Product & Feature

Reserve with Meta: get bookings via Facebook and Instagram

TIMIFY
By TIMIFY
06 July, 2022

TIMIFY has launched new integration with Meta’s Facebook Business Accounts, bringing one-click online booking to your social media audience.

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Businesses know that modern consumers spend hours on social media and often undertake much of their research and opinion-forming about products and services found within.

As a result, companies spend time and money being active in social media, creating all type of content to engage their audiences.

However, if your business depends on bookings, to make the most of your social media profiles, there’s no better way than integrate online booking directly on FB and Instagram. TIMIFY, has created the Reserve with Meta app so you can easily start getting bookings through the Meta family of apps.
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How a TIMIFY-Meta integration benefits your business

Activating the Reserve with Meta app, will give greater visibility to your business bookable services and help their accessibility, creating a lucrative new channel for receiving bookings.

The huge potential is not just around this seamless way to book your services, but also in building and optimising your social media activity to engage and inspire your customers and leads into a long-term relationship.
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How Customer bookings from Facebook and Instagram works

Once the integration is set up, you can add the Online Booking Button for your services to the following locations:

1. Your Facebook business profile page

Customers or leads landing on your Facebook Business profile page see online booking alongside your business details, contact information and service listings.

2. A Featured Services Card, which lists your top services alongside a booking button

Showcase your chosen services, alongside the ability to book instantly, in a component which can be placed across multiple pages on your Facebook account.

3. Your Instagram profile page, just under the business information section

Any customer or client landing on your Instagram profile page is presented with all the essential information, contact details, services and now, a booking button.

4. Individual Facebook posts

Every time you make a post (or schedule a future post) about a service or event, include the booking button directly in the post. Any customers inspired by the post have the quickest and easiest way to make a booking on impulse.


Essentially this means that, wherever and whenever a potential customer is interacting with your business via Facebook or Instagram, creating a new booking is just a few clicks away.
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Bookings automatically added to your calendar

Any online bookings received through the Meta integration will instantly be synced to your TIMIFY calendar, avoiding any booking clashes from other booking touch-points across your business, while automatically reserving staff, rooms and resources where required, according to your TIMIFY set up.
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Track social media performance

Another benefit of this integration is that you can track the performance of your social media campaigns through the TIMIFY Statistic Dashboard.

These crucial insights will help plan future strategies around posts or campaigns to optimise performance.

To activate Facebook tracking, you will need to adjust the set-up in your TIMIFY calendar. Read this article for step-by-step instructions on how to track conversions from Facebook.

Start using it today

The Reserve with Meta integration is already live, so you can set it up and start getting instant bookings directly from your social media audience in no time.

TIMIFY Premium and Enterprise customers can find the app through the app module in the calendar menu, where we have made it simple to connect your TIMIFY and Meta accounts and start setting up which services can be promoted and booked from your social media pages.

If you don’t have a Premium or Enterprise account, start the 14-day trial and you’ll be able to test the Reserve with Meta app as part of your trial package.

This article TIMIFY App: Reserve with META takes you through the set-up step-by-step.

You can also visit the Facebook Partner Vendor List and click on the TIMIFY logo to connect your accounts.

If you have any questions regarding the new Meta integration, please do not hesitate to get in touch by filling up this contact form. You can also initiate a chat with one of our representatives by clicking the red button on the right-hand side of the website. 

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About the author

TIMIFY

TIMIFY is a global leader in scheduling and resource management software-as-a-service (Saas). It is known for its sophisticated, secure, and customisable enterprise-focused technology.  

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