Enhance your website's functionality by integrating the Checkfront Booking Widget, a powerful, fully responsive tool that brings bookings directly to your site. This customizable portal lets your Customers effortlessly search for availability and make reservations in real time, without ever leaving your website. By embedding this widget, you provide a seamless and user-friendly booking experience that keeps visitors engaged and encourages them to complete their bookings quickly and efficiently.
Read this introduction to our Booking Widget feature, including how the feature works on your website and the option to link using HTML.
Accessing the features mentioned in this article
Where can I find this feature using the top menu?
- Manage > Integrations > Website Integrations > Booking Widget
What more do I need to use this feature?
- Ability to copy and paste into your website code, or help from a skilled person to do this for you!
Which Checkfront version supports this feature - classic items, classic products, or both?
- This feature is available in both our classic version using classic items (Inventory > Items) and our classic version using classic products (Inventory > Products). → Learn more about products
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Booking Widget or the Booking Page for your business Learn more about the difference between the Booking Widget and Booking Page here: |
Integration Overview
Want to let Customers book directly from your website? The Checkfront Booking Widget makes it easy by embedding a real-time, interactive booking portal on virtually any web page.
The Booking Widget is a compact, fully responsive XHTML/AJAX widget that adapts to your website's style and layout, providing customers with a seamless booking experience while keeping your business's booking process secure and reliable. You can also customize it to match your branding, with options to configure background color, font color, font family, default date selection, and more.
In this series of articles, we walk you through everything you need to know to get it set up.
Linking using HTML
As an alternative option to using the Booking Widget, you can link to your Booking Page (/Reserve) using simple HTML. Learn more here!
Next Steps
Once you're comfortable with the basics above, check out these deeper-dive articles:
- Accessing Booking Widget settings
- Configuring basic Booking Widget options
- Configuring advanced Booking Widget options
- Generating Booking Widget code to add to your website
In this article, we start by showing how to access the Booking Widget settings.
Accessing Booking Widget settings >