How To Integrate BookingPress With AffiliatePress And Increase Your Appointments
AffiliatePress doesn’t just help traditional e-commerce sites, such as retails or digital downloads.
Thanks to its wide range of integrations, sites that sell courses, appointments, or accept donations can also integrate with AffiliatePress to build an effective affiliate program and increase sales organically.
In this tutorial, we’re featuring one of such connections – AffiliatePress integration with BookingPress. When you integrate the two, your service or appointment booking site receives fantastic affiliate tools!
TL;DR: Connect BookingPress and AffiliatePress to launch an affiliate program for your appointment based business. Affiliates can share referral links, coupons, QR codes, and landing pages, while AffiliatePress automatically tracks bookings and rewards commissions. This way you can increase both appointments and revenue at the same time.
What Is BookingPress?
In case you are not a BookingPress user yet… BookingPress is one of the top choices among appointment scheduling automation plugins for WordPress.
It lets you sell any type of appointment with real-time availability, shift management, and smooth payment processing online.
Best features that make BookingPress a top choice for service businesses:
- Powerful ecosystem of tools to help any business case – from yoga classes to repair shops.
- Focus on upsells and marketing tools – discounted packages, coupons, ‘happy hours’ pricing, online tips, add-on upsells, and more.
- Integration with online meeting platforms (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams).
- The biggest number of payment gateways available without hassle (Klarna, Skrill, Square, Paddle).
- Multi-branch and multi-language capability.
- REST API for developers.
How AffiliatePress Will Help You Sell More Appointments
While BookingPress helps you sell appointments and bookings, AffiliatePress helps you sell even more of those!
First of all, affiliates help businesses survive in highly competitive cities where there are roughly 10 fitness centers per square meter… But it’s not just about fighting competition.
Do you have a lot of appointment gaps and are looking to scale your operations? You might be in one of the situations:
- Empty weekday morning classes,
- Seasonal slowdowns,
- New locations,
- Newly hired instructors,
- Expensive rent.
Such things slow down your revenue a lot. But if you recruit affiliates, that can significantly help with:
- Fill off-peak hours,
- Sell introductory packages,
- Find more long-term clients (language schools, cosmetic clinics),
- Launch new services,
- Increase recurring memberships.
AffiliatePress comes with a lot of features and extra add-ons to create a flexible affiliate management scenario for every service business.
For multi-location or franchise service businesses, affiliates can become local influencers and bloggers who help you find and keep clients for a longer time. Moreover, AffiliatePress comes with Product-wise commissions, allowing you to set different commission levels per service, which can be significant for service businesses.
If your service business targets tourists (guided tours, beauty services near hotels, airport transfer services with appointments), your affiliate partnerships with travel websites, tourism websites, hotels, or travel bloggers can help with discovery of your services a lot. Even more so, you can find affiliate QR codes that you can generate with AffiliatePress truly helpful for offline promotion.
Online-based businesses looking for digital reach rely on affiliates even more. Remote coaching, online therapy platforms, virtual fitness classes are less restrictive geographically and can scale globally with ease. And affiliates are the best way to reach this goal. Using AffiliatePress tools, you can even assign individual landing pages to affiliates for better conversion tracking as well as more personalization.
If you are building a marketplace-style business, AffiliatePress has the multi-domain feature that helps you promote yourself as a multi-provider business and the multi-level commission structure option, which helps your affiliate recruit their own affiliates.
Growth in appointments and clients directly depends on how motivated your affiliates are. No matter your service niche, AffiliatePress has many motivation-booster features for affiliates:
- Performance bonuses you can set in AffiliatePress to motivate your affiliates to work better and harder.
- Affiliate leaderboards are great to incentivize repeat recommendations.
- Multiple commission types to create the best service sale model.
- Better email marketing for affiliates with tools like Omnisend, Mailchimp, AWeber, and MailerLite that are already available in AffiliatePress.
- Sign-up bonuses for every affiliate.
- Generate affiliate-specific coupon codes.
- Give affiliates multifunctional dashboards.
How To Integrate AffiliatePress With BookingPress
There is not much you need to set up. After integrating BookingPress with AffiliatePress, you will be able to automatically track affiliate referrals and manage commissions for bookings made through your website.
Before you begin, note:
- BookingPress should be already installed and activated on your site.
- Basic AffiliatePress affiliate program setup should be finished.
To activate the integration:
- Go to WordPress → AffiliatePress → Settings → Integrations.
- Find BookingPress Integration.
- Enable the integration switch.
Once enabled, additional settings may appear depending on which AffiliatePress or BookingPress add-ons you have activated.
However, most likely the ‘Reject Commission on Refund’ is there for sure. Enable this option to automatically reject unpaid affiliate commissions when a BookingPress order is refunded.
Moreover, by default, affiliate commissions are enabled for all BookingPress services. To disable commissions for a specific service:
- Go to WordPress → BookingPress.
- Edit the service you want to exclude from commissions.
- Scroll down to the AffiliatePress Commission Settings section.
- Enable the Disable Commissions option.
- Click Save to apply the changes.
How Will Commissions Be Attributed?
How will commissions be assigned to affiliates in the context of the booking forms, where ‘services’ you sell exist primarily inside the booking system? Well, the booking form is still placed on the website. Websites have URLs, and those where the booking form is placed, too. So, affiliates will basically need to lead to any page on your site, whether the home page, specific service pages, or booking pages – using their unique affiliate links for referral tracking and commission attribution.
They can find and generate affiliate links in their personal dashboards:
Moreover, don’t forget that AffiliatePress works with more than just links. Your affiliates can also promote your services with QR codes, individual discount coupons, landing pages, and branded creative assets.
All the extra features you customize through the AffiliatePress add-on may also work for BookingPress (e.g. setting up individual affiliate commission).
Concluding: Increase Appointments For BookingPress With AffiliatePress
Integrating BookingPress with AffiliatePress takes just a few steps. And your appointment businesses that is powered by BookingPress can benefit from AffiliatePress and its features a ton:
- You can build powerful referral and ambassador programs with automated registration and a powerful dashboard.
- Improve influencer partnerships with multiple commission rates and offerings.
- Improve local partnerships and multi-brand visibility.
- Make your affiliates happy with modern and diverse tools for advertising.
- Fight spam affiliate traffic and build quality leads.
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