Online Booking System for Facebook and Instagram: Reserve with Meta

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. The process of connecting your accounts is simple, and once connected, your audience can enjoy seamless booking experiences. Integrating booking with social media channels like Facebook and Instagram helps businesses reach more potential clients by making it easy for users to book directly from their favorite platforms. TIMIFY, has created the Reserve with Meta app so you can easily start getting bookings through the Meta family of apps.

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. This integration can boost engagement on your social media platforms, driving more bookings and increasing sales by making it easier for customers to take action directly from your posts.

The huge potential is not just around this seamless way to book your services, but also in providing an easy booking experience for your customers, encouraging more bookings. Additionally, building and optimising your social media activity can further engage and inspire your customers and leads into a long-term relationship.

How Customer bookings from Facebook and Instagram works

Once the integration is set up, customers can book appointments and accept bookings directly from your Facebook and Instagram profiles. This integration allows clients to book directly, streamlining scheduling and appointment management for your business. You can easily manage all appointments and bookings through the connected platform.

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 page—along with your Facebook page —can use these as booking channels for clients, seeing online booking alongside your business details, contact information and service listings.

This integration with your business page makes it easier for clients to find and book your services directly through your social media presence.

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.

This feature helps fill your appointment calendar more efficiently by making it easy for customers to see open slots and schedule directly.

3. Your Instagram profile page, just under the business

information section

Any customer or client landing on your Instagram profile page—whether it's an Instagram account, Instagram business account, or Instagram business 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—this can be done by using the Facebook booking button within your social posts and ads. 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.

Bookings automatically added to your calendar

Any online bookings received through the Meta integration, using the dedicated booking tool that provides customers with access to real-time scheduling features, 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.

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 Instagram 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. For more details, see our guide on the TIMIFY App: Reserve with META on a local level.

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.