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Do you need information from your clients upon booking? With this custom feature you can ask your clients obligatory or non-mandatory questions or offer them to leave a comment. This helps providers to be prepared and perform their job even better.

Examples of intake forms could be the following:

• a doctor may want to add a birthdate field and an obligatory treatment consent checkbox;
• a private language tutor would like the client to select his current knowledge level in a drop-down menu.

But if you want to provide some additional treatment during a service, and charge for it, for example, add a styling after a haircut then you can try our Service Add-ons feature.

All intakes forms' answers will be displayed in each booking details both in admin Calendar interface and in the detailed booking report. You can also add them to booking notification messages, sent to client and provider.

For more details, check out our Help Center article on Intake Forms feature.

Do you want to keep your booking website and your social images dynamic and fresh? With the Instagram photo-sharing feature, you can upload pictures to your Insta account and those images will automatically appear on your booking website. Handy, when a picture says a 1000 words.

Using the Instagram photo-sharing feature doesn't require any special efforts. You just login into your Insta account and all the rest is processed automatically. If you already have too many posts on your Instagram account, you can set how many images to display per page on your booking website. For more details of how this feature works, you can look at our Help Center.

There are various Marketing tools in the system designed to help you to promote your business and "Reviews" is one of them.

Everybody knows that positive word of mouth is the best marketing measure out there, and that's where reviews come in. The system allows you to collect your clients' reviews and show them on your booking website.

SimplyBook.me can send automatic emails to your customers after the service has taken place requesting feedback from them. Simply configure the text of the email and the number of times you would like to send it. This feedback is published on your booking site as a review, giving you valuable social proof.

If you do not use our Client login feature, and merely ask clients to provide email or phone number to book online, we'll ensure that people cannot post random reviews. Customers will be asked to use their Google, Facebook or Twitter accounts for identification.

On top of that, your company can be listed in our Booking.page directory, including all the positive reviews. Your customer feedback will be indexed by search robots which should help you to attract new clientele.

Make the most of each client by selling them relevant products upon booking. They will love to get a corresponding product suggestion from you, and you will increase your sales. By allowing your clients to select a product to buy during the booking process, you only have the best part left when they show up. After nurturing your clients throughout their service, you can hand them the product they already bought.
How will it work? When your clients are booking the services, you will offer them the option to add relevant products to their purchase. Every product they purchase will be listed clearly on their invoice, which you'll be able to see later on the Sales report, in the admin interface. Appointment details on the admin calendar will also contain products purchased with this booking.
You can also sell products directly on your booking website, allowing clients to purchase them without going through the booking process.
See details of Products feature and how it works along with other SimplyBook.me custom features here in our Help Center.

If you are selling services and products, this feature is a must-have.
It allows you to collect payments upfront, upon booking, so you and your client don't have to worry about payment after the service is over. Incurring payments beforehand has been proven to reduce no-shows significantly.

You can accept payments via popular online payment processors such as Stripe, PayPal, and Square. Look at our full list of payment providers.
Even if you only accept offline payments such as cash or wire transfers, adding prices to your services allows you to better keep track of your business. You can monitor your most profitable services, analyse your company's productivity and play with other interesting KPIs.

Accept payment feature is also important if you want to use other custom features to enhance your business such as organise sales campaigns, sell gift cards and memberships, offer your clients to purchase related products upon bookings and more. Please check our tutorial here on how to set it up.

The deposit feature gives you the ability to ask your clients to pay part of the service price upfront during the online booking process.
This feature is useful as deposits have been shown to decrease no-shows considerably.

The Deposit feature is quite flexible: your clients can choose whether they pay the deposit only or the full price. Also, you can select which services require full payment upfront and which ones only need a deposit to be bookable. You can accept deposits using online payment systems or some “offline payments” such as wire transfer or cash. In offline cases, you or your employees need to verify the deposit payment receipt, and then a manual approval is necessary within the admin interface.

What does the deposit payment look like in your payment transactions report? When a client pays the deposit, the system will create two invoices: one for the deposit and a second one for the remainder, it will display as a pending invoice (offer) until the client pays onsite and you manually approve it.

Please note that some clients may contact their bank directly to get a refund of the deposit payment - in those rare cases you can do nothing.

The Client app is available for all paying SimplyBook.me users who use the client login feature. If you have a premium subscription, you can personalise it with your business logo and brand colours. Ask your clients to access your booking website on a mobile device, and from there you can invite them to download the app on their mobile.

It’s as simple as that!With the client app, your clients can:

• Book, reschedule and cancel appointments
• See upcoming bookings, booking history and past invoices
• Purchase packages, gift cards and memberships
• Access tickets online/offline (if you issue tickets)
• See company information
• See contact details: phone number, email address and location
• Get push notifications for booking confirmations, reminders and changes (Android only)
• Edit their profile information

Please note:

• Only users with the "Client login" custom feature can offer their clients the app because users will need to identify themselves with their login details before entering the app.
• iOS clients (iPhone + iPad) will need to use the Safari browser when visiting your booking website on their mobile; otherwise, the page will not invite them to download the app.
• iOS clients will not receive push notifications via the app.

Read more about the client app here

The Loyalty system will allow you to strengthen the relationship with your clients! The way it works is that your clients will earn specific amounts of points with each purchased service. They can then redeem those points for a gift card with your business which they can in turn use to purchase your services.

You can also allocate some extra loyalty points to your favourite client, and your clients can log in at all times to see the status of their accumulated points. See the video here to see how it works.