If your business operates across multiple physical locations, managing appointments can quickly become a logistical nightmare. The Bookly Locations (Add-on) is designed to streamline this complexity, allowing you to seamlessly integrate multiple service centers, offices, or branches into your existing Bookly booking system. By empowering your customers to choose their preferred location during the booking process, you enhance user experience while maintaining organized, centralized management for your entire operation.
Key Features
- Multi-Location Support: Easily add and manage an unlimited number of locations within your WordPress dashboard, ensuring your booking form reflects your actual business footprint.
- Location-Specific Services: Assign specific services to individual locations, ensuring customers only see options available at their chosen branch.
- Staff Assignment: Associate specific staff members with one or more locations, automatically filtering available personnel based on where they are scheduled to work.
- Customizable Booking Form: Allow customers to select their preferred location as the first step in the booking flow, providing a clear and intuitive user journey.
- Centralized Management: View and manage all appointments across all locations from a single, unified Bookly calendar, saving you from toggling between different systems.
- Automated Notifications: Configure email and SMS notifications to include location details, ensuring both staff and clients have the correct address for every appointment.
- Location-Based Reporting: Gain insights into the performance of individual branches, helping you make data-driven decisions about your business expansion and resource allocation.
Use Cases / Who It’s For
The Bookly Locations (Add-on) is the ideal solution for any business that provides services at multiple physical addresses. If you run a chain of hair salons, a network of medical or dental clinics, a group of fitness studios, or a professional consultancy with offices in different cities, this add-on is built for you.
For business owners, this tool eliminates the need for maintaining separate booking websites for each branch. It prevents scheduling conflicts by ensuring that staff are only booked for services at locations where they are physically present. For your customers, it provides a professional, friction-free experience where they can easily find the nearest office and book a service without confusion. By consolidating your operations, you reduce administrative overhead and minimize the risk of human error in your scheduling process.
Setup / How It Works
- Installation: Ensure you have the core Bookly plugin installed and activated on your WordPress site. Install and activate the Bookly Locations (Add-on) just like any other WordPress plugin.
- Define Locations: Navigate to the new Locations tab within the Bookly settings menu to add your business branches, including their names, addresses, and any other relevant contact details.
- Map Resources: Edit your existing services and staff profiles to assign them to the appropriate locations. This step ensures that the booking form only displays relevant combinations to your customers.
- Configure the Booking Form: Update your Bookly booking form settings to include the location selection step. You can choose to make this mandatory, ensuring every booking is tied to a specific site.
- Review and Launch: Test your booking flow from the customer perspective to confirm that the location selection correctly filters the available services and staff, then save your settings to go live.