Am I the only one who hates how the user has to click through the calendar to find the month the sessions are offered? So if im offering sessions six months in advance they have to click through six months? Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I haven't figured out how to fix this.
Hello! First of all, thank you for making this video so easy to understand!! I’m new to HB and this was great. My first project here. Question: I tested it with my test contact and although everything seems to be set up in automations, I still had to go back and send the email to “finish booking” manually, and the finish booking button is missing. Any help would be appreciated, I must be missing something
Thank you for posting this tutorial it is a lot more comprehensive than others I have watch but to be honest I got lost on many of the steps, not sure what you where clicking on or why and although you did explained many of the steps you missed to point out a few of the steps and that is when I got lost. I watched it over and over and over. Speclially on minute 11:44
Thank you for this video. My event is in 3 weeks, and I was trolling my emails daily trying not to miss a Contact Form submission. I will say that I took notes as you went along and I found your process easy to understand (especially after a replay or two🙂)! I have had Honeybook for a while and only just discovered the smart files. Thank you so much!
I believe the updates do not transfer because the iCal file is just a snapshot. So you would have to re-import to see updates. If you can get the URL of the iCal calendar, you can import that into Google calendar and it WILL update!
Hi Amy, your videos were so helpful about a year ago when I was looking for a CRM (you helped me decide on Honeybook) and setting up my Honeybook. But, now, I am wondering if I can do more with having Pixieset and have everything all in one. I’m just wondering if you have any newer experience with Pixieset manager suit? You haven’t posted anything in a long time so I’d probably watch any new content you have!
Hi, I tried in the scheduler to setup the end and start date to be the same (since mini session is the same day different time slots) and it’s telling me the end date has to go after the start date 😭 is Honeybook’s really set up to do same day mini bookings?
Yes, you have to leave the end date empty and just set the availabilty for that one day only instead of every Saturday (or whatever day). It CAN be done in Honeybook, however it is extremely obnoxious and if you do mini sessions with any regularity, I highly recommend using Session for them instead because it is built for that. (I've been ignoring my youtube channel for a bit but have a video on that coming soon.)
Hi! This video was so helpful. I followed along with each step but for some reason my scheduler is not letting people click on the dates I made “available” to choose from in the smart file. Do you know what I’m doing wrong? Thanks!!
Hmmm...it could be a number of things but check your connected calendars - if you have any events set to "busy", it won't let anything be scheduled during those times.
I have a very important question? When the client choose their time slot, does it prevent other clients from choosing that time automatically? I tried to create my own project for a test and noticed that every time slot was still available.
Is it possible to develop this and simply share a link via IG story to allow multiple people the ability to schedule and pay, without the hassle of filling out the contact form?
@@AmyLynnCreative not free cause u're making money. And btw precious much? Sorry u r too sensitive to take some criticism one could even called it that. It was an observation.
One question: why are we making a mini contact form when we're having to make a mini project option? because it seem thats where this automation comes in right? Unless you're sending a bulk email with this specific contact form.... Just been working on this a few hours and had that question come to mind.
Yeah, feels like jumping through hoops for sure, but it is important in this case! If you don’t create a separate contact form for your mini session project type, you’d have to add a question to the contact form with the project type field linked and hope the client selects the correct option (plus it’s an extra step for them) instead of the project type automatically being your mini session project! Does that make sense?
I subscribed to your video. I also shoot Canon. My main camera is the R6, second shooter is 6D, then I have 5 other back ups. I haven't had an issue where the 20mp has been an issue. In fact back in the early 2000's I shot with Canon 30D and I believe it's only 10mp and a crop sensor. It does make the work flow easier having 20mp v 48. Especially if I shot a 1,000 images at a wedding! Enjoyed your video!
I just set this up pretty much exactly like you did in this video. It was very informative. But I ran into one tiny snag that I hope you can help me with. Maybe it was something I overlooked. When I had my first hit, it created the project for my client, but then marked my availability to "busy" within the project details, and that took the whole date offline for anyone else who wanted to check into it. It was basically a first come first serve. How can I default take my availability to "free" so I truly can just watch the bookings come in hands off?
