This message was added Thursday 30th November 2023
Booking Systems Shoulder the Load
Time is precious when you’re running a business. Getting the right booking system to help you run your business helps to make use of such a limited resource as time, improving your own efficiency, speeding up your administration and boosting your relationships with customers. Going digital, automating commonly used operational steps and reducing duplication is key to how tapping into the power of booking systems can work to save your valuable time.
Booking systems attached to your website handle so many small repetitious details. They can streamline your administration processes, whether they are dealing with customers, taking money, or taking bookings and adding them to your calendar, or linking every job to all the relevant customer and invoice information. Best of all, they avoid the piling on of more administration as your business expands. In fact, our business booking systems can enable a paperless existence for many businesses. Just think of the saving in storage, business machines, printing and paper costs, plus the advantages of online data security and no folders to archive! The ease of communicating with your team is just one other advantage, with individual password protected log-ins, each member sees what they need, and everyone can be kept up to the minute, in the loop.
Get Rid of Repetition!
So stop wasting paid time and wasting energy in repetitious tasks. Telephone conversations, emails, making appointments, adding details to the database, are all activities where mistakes can creep in, details can get lost, human error can lose a sale. Staff can diversify their jobs, and do more productive things, without all these irritations, with the help of a booking system!
Convenience - and No Lost Bookings!
One of the best things about a booking system is the fact that it’s ’on duty’ automatically, 24/7 rather than just between 9-5pm. You don’t need to employ a staff member or cover holidays, sickness or distractions. You just keep an eye on your booking system for updates and this can be done on your Smartphone, or tablet, not just the office computer. Customers can browse your website, book everything they need to online, any time of day or night, capturing those bookings made on the spur of the moment. Money (deposits or full price) can be taken online, going straight into your account, immediately. This stops you losing sales, too.
Never Forgetting Appointments
Booking systems automate appointments, reminders and acknowledgements via email, or SMS. So just checking your phone will ensure that you know what is happening or where you’re going and when in real time, keeping customers (and staff) completely in the loop, with reminders for them also.
Reporting and Analysis
If you are wondering how your business strategy is working, you can tap into your business insights with the invaluable reporting functions attached to your booking system. Having a look at your customer data, revenue and appointment patterns now and then can help you make the most of opportunities, and waste less energy on avenues that aren’t making so much money.
A bespoke booking system doesn’t waste your money; on the contrary, the money you spend on it will be recouped within a short time in terms of time and materials saved. Paperless systems save on equipment; and if everything is accessible 24/7 on your phone, you can make the most of your resources.
Call us, for perfectly designed booking system, tailored to your exact needs, today!
We can demonstrate to you how your booking system saves you time, helps you boost your business, keep in great contact with all your customers, and best of all, keeps accurate records, saving time on accounting, at the end of the month.