The Booking Page: A Guide to Personalizing and Sharing Your Booking Page

To establish an appealing external facing booking page, customization is key. Once your booking page is tailor-made and ready for the world to see, individuals can conveniently schedule appointments with you.

How to Customize Your Booking Page

To customize your booking page, simply sign in to microsoft365.com, proceed to the “Bookings” section, and click on “Booking page”. With a variety of options at your fingertips, you can effortlessly transform your booking page to suit your preferences. Once you’ve completed the customization, don’t forget to publish it so that people can start booking appointments with you.

Watch: How to Customize and Publish Your Booking Page

Steps to Set Up Your Booking Page

Follow the steps below to set up your booking page effectively:

1. Access Microsoft 365, click on the app launcher, and select “Bookings”.
2. Choose your desired calendar.
3. In the left-hand navigation pane, click on “Booking page”.

Configuring Your Booking Page

Let’s explore the different ways you can customize your booking page:

• Configure booking page: Make your services bookable by publishing your calendar live. Share your calendar’s link via email, Twitter, or by embedding it on your organization’s website. You can also add a “Book Now” button to your Facebook page. This easy accessibility ensures greater exposure and encourages more bookings. Moreover, you have complete control over how your internal Booking Page looks.

• Booking page access control: Require a Microsoft 365 account from my organization to book: By enabling this option, only individuals within your organization can view and book your services. Access to the booking page will be granted through credential checks, ensuring visitors are part of the same tenant.

• Booking page access control: Disable direct search engine indexing of booking page: If you wish to limit access to your page, you can select this setting. It prevents search engines like Google and Bing from displaying your page in their search results. Only users with the generated page link will be able to visit it.

• Customer data usage consent: Provide transparency by requesting consent from users or customers to use their data. By checking a box, users grant permission for your organization to process their data, thus completing the booking process.

• Scheduling policy, Email notifications, and Staff: These settings mirror the options available for each service on the Services tab. Feel free to configure them based on your requirements.

• Availability: If you have specific time and date ranges when your services are available, you can set them using this option. Otherwise, Bookings will default to your business hours. This flexibility allows you to account for holidays or extended hours.

• Customize your page: Maintain brand consistency by selecting colors and logos that will appear on the Self-Service page. This enables customers to easily identify and associate your brand with the booking process.

• Region and time zone settings: Set your preferred time zone and language for the Self-Service page. We recommend choosing your local time zone. Bookings automatically detects the time zone of visitors to your Self-Service page, displaying appointment availability in their respective time zones. For example, if an appointment is available at 1:00pm PST, someone in CST will see it as 3:00pm CST.

Once you’ve personalized and published your booking page, customers will have access to a professional and user-friendly platform where they can conveniently book appointments with you.

Unpublishing the Booking Page

Should you wish to temporarily remove your booking page, simply navigate to the Booking page and click on “Unpublish”.

Revamp your booking page today, and provide an outstanding experience for your customers while streamlining appointment scheduling.