How would you like to have a completely free way
of scheduling appointments, scheduling phone
calls with potential clients or current clients right
inside of Facebook, natively?
It's amazing.
And you can use your bot.
Plus it includes reminders.
And you're able to approve or disapprove.
Or you can cancel, or they can cancel.
Or you can send reminders on re-upping
for more appointments.
Ah, so many great use cases.
What up, bot stars?
Kelly Noble Mirabella here with Baby Got Bot.
And in today's video, I'm going to be breaking down
Facebook's brand new appointment-setting
feature within business pages.
And how you can implement this awesome free tool
inside of your messenger bot.
It's banana!
So without further ado, I want you to sit back,
get rid of all the distraction, because we're
going to hop right in.
And I'm going to show you how it's done.
Now, if you don't already have the appointments option that
will show up up here, then you're
going to have to turn it on.
And one of the easiest ways to do that
is go to your Facebook page and go to your Call
to Action button.
Click on that.
And where it says here, Book with you,
click on Book Now and appointments on Facebook.
So now, we're going to walk through the steps here.
The first thing you want to do is select your time zone.
You can click on here if your time zone is not correct
and type in your city.
If it's correct, no worries.
Go in here and pick out the days that you want to be available
and the times.
You can also click on the plus sign and add additional time.
So if you have gaps in your day where you can't take calls,
you can always move to a different gap.
OK, once you're ready, go ahead and click Next.
Now, you can make it to that, you, manually,
will approve appointments before you're confirmed.
You could turn that off if you want it to be automatic.
For advance booking, I would do this.
Open that up and say, when's the soonest that people can book?
Now, I like to make sure people give me a day's notice.
So that's what I'm going to do.
But you have the option of hours, days, or weeks.
And then you want to sync it to your Google Calendar.
I use my Google Calendar for everything.
So I'm going to want to sync that.
So you just select your account, give your permissions.
And that's in pulling all of your calendars here.
And you're going to select the calendar that you
want to use for these events.
Now, down here, Appointment Start Time Display.
How long do you want these appointments to be?
I'm just doing 15 minute calls.
So there you go and next.
Now, we're going to list our services.
So basically, this is how people are scheduling for us.
Now, you could do these for calls, for appointment setting,
for meetings, what have you.
I'm just going to do a free call for about 15 minutes,
like a discovery call.
And this is going to be free.
So I'm not going to put anything.
But you can certainly price this out.
All right.
You put your description and your equipment duration.
I'm going to do 15 minutes.
How much time after?
Now, this won't be people booking for you after.
But this is going to block people
from booking back to back.
So a person A books at 1 o'clock.
And person B wants to book at 1:15, then
that could be kind of troublesome.
What if the call goes over?
So I like to give myself 15 minutes in between times.
And then do we want to show the service?
Yes, if not.
Maybe you don't want to show up for this particular thing.
You turn it off.
You can add an image if you want.
I'm going to skip that for now and see.
So there you go--
15-minute discovery call done.
So here's my calendar.
So you could see all of my appointments here.
So I'm the only one who can see this information.
Then I'm going to go over to my settings again.
And I can grab the link.
So we're going to copy this link.
And then we're going to head over into ManyChat.
And I'm going to the bot here.
And we're going to create a new flow.
And I'm going to call this flow, Schedule a Call.
And then whatever you want to say here at the beginning.
Then you have a button and open the website.
We're going to paste our scheduling link in there--
Native view and done.
And this is what it's going to look like.
So I'm going to go in here.
I'm going to click on Schedule Call.
It's going to pop open the Scheduling Service.
So this is what it looks like for the end user.
It's going to give all the times that I have available.
I can select that time.
I could put in my phone number and any appointment
notes that I want to put in.
And then I can request an appointment.
Now, the requested appointment would actually say,
schedule an appointment if you didn't have it set up
that they have to request.
Now, as an admin, you can go in here.
And you'll see where your appointments are.
And it says, so Kelly, went ahead and requested.
And I can approve.
I can edit.
I can approve with some notes--
what have you.
So I'll go ahead and approve that.
And there you go.
So now I can see right there that it's on my calendar.
Another thing that you could do under your appointment
settings, you can actually go down here.
And we could set up our reminder.
So we have here, send a customer an automatic reminder
via messenger or text the day before their appointment.
I went ahead and said to turn that on.
So it's already taken care of.
So in your messenger bot, you do not
have to even set anything else up.
It's already done.
And it was a seamless experience because it all
stays on Facebook.
Boom, there you have it, my friends.
Now, if you can schedule appointments, and everything
is easy peasy for your end user.
I mean, what's not to love about free appointment setting
software?
Am I right?
Yes, yes.
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