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Yearly Archives: 2011

Mary Portas’ review of the future of our High Streets: Ignores ecommerce and service-based business

Mary Portas has released her long-awaited review of the state of our High Streets, but where is the discussion around the benefits of a well thought through online-offline strategy? Where is the nod to the potential value of supporting the many service-based organisations that are at the heart of our towns?

Taking online payments with CardSave

Today we’re happy to announce that we integrate with CardSave. Cardsave is a member of the WorldPay Group, the UK’s largest card processor*. Our merchants now benefit from the best of both worlds. Read more. To take online payments with CardSave; log in to BookingBug, go to ‘Account’ – ‘Advanced’ – ‘Payment.’ If you currently [...]

See your customers’ purchase history

You can now view a list of your customers’ purchased items in BookingBug by viewing your customers’ details. You will be able to see the item booked, the date and time booked for, the duration of the service/event, and the price paid. You can see a list of the customers’ purchased items by following these [...]

Display your courses/events in the widget even though it’s fully booked. Go to ‘Account,’ ‘Settings’ and ‘Widget Settings.’ #TopTipTuesday

Don’t hide those fully booked courses in your widget

Bluefields.com partners with BookingBug to provide customisable sports booking and availabilty platform

Bluefields.com, in conjunction with BookingBug, is excited to announce the launch of Bluefields Booking, a customisable online and mobile booking solution aimed at sports centres and organisations which provide sports facilities for hire. The project, a collaboration between two young tech companies, unites the sports-tech specialised Bluefields.com with Booking Bug whose focus is on sharing [...]

BookingBug announces a suite of products to bring salons right up to date

Throw out your appointment book! Experience BookingBug from your iPad or Android tablet and manage your business from anywhere. Come and see BookingBug in action on an iPad, Android tablet or laptop at Salon International (stand N105). Take part in our ‘Style a Bug’ competition for the change to win your very own tablet and 6 [...]

Featured Customer: Horgis School of Motoring

Who: Horgis School of Motoring – http://www.horgis.co.uk/ What: Driving lessons Warrington from a top grade driving instructor in Warrington. Low cost start deals for beginners, High Pass rate, Horgis School of Motoring Warrington offers you so much more… Where: Lessons in Warrington, Woolston, Paddington, Bruche, Orford, Longford, Dallam, Padgate, Birchwood, Latchford, Stockton Heath, Appleton, Grappenhall, [...]

A quick chat with our CEO Glenn Shoosmith

“BookingBug is an online reservation and booking system which allows businesses to seamlessly integrate a calendar and booking system into their existing web platform; tipped for success by the Daily Telegraph, TechCrunch and Wired amongst others, we were keen to talk to Glenn Shoosmith, Founder and CEO, about why they’ve set up in Tech City, [...]

“Allow Mixed Bookings” In Deal Settings

‘Allow mixed bookings’ so a customer can enter more than one deal code This allows customers to redeem multiple deal codes and book multiple spaces on an event. In order to enter more than one deal code, your event must be configured so ‘max bookings’ is more than one. This will determine the maximum number [...]

New Widgets

Previously, when a business wanted to have a break in the middle of their schedule, it had to be equal to their appointment duration (having one hour appointments meant you had to have a one hour break). We’ve made things much simpler, and now you can be more flexible with your breaks. To have custom [...]