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Category Archives: Integration

Announcing BookingBug’s Dropbox Integration

We’ve had lots of requests from the BookingBug community for document upload functionality within BookingBug, so today we’re pleased to announce our integration with Dropbox to do just that. Dropbox is a great tool for businesses wishing to store documents securely in the cloud and access them instantly from any mobile device.

Take card payments on the move with BookingBug & iZettle

We are delighted to announce our partnership with European social payments provider iZettle to enable BookingBug users to securely take card payments on the move through an iPhone or iPad.

Announcing Our New WordPress Plug-in: Version 2.2

We’re very excited to be announcing our new WordPress plugin, making it easier than ever for you to add a completely customized booking widget to any WordPress site. BookingBug 2.2 for WordPress now gives you a customizable WordPress short code, giving you endless, advanced options when it comes to size, style, colour and design of a booking widget on your WordPress site, blog or post.

Better customer communication with MailChimp

Here at BookingBug we know that generating repeat business from your customers is just as important as attracting new ones. That’s why we offer a variety of tools to help you communicate with your customers to keep them coming back for more! One of our favourite tools for this is MailChimp, the online email marketing [...]

Everyone’s talking about Facebook commerce

We’ve seen a lot online recently about the merits (and pitfalls) of selling through Facebook (f-commerce), so we thought we’d put together a round-up of some of the more interesting things we’ve come across.

Hurray! We’re now fully integrated with Xero

We’re pleased to announce we are now a fully fledged add-on partner of excellent web-based accounting platform Xero.

Announcing better client communications with SMS

We’re pleased to announce we have integrated with Twilio, specialists in advanced pay-as-you-go telecoms technology. This means that from today you can register your business for its very own dedicated SMS number so that your clients will always know that updates and reminders are coming from you. You can also enable replies so your clients can respond directly back to you with questions or queries they have. You’ll be informed of all responses by email notification and can then choose to reply by phone, email or text.

BookingBug partner Rapportive announces acquisition by LinkedIn

Congratulations to our friends over at Rapportive who have just confirmed their acquisition by professional networking beast LinkedIn for a tasty $15 million.

UK Villages and BookingBug

Too few of today’s local business directory sites offer the opportunity to book the service you’re looking for directly on the site, the majority of bookings still take place over the phone. Today, we’re happy to announce an integration with UK Villages, a national and local community directory website for the UK, offering people a way [...]

BookingBug integration with Gmail through Rapportive

Hey everyone – Starting today we have integration with Gmail through Rapportive; “A free browser plugin (available as both a Firefox add-on and as a Chrome extension) that replaces the adverts in Gmail’s sidebar with useful information about your contacts: : a photo, bio and links to social media accounts (Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, etc).” After [...]