When integrating the booking pages in your app, platform or website, you can add data in the URL to improve the customer experience.
Example: Someone is logged in on your platform and you know the First Name, Last Name, email and phone number. Or someone entered this information in a form on your website and is transferred to the booking page.
When that person needs to re-enter the information in the booking fields, it might feel cumbersome for the user.
You can add all standard fields as parameters in the url:
First Name
Last Name
Email
Company
Phone
Custom questions (more info below the image)
Start & End date (more info below custom questions)
Example:
This results in:
Pre-fill custom questions on your booking page
If you add custom questions other than company name and telephone number to your booking page, you can also pre-fill them in the parameters of the URL. You can do this by adding ?cq1=answer.
Important!
The order of the custom questions is defined in the appointment type in scheduling
Add the number of the question: cq1 will answer the first custom question, cq2 the second, ...
cq should be in lower case letters
For spaces in the answer you can use '+'. (eg. cq1=online+meetings+in+vectera)
If you have multiple custom questions you can create the link as following
?cq1=answer&cq2=answer&cq3=answer
It's also possible to combine 'other' custom questions with 'phone' and 'company'
?company=answer&cq2=answer&phone=answer
Example: You have an appointment type with the following custom questions
You can pre-fill the answers as following:
Add a start and end date as a parameter in the booking link
When creating an appointment type in Scheduling, you are able to set a start and end date when people can book an appointment (eg. image below).
However, if you haven't set up a start and end date or you want a more specific start and end date in the existing one, you can add a parameter to the booking link that you send!
Parameters to add:
Start date: ?startDate=yyyy-mm-dd
End date: ?endDate=yyyy-mm-dd
Both:?startDate=yyyy-mm-dd&endDate=yyyy-mm-dd
Eg. If I want my client to book a meeting between the 10th of February and the first of March, I will send the booking link as https://vectera.com/book/team-name/t/online-meeting/?startDate=2021-02-10&endDate=2021-03-01.
If you have set up a start and end date in your appointment type and want to add a different start and end date in your booking URL parameters, make sure that the following steps are correct:
The start date parameter should be after the start date in the appointment type settings.
The end date parameter should be before the end date in the appointment type settings.
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