram Bookings</span> custom feature on your <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Custom Features</span> page.
:1. Enable <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook & Instagram Bookings</span> custom feature on your <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Custom Features</span> page.
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:2. Login to your Facebook/Instagram business account(s) in another browser tab.
:2. Login to your Facebook/Instagram business account(s) in another browser tab.
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:3. Go back to SimplyBook.me interface and click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> near <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook & Instagram Bookings.</span>
:3. Go back to SimplyBook.me interface and click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> near <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook & Instagram Bookings.</span>
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[[File:Facebook & insta bookings settings path redesigned.png|1200px|border|center|link=https://help.simplybook.me/images/b/b6/Facebook_%26_insta_bookings_settings_path_redesigned.png]]
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:4. Click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Connect with Facebook</span> button on the page you see.
:4. Click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Connect with Facebook</span> button on the page you see.
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:5. You will be redirected to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook</span> interface to manage the permissions and connection to SimplyBook.me.<br>
:5. You will be redirected to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook</span> interface to manage the permissions and connection to SimplyBook.me.<br>
:Please follow the steps 1-5 displayed below.<br>
:Please follow the steps 1-5 displayed below.<br>
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:6. Now you will have your services shown on your Facebook page with <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Book</span> buttons next to them or <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Book now</span> button under the page banner that will redirect your clients to your booking site.<br>
:6. Now you will have your services shown on your Facebook page with <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Book</span> buttons next to them or <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Book now</span> button under the page banner that will redirect your clients to your booking site.<br>
:(the representation options depend on your Facebook business page)
:(the representation options depend on your Facebook business page)
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==How to remove Book button from Facebook/Instagram pages==
==How to remove Book button from Facebook/Instagram pages==
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:1. Navigate to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Custom Features</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook & Instagram Bookings</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> on SimplyBook.me side.
:1. Navigate to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Custom Features</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook & Instagram Bookings</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> on SimplyBook.me side.
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:2. Click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Logout</span> at the top of the page.
:2. Click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Logout</span> at the top of the page.
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==How to add and use booking option on Instagram only==
==How to add and use booking option on Instagram only==
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==How to remove Book option from Instagram business page==
==How to remove Book option from Instagram business page==
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=Call-to-action button for Facebook fan page=
=Call-to-action button for Facebook fan page=
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:1. Go to your Page’s cover photo and click <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">+ Add a Button</span>
:1. Go to your Facebook business page cover photo, click on three dots below the cover image and select <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Add action button</span>
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:2. Choose your call-to-action, then select <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Link to website</span> option and enter the URL for your booking site.
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:2. You can choose "Book now" or "Reserve" options as a call-to-action and then choose [https://simplybook.me/en/ SimplyBook.me]. That way you will enable [[Special:MyLanguage/Facebook and Instagram Bookings]] custom feature
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:3. Click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Finish</span> and you will get the button <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Book Now</span> as a result, so that your clients will be able to click on it, go to your booking site and book your services.
:3. If you need to have a button leading to your booking website you can select "Contact us" or "Learn more" in that popup
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=Facebook chat bot=
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:3. Paste your booking website link to the corresponding field and save settings.
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:1. Enable <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook Bot</span> custom feature on your <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Custom Features</span> page.
:4. As the result you will have the action button with the text "Contact us" or "Learn more" that will lead to your booking website.
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[[File:Image.png|1200px|center|link=https://help.simplybook.me/images/3/34/Image.png]]
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:2. You will see its settings on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">the right side of the page</span>
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:3. Log into the <span style="background-color:#cdeffc; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">[https://developers.facebook.com/ Facebook Developer Console]. </span>
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=How to add a Facebook Messenger chat to your booking page=
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:'''Video tutorial available '''<p><youtube>PuFFtCOksc8</youtube></p>
:4. Click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">My Apps</span> in the upper right-hand corner and choose to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Add a New App.</span>
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:5. Enter a name and contact email address and click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Create App ID.</span>
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:6. Add all basic information about your company and application, required links, an icon for the application as well as GDPR related information if necessary in <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Basic.</span>
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:7. Then please click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">+</span> near <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Products</span> on the left-side.
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:8. Click the <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Set Up</span> button for the <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Messenger</span> option.
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:9. Under the <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Access Tokens</span> section, choose one of your Facebook business pages or create a new one.
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:10. Click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Generate token</span> button, check token generation warning and copy the token code.
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:11. Paste the token into SimplyBook.me <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook Bot feature</span> settings.
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:12. Click the <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Add Callback URL</span> button under the <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Webhooks</span> section and paste <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Callback URL</span> and <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Verify token</span> copied from SimplyBook.me <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook Bot feature settings.</span>
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:13. Hit <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Add subscriptions</span>, select <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">messages</span> and <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">messaging_postbacks</span> in the popup. Save.
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:14. Proceed to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">App review</span> section and click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Add to submission</span> in front of pages_messaging API.
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:15. Scroll down to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Current submission</span> section and click on <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Add details</span> link.
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:16. In the popup that appears provide the details according to the following example.
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:Screencast example [[File:Youtube-Logo.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeBF41JElW4&feature=youtu.be]]
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:17. Submit your app for review.
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:18. You can also make your app live for approved users to test.
:It will become available to all your page visitors after Facebook approval.
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:You can add users here:
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:19. It may take some time for Facebook to approve your application and your clients will be able to book using the chat bot.
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:1.You can add [https://simplybook.me SimplyBook.me] functionality to Facebook fan page (only to fan page, it can't be connected to your personal page) in <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Bookings on Webpage or Facebook</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Facebook booking widget</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Apply & add to facebook</span> -> choose the page to attach [https://simplybook.me Simplybook] to.
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:2. After you connected [https://simplybook.me SimplyBook.me] to Facebook fan page, it is listed in the left-side menu of the page under the photo of your company.
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You can press <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Templates and tabs</span> and make [https://simplybook.me SimplyBook.me] more visible for clients by dragging and dropping it higher in the list.
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:3. You may need to change the title <span style="background-color:#cdeffc; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">[https://simplybook.me Simplybook.me appointments]</span> to something else. For this, on your Facebook fan page go to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span>(upper bar) -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Templates and tabs</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">SimplyBook.me appointments</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Edit settings</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Custom tab name.</span>
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==How to remove Facebook widget from my Facebook page?==
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On your Facebook fan page go to <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span>(upper bar) -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Templates and tabs</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">SimplyBook.me appointments</span> -> <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Settings</span> -> press <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">Off</span> near <span style="background-color:#d4f8e5; padding:5px; border-radius:5px;">[https://simplybook.me Simplybook] app</span> to remove this tab and save settings.
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==Facebook widget is not visible from mobiles==
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:Unfortunately, Facebook does not show third-party apps from mobiles. Your clients need to access desktop version to book from Facebook.
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==I cannot change the email when book from Facebook==
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:When you use Facebook widget, the [https://simplybook.me system] perceives a customer as Facebook user and uses his/her data to fill in the details. Thus, by default it uses email under which Facebook is registered. Unfortunately, it is not in our competency to change this, you can try contacting Facebook support to clarify this issue.
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