Karen Easter runs a hypnotherapy praxis located in Darlington, Perth in Australia. She came to us to help her running her business more smoothly by implementing an appointment booking system on her website that takes & confirm bookings, collects payments, exchanges data with her Google calendar and sends the clients a reminder sms a day before the appointment.

Her clients can book online at any time of the day or night. A simple booking screen allows the client to choose the service they want and pick a time slot convenient to them. To confirm the booking they can pay for the session using a credit card or doing a bank transfer. The time slot then appears to be taken on the website. The client receives an email confirming their booking and will receive an sms the day before their appointment to remind them.

Karen receives an email of each 

booking and an entry is automatically made into her Google calendar with the date and time of booking, contact details of the client and whether the payment was made.

Further, within the appointment booking component different resources can be setup e.g. different therapists, doctors, hairdressers etc. and they can have different services assigned. For each resources fixed book off times can be set (f.e. if the resources can not accept bookings at certain days or times).

The appointment booking system also allows to issue discounts and coupons as well as displaying extras that can be purchased. 

Office staff can access a special front desk screen allowing to modify or add bookings.

All in all, this system is a well thought through system that can be implemented in any Joomla website for an affordable price.

To see this system in action, please go to www.strategies4life.com.au. Should you be interested to book for a session, Karen offers a special discount to all of our newsletter subscribers of a 10% discount for all services booked through her website. Please use coupon code: WWW during the checkout process. Offer valid until 31st August 2016

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A well-maintained website means up to date code. Just like your car, a content management system needs regular tuning, updating and maintenance in order to run smoothly and securely.

There are a lot of updates happening each month to either the content management system or its extensions and plugins. Therefore it makes sense to keep an eye on them every month and bring them up to the latest version. This ensures the maximum security for your website. Problems can be monitored and addressed.

This is what is included

• Content Management Updates (Joomla or WordPress)
• Template Updates (Joomla or WordPress)
• Plugin or Extension Updates (Joomla or WordPress)
• Running a snapshot to see where there could be a vulnerability in the way your website is setup
• Running an audit
• Uptime Monitor of your Website
• Checking of SSL certificate expiry
• Monthly report emailed to you

This is what is not included

• If you have made changes on your website and this is causing problems, we will not automatically fix that for you. Fixing that for you is a paid service!
• If we are running a screenshot and find that there are some vulnerabilities on your website, we will contact you. Fixing this is a paid service! However this will only be a one off because once the adjustments are made they will be continually applied.
• Major upgrades of the CMS (Joomla or WordPress) or its template are not included in the maintenance plan.

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