Lesson 32

Get found and get booked

Your booking link, Showcase page and QR codes

You have two links, not one, and they are for different people. Everything else is a way of putting one of them somewhere.

3 min read · Owner · Getting set up
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Petboost gives you two public links. The showcase page is a full page about your business: who you are, what you do, what it costs. The booking link goes straight to the form.

On the showcase page, booking is one field. A visitor types their mobile number and goes on to the form, and the field stays in view as they scroll: in a card beside the page on a computer, in a bar along the bottom on a phone.

Send a stranger the showcase page. Send a regular the booking link. Getting that backwards is the commonest reason a link "doesn't work" for somebody.

Build the page before you hand out the link

The showcase editor is a list of sections down one side and a live preview down the other. Each section is a switch.

  1. Open Your Booking Page and select Open the editor.
  2. Switch off each section you do not want on the page.
  3. Under Services, switch Quick Estimate and Most booked on or off.
  4. Select Publish, which counts your changes.

Hero and Services are always shown. The rest are yours to turn off, and Services carries two extras: Quick Estimate, the weight buttons above your list, and Most booked, the Popular pill above your list.

Check

The preview beside the list is the real page, not a mock-up, and it changes as you switch. Nothing changes for your clients until you select Publish.

Put both buttons on your website

Website buttons generates the HTML for a pair of buttons, styled to your site rather than to ours.

  1. Open Your Booking Page, then Quick Copy Links, and select Website Buttons.
  2. Set Button colour, Corners and Font used on your website to match your site.
  3. Select Copy HTML, then paste it into a code block on your website.

Book now goes to the showcase page, Existing Clients to the booking form.

Tip

If your website builder has no code block, use the plain showcase link on a normal button. The generated HTML is a convenience, not a requirement.

The printed card, the flyer and the booking page all take your logo from Logo Suite on Branding, and one image is enough.

  1. Open Branding.
  2. Under Logo Suite, select Smart upload and upload one image.
  3. To upload or replace one file yourself, select Upload each format, then Upload SVG or Upload PNG under Square Logo or Horizontal Logo.
  4. Under Hero Background Image, select Upload Hero Background Image for the large photo at the top of your booking page, with your gallery photos beside it.

Smart upload removes the background and makes the square and the horizontal logo, each as a PNG and an SVG. The square one is for profile pictures, icons and map pins, the horizontal one for headers, invoices and emails. Each logo reads Set once it has both formats. A suite that already has a logo opens on Upload each format.

Print Materials builds print-ready PDFs from your logo, colours, font and services, each carrying a QR code.

  1. Open Branding.
  2. Under Print Materials, select QR Booking Card or Create a Flyer, and download the PDF it builds.

A QR Booking Card is counter-sized. Create a Flyer makes one for a noticeboard or a letterbox. Both point at the showcase page, which is the right landing spot for someone who has never booked with you.

Tip

Test the QR with your own phone before you print a hundred. It is the same link, so if the showcase page is not published yet the card is a dead end.