To add a booking widget to your website, copy your booking box's code from Papalocal. It's in Rentals, under Online booking, then Put it on your website. In your website's editor, add a block that takes code, often called Embed or HTML. Paste it in and publish. Customers see your rentals, the open days and the price.
Step by step
Before you start: you need your rental company on Papalocal and a website whose pages you can edit. Open online booking: the checklist covers the rest of the setup.
0:00Find the code. In Rentals, open Online booking, then go down to Put it on your website.
0:10Paste it on your site. In your website's editor, add a block that takes code, often called Embed or HTML. Paste the code in, then publish the page.
0:20Check your page. Your booking box is on your own page: your rentals, the open days and the price, booked straight into Papalocal.
0:28Get a new code if you need one. If the code ends up somewhere it shouldn't, click Get a new code. The old one stops working, so paste the new one on your site.
Good to know
It goes where your old form was. Paste it where you want the booking form. The screen says that's your booking page, in place of the old form.
A link works too. Under the code is your booking page's link. Share it from your Google Business Profile's Book button or in a text.
The block's name depends on your website. Look for a block that takes code. Many editors call it Embed or HTML.
A new code means pasting again. After Get a new code, the old code stops working. Paste the new one wherever the old one was.
Pinewood Party Rentals and the website in the video are made up, and so is its editor.
Written with AI from this video's script and screens.
The booking box is one part of running your rental company on Papalocal.
The everything app. As simple as you want it, or as complete as you allow it to be.
Your customer list: each lead and customer, with their quotes and jobs on one page
Quotes, jobs and schedule
Invoices and pay links
Your website, on a domain you own
Google Business Profile sync, for your first location
Reviews: links, QR codes and an embed
Time clock, team chat and training
The same account holds your own side too: music, books, messages, your money and your people. Some of it has paid upgrades.
Free to sign up, no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them.
Once you turn the plan on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee. It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Papalocal's founder, Garret Merkley, has started 7 local service businesses in 16 years. He bought one, sold one and closed some.
No. Keep the website you have and paste the booking box into it.
How do I embed a booking calendar on my website?
Paste the booking box's code into a block that takes code, then publish. When a customer adds a rental, the box shows the calendar of open days.
What if someone copies my code?
Click Get a new code. The old one stops working, so paste the new one on your site.
Where do the bookings go?
Straight into Papalocal, as the video shows.
Can I share a link instead of pasting code?
Yes. Under the code is your booking page's link, for your Google Business Profile's Book button or a text.
What does it cost?
It's free to sign up, with no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them. The plan starts only when you turn it on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee.
How is it billed, and can I cancel?
It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Will Papalocal find me customers?
No. Papalocal gives you the tools. Finding customers is your work.
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