SmartBooking is a responsive business theme integrated with online appointment scheduler system. The theme is crafted by InkThemes and it comes with an appointment plugin worth $97 without extra charges. This plugin can turn your simple business site into online appointment management portal.
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It is released with a goal to help business owners and client’s to engage efficiently. The custom widget area gives you option to display all your key services, contacts and appointment form too.
Who Should Use SmartBooking WordPress Theme ?
It is made for any specific business niche, so you can try it out for any business which needs to provide advanced appointment. For e.g. Salon / Beauty shop, Spa and Massage parlour, Lawyers, Hospitals / Clinics, Events or any service based business. It becomes really hard when you manage your business with phone calls or direct interaction.
But making an online business presence would make a lots of changes. When you start a business portal with booking system, then it automatically boosts your leads. Because client’s can see your services, prices and also confirm their appointment through website. The responsive layout makes your client’s to browse your services and entire website from handy devices.
I would recommend this theme to all service related business. Though it is also compatible for freelancers, agencies and big companies. The additional templates includes contact page, blog page, gallery section etc.
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SmartBooking InkThemes : Main Features
Header Options : The left of the header area shows your logo and tag-line for business. The right most area highlights contacts and office address. If you don’t prefer to display contacts on right side then you can also add advertisement banner. The bottom area shows a custom menu-bar and it is good place to display all your important links.
The menu-bar is designed with advanced floating layout, so you can always show it to your visitors while scrolling with page. It could be useful to visitors when they want to visit different pages on your website.
Full-Width Slider : The slider proves very helpful when you have special offers or some eye catchy contents. It is found on the top of front page which gives you good space to display your offers, events and latest posts. InkThemes options panel offers slider management panel and this is where you can manage entire slider.
You can add contents into slides as required : e.g. Image, Links (button), Texts (details) etc.
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Appointment Form : SmartBooking WordPress theme offers a prominent appointment booking form on the top of the slider. So visitors can easily find it when they land on homepage. The booking form offers custom fields so you can add and remove form fields as needed. The demo shows useful fields like Name, Email, Contact number, Service list, Date, Time, Price and optional message box.
Hence, client’s can easily pick preferred date and time slot for their appointments. The back-end options allows you to insert services with price, date wise time slots and services. This way, customers can easily pick suitable service packs though booking form. The form can work and adjust on small screens also, that means people can schedule their visits from smart phones and all devices.
The online appointment system can be setup in 4 steps which has been depicted in the screen-shot below. It automatically sends email to administrator and clients for each new booking request. PayPal payment gateway is also integrated to accept online payments. Though you can also collect money when customer visits your office.
Page Templates : SmartBooking is a multi-purpose business template that is powered by several page templates and custom widgets. Now you can show your client’s all your work samples through stunning gallery showcase page. This page let’s you add all your imagery to display your skills and efficiency. It shows all gallery posts using multiple columns layout and featured thumbnails. So user can click on photos to view them using slide-show.
Blog template is also available with 5 custom post formats. And it is useful to share your best news through media contents. Business owners can utilize blog area to spread their news about offers, new services and special events. Last but not least, Contact page is also given with message form, google map and text field. So user can find office location, or phone number or they can send direct message using contact form.
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