To share your booking page link, open your Rentals page in Papalocal. Find Put booking on your website and tap Get the code. Under the code is the link to your own booking page. Copy it into a text to a customer, or anywhere people look for you. You don't need a website of your own.
Step by step
Before you start: you need your rental company on Papalocal with online booking open. Open online booking: the checklist shows the steps.
0:00Open the code. On your Rentals page, find Put booking on your website and tap Get the code.
0:08Find the link. It's under the code. Its label reads Your booking page link: share it in texts, emails and on your Google listing.
0:12Copy it. Select the link and copy it. Paste it into a text to a customer, or anywhere people look for you.
0:18See it as a customer does. Tap Open your booking page.
0:23Try it on a phone. It's the same page. They put in their ZIP, add what they want, and the calendar shows the days that are open.
Good to know
The address is on papalocal.com. It's papalocal.com/book/ followed by your business's short name, the one in your business page's web address.
ZIP first. The page asks for a ZIP code, so it shows the rentals you can deliver there and what delivery costs. or just browse everything skips it.
Online booking has to be open. Until it is, the link shows Online booking isn't open and asks people to contact you directly.
A new code keeps the link.Get a new code changes the code you paste on a website. Your booking page link stays the same.
It ticks itself.Put booking on your website ticks itself when your first online booking comes in. Its button then reads Booking link instead of Get the code.
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Written with AI from this video's script and screens.
Your booking page 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.
Looking for a booking link for business? This one opens your own booking page, with your rentals, the open days and the price.
The plan holds, in one place:
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.
On your Rentals page, find Put booking on your website and tap Get the code. Copy the link under the code, and paste it into a text, an email or anywhere people look for you.
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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