If you are creating a new online store with Booqable, or plan to integrate Booqable with an existing website, setting up your online store preferences is an essential first step.
Keep reading the article below to learn how to customize a range of online store preferences to set up your website to run the best way possible for your rental business.
How it works
Head over to Settings > Online bookings > Preferences in your Booqable account to customize the reservation process so that it feels completely at home on your website and fits your company perfectly.
1. Customer accounts
Choose to enable or disable customer accounts so your customers can login to your online store, save their information to make checkout quicker or require an account to browse your online store.
Learn more about in the following article: How to enable customer accounts.
2. Availability
Set up real-time availability to either prevent or allow over-bookings.
Disabling availability can be useful if you don't want people to see how many items you have in stock, or want to accept an order regardless of availability. That way you can either purchase more items, or contact your customers to do an up-sell.
If enabled, your customers can only place an order when all items in their cart are available for the requested period. When the checkout is completed, Booqable reserves the items on the order.
When disabled, the availability of items is not displayed, and your customers can always check out their cart, regardless of availability. The order is added to Booqable as a concept order and you'll need to reserve the items yourself.
3. Last-minute reservations
If you need some time before customers come to pick up their items, you can set a minimum notice for reservations.
4. Add to cart button
Add to cart button can be used to either add products to cart or to allow customers to proceed directly to the checkout.
The latter method is used when only one product is being offered on the website, or to promote 'one product at a time' workflow.
5. Coupon codes
Choose to enable or disable coupon codes for your customers. Check the box to allow customers to redeem a coupon code to receive a discount.
If this setting is left unchecked, customers won’t be able to use coupon codes in your online store. However, you can still apply coupons manually from the back end when creating or managing orders.
6. Branding
To change the color scheme to suit your brand, enter your color code under brand color, or choose one of the preset colors.
The color you choose will affect a number of items, like the shopping cart, add-to-cart buttons, and the checkout page.
💡Note: Don't know you color code? Use this website or one like it to get color codes from an image.
7. Favicon
Upload a favicon for your website. It will be visible in the browser tab and in Google search results.
8. Sorting
You can choose how your products and collections are sorted when a customer first visits your online store.
9. Show prices
You can change the way prices are displayed online, or hide prices completely to let customer request a quote, for example.
Read more about online pricing
10. Custom domain
When you enable Online bookings, your online store is available through booqable.store by default. Your URL will look like this: https://example.booqable.store/
Do you own a custom domain? You can connect a custom domain to access your Booqable Store with your branded website address.
11. Online store status
Here you can choose if you want to accept online bookings, and if you want the Booqable hosted store to be visible.
If you disable the hosted store, you can still accept online bookings by adding Booqable to your website. This can also be considered as unpublishing your website.
