Bookings on Facebook

Facebook and Instagram Bookings Custom Feature

Please note!

• It is possible to connect booking option to Facebook Business and Instagram Business pages. This functionality cannot be added to a personal page.
  
• The booking option is not shown on desktop Instagram version and can be used via mobile apps only.
  
• 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 Custom CSS adjustments.
  
• The widget look may differ depending on Facebook preferences for different devices and applications
  

Video tutorial available

How to add and use booking option to Facebook/Instagram business page

1. Enable Facebook & Instagram Bookings custom feature on your Custom Features page.

2. Login to your Facebook/Instagram business account(s) in another browser tab.

3. Go back to SimplyBook.me interface and click on Settings near Facebook & Instagram Bookings.

4. Click on Connect with Facebook button on the page you see.

5. You will be redirected to Facebook interface to manage the permissions and connection to SimplyBook.me.

Please follow the steps 1-5 displayed below.

(If you have Instagram business profile connected to your Facebook business page you will be able to connect it there as well

and Book button will automatically appear there)

6. Now you will have your services shown on your Facebook page with Book buttons next to them or Book now button under the page banner that will redirect your clients to your booking site.

(the representation options depend on your Facebook business page)

7. You can also add booking option to your Facebook page posts so that the customers will be able to quickly book your services.

How to remove Book button from Facebook/Instagram pages

1. Navigate to Custom Features -> Facebook & Instagram Bookings -> Settings on SimplyBook.me side.

2. Click on Logout at the top of the page.

How to add and use booking option on Instagram only

1. Open your Instagram mobile application and login to your business page.

2. Navigate to your profile and select to edit it.

3. Follow the steps 1-8 below to add Book button that will lead the customers to your booking site:

How to remove Book option from Instagram business page

1. Open your Instagram mobile application and navigate to editing your profile.

Follow the steps 1-5 below to remove Book button:

Call-to-action button for Facebook fan page

1. Go to your Page’s cover photo and click + Add a Button

2. Choose your call-to-action, then select Link to website option and enter the URL for your booking site.

3. Click on Finish and you will get the button Book Now as a result, so that your clients will be able to click on it, go to your booking site and book your services.

Facebook chat bot

Please note! Facebook bot works in English only and provides only basic functionality, so for example payments, client login, memberships, approve bookings, etc. are not working there.
Contact support for more details.

1. Enable Facebook Bot custom feature on your Custom Features page.

2. You will see its settings on the right side of the page

3. Log into the Facebook Developer Console.

4. Click on My Apps in the upper right-hand corner and choose to Add a New App.

5. Enter a name and contact email address and click on Create App ID.

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 Settings -> Basic.

7. Then please click on + near Products on the left-side.

8. Click the Set Up button for the Messenger option.

9. Under the Access Tokens section, choose one of your Facebook business pages or create a new one.

10. Click on Generate token button, check token generation warning and copy the token code.

11. Paste the token into SimplyBook.me Facebook Bot feature settings.

12. Click the Add Callback URL button under the Webhooks section and paste Callback URL and Verify token copied from SimplyBook.me Facebook Bot feature settings.

13. Hit Add subscriptions, select messages and messaging_postbacks in the popup. Save.

14. Proceed to App review section and click on Add to submission in front of pages_messaging API.

15. Scroll down to Current submission section and click on Add details link.

16. In the popup that appears provide the details according to the following example.

Screencast example

17. Submit your app for review.

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.

You can add users here:

19. It may take some time for Facebook to approve your application and your clients will be able to book using the chat bot.

Here you can see how approved request will look like

Facebook widget

How to add SimplyBook.me widget to your Facebook fan page

1.You can add SimplyBook.me functionality to Facebook fan page (only to fan page, it can't be connected to your personal page) in Settings -> Booking widgets settings -> Facebook widget -> Apply & add to facebook -> choose the page to attach Simplybook to.

2. After you connected SimplyBook.me to Facebook fan page, it is listed in the left-side menu of the page under the photo of your company.

You can press Settings -> Templates and tabs and make SimplyBook.me more visible for clients by dragging and dropping it higher in the list.

3. You may need to change the title Simplybook.me appointments to something else. For this, on your Facebook fan page go to Settings(upper bar) -> Templates and tabs -> SimplyBook.me appointments -> Settings -> Edit settings -> Custom tab name.

How to remove Facebook widget from my Facebook page?

On your Facebook fan page go to Settings(upper bar) -> Templates and tabs -> SimplyBook.me appointments -> Settings -> press Off near Simplybook app to remove this tab and save settings.

Facebook widget is not visible from mobiles

Unfortunately, Facebook does not show third-party apps from mobiles. Your clients need to access desktop version to book from Facebook.

I cannot change the email when book from Facebook

When you use Facebook widget, the 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.