As a PRO user, you have access to the Gift Card store at a separate address and in addition you can activate the Buy Gift Card -section to your online booking page as part of your services. More instructions on activating the gift card store, adding it to social media and where to find the addresses which will be added can be found at the end of this page.
Selling gift cards on social media:
The Book Now- button is available to all Book Salon users. If you have activated self-service gift card store, your customers may also buy a gift card from the Book Now -function. That is when your gift card store is showed as a part of your services on online booking page.
Note! Facebook lets you only have one action button active, if you don’t want the Book Now button, you can add an action prompt to view a gift card on social media.
Here are the instructions:
1.Open the "Tools" page in the professional control panel at: pro.booksalon.com and copy the short address of your gift card store.
2. Go to your company's Facebook page at https://business.facebook.com/ and there to the Facebook page of the salon or company you are administrating.
3.Click on the blue "+ Add button" button as shown below, or if you have already added a button, click on the gray "Edit"-button and select "Edit action button" from the drop-down menu.
4. The selection screen will open, from which you select "View gift card".
5. Next, you will be asked for the address of the gift card shop. Here paste the copied link at the beginning, first click the "website" checkbox and then use CTRL + V on a Windows computer or Command (cmd) + V on a Mac.
6. Press "Save" and then "Done" on the next page.
7. You can test the functionality of the button by clicking the "Edit xxx" button and select "Test Button" from the drop-down menu.
Congratulations! In the future, your customers will be able to buy gift cards through the button.
Activate gift card sales as part of the online booking:
If you want the customer to be able to buy gift cards from your online booking, you must activate the function on the Settings -page.
1. The administrator accesses the salon's online payment settings.
2. Activate the self-service sales of gift cards to customers when in booking
"Enable online gift card sales in the salon's booking system."