Google is introducing a new booking button for Google My Business pages, enabling businesses to accept bookings directly through GMB.
"Booking buttons can help your business stand out from the crowd," Google highlights, underscoring the benefits of online bookings.
The booking button allows customers to make reservations in under a minute, potentially leading to an increase in customer acquisition due to the streamlined booking process.
In the Google My Business interface, administrators can monitor the number of bookings made directly via the GMB dashboard.
Supported booking providers currently include:
- Appointy
- Bookatable
- Booksy
- Full Slate
- Genbook
- Mindbody
- Mytime
- Pike13
- Rosy
- SalonRunner
- Setmore
- Shore
- Supersalon software
- Wellnessliving
- Yocale
How to Set Up the Booking Button
Setting up the Google My Business booking button involves a simple two-step process.
Step 1
If you already have an account with one of the supported service providers listed above, a booking button has been added to your GMB listing. Google will prompt you to sign up with a supported service provider if you do not have an account.
Step 2
Once you have signed up with a supported service provider, you can expect to see the booking button on your GMB listing within a few days.
Google’s new booking button for Google My Business will be available to businesses in the US in the coming days, with plans to expand this feature to additional countries and business categories in the future.
