Listing your business on Apple Maps allows your customers to book appointments with you when they search for you by selecting the Schedule button. If the customer has the Vagaro app, it will automatically go to your booking screen; otherwise, your Vagaro Listing Page will be shown in their web browser. You can see how many appointments were scheduled using Apple Maps by running the Appointment Source report.
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When you first enable appointments to be booked on Apple, and every time you update your Vagaro business information, your changes won't immediately be shown. It may take up to a week for search engines to crawl your website and display your updates.
Prerequisites: This feature is available for all Vagaro businesses.
If the customer has the Vagaro app, it will directly open to that business's page. If the customer does not have the Vagaro app, the app will launch and navigate to the business's web page.
To be able to allow your customers to book on Apple Maps:
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Your business must be out of the free trial period.
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Online booking must be enabled.
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At least one appointment has been booked within the last 30 days.
To set up your Apple business account:
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Open an Apple Business account and an Apple Business Connect account.
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Verify that your name and address match what you entered in your Vagaro business profile.
To make sure that your business can be successfully found and booked via Google Maps:
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Confirm these settings in the Business Profile screen:
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Verify that Your Vagaro name and address match what you entered in your Google Business profile.
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Verify that your business profile information is up-to-date to be shown in your business listing on Google.
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Toggle on List Business on Vagaro.com and List Business on Apple Maps.
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Verify that your Facility Information, business logo, and photos are up-to-date to be shown in your business listing on Apple Maps.
You can retrieve the Apple Maps Booking appointment activity report by following the steps below.
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Go to → → .
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Select a Date Range for the report.
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Select All Employees and select the service providers you want to include in the report.
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Select Customer to filter the report by a specific client or select All Customers to include all customers in the report.
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Select Run Report.
You have two types of data displays available: Chart View and Grid View. Select Grid View to see Apple Maps data included in the report.
Chart View
Grid View
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Select Export to export the report in Excel or PDF format.
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Select Print to print a copy of the report.
Comments
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Does this feature require customers to input their credit card information?
This is great but is this functionality available now? I'm not seeing it as functional when I search my business on apple maps.
The article doesn't tell you how to get the schedule button on Apple Maps.
Paul: You don't have to do anything. It is a new feature with Apple Maps and Vagaro for businesses that meet two criteria: out of the trial period and has online booking configured.
Dalton: Apple Maps does not require any credit card info, but if your customers want to book or purchase from your online store, yes, then they may have to provide that info.
Nicole G: I see that you made some changes to your account this morning. If you just configured the options that Apple Maps needs to add the Schedule button, it may take some time to sync up.
Is this also available on Google maps or just Apple Maps now?
I’m not seeing this feature on mine through Apple Maps. It has a “muni” tab that takes the to the awful yelp place! Lol
Janet: right now it's just Apple Maps, though I believe that Vagaro is working with Google to bring similar functionality to their mapping. Also, I'm not sure how long it is taking to roll it out to Apple users, so keep checking.
So Donna - in your reply to Paul you said we DO NOT have to do anything to have this feature set up. So since I’ve been with VAGARO for over a year (out of my trial period) and have online booking set up, then this “booking system with Apple & VAGARO will just automatically set up?
Just want to clarify.
Also just curious, do you work for VAGARO?
Thanks for your help so far.
I noticed some businesses on Apple Maps that have somehow linked their reviews to vagaro instead of yelp. How do I do that for my business?
Hi Melanie... I'm not sure because I don't have an account for Apple Business Connect, but because the Yelp reviews are shown on Apple Maps, I'm guessing that you configure that using your Apple Business Connect account. Look on Apple's site for help: https://www.apple.com/business/connect/
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