Ok, with some fiddling, I ended up deleting the date field in the contact form. I think that's what messed it all up. Once the first person did that it just marked it as busy and no one else could finish booking. I'm not too worried about that because it needs to be paid in full at booking anyways, and I just went in and inputted the correct date in the contract that they can't edit. So it was a little bit of a workaround, but at least now multiple people can book.
Hi Kristy - so sorry for the late reply - you are correct - it is such a pain. the project date would have to be adjusted each time someone booked to be a certain timeframe. The way that you did it is the the only way to do it without constantly updating the project date with the specific time slot.
I am still struggling with this problem even though I don't have a date in the contact form and I marked the first client's project as "free" instead of "busy". Can anybody help me with this?
Loved your video! It was SUPER helpful and I was following along every step of the way. My only question is at 13:24, my scheduler icon is grayed out and it says "Coming soon..."! Are they still rolling out this feature or do you need the highest tiered membership to have access to it?
Hmmm...that is strange! And you're using smart files? I would reach out to Honeybook support about that! I was fairly certain that feature had been rolled out to everyone!
Thanks! I’ve been trying out Honeybook and like it so far but was so annoyed with trying to do mini sessions. I tried Dubsado for Christmas minis which worked awesome! I thought about switching but I love the Honeybook app on my phone. I REALLY wish Honeybook would make mini sessions functional 😑
This information was very helpful and after tweaking stuff around i think i got the hang of it. However, I do have a question. In my contract section, I like to state the Session date and time (project date and time) so I added in a smart field and selected project date, but i don't want to allow clients to change it, instead i would like for it to auto fill with the time they selected on scheduler. is that possible?
Unfortunately the scheduler does NOT trigger the project date field. HUGE bummer. That's why I have the workaround with the contact form - it will work as long as the client puts the correct date in the contact form.
Hi there. Thank you for this. Is there a way to create ONE page that had multiple blocks and each block offers a different digital download? Before I design it, not sure that each block button (when on the same landing page) will then be able go to a different checkout page... each digital download will have a different price. Would be nice for people to be able to see all the digital downloads on 1 page versus having to create 5 different pages for 5 products.
The only way to have multiple links is to link pieces of text - all the buttons will go to the same sale page. Checkouts were designed for a single product use case. That said, I created one page for a digital product, then duplicated the page for each other product so that I didn't have to start from scratch! Then I would have a page on my website that shows all the products and links to each sales page. (Also - just realized I replied from my other account - sorry to be confusing! - Amy)
Im still confused - can you bypass a platform like Kajabi for the actual course delivery.?I'm seeing that people can obviously buy my course, but can't actually access it with out a course delivery platform like Kajabi... Im guessing you cant, right?
Also got the R and it`s awesome, the girl who sold the R to me upgraded to the R6 and she`s not that happy, it`s not that of a big upgrade as she thought...
If you’d actually watched the video you’d know that Showit integrates with Wordpress so it is indeed a Wordpress blog. and yes, if one plans to blog consistently, Wordpress is the best for blogging.
@@AmyLynnCreative thanks for the reply. I did in fact watch the whole video. ShowIt is WordPress running on a hosted platform. It is not really the same as a proper WordPress install that you install with your own hosting provider. It is more like WordPress lite.
Love this! Excited for this new feature....are we able to use it normally in the beta or have to wait for it to launch? It's giving me a link...just wondering if I can try it out for real or only build it??
(So yes, you can utilize it while it’s in beta - that said it is only included with your current subscription until it’s out of beta so you would have to add the subscription at that point to keep your checkout active)
@@peace.n.blessings5579 Flodesk Checkout is an additional product and has a separate cost from Flodesk email. For more info, tag Petra Molnar in the Flodesk Facebook group!
I could see that working for a hobbyist who has cash to burn, but like many professionals, I've found that sticking to one system makes more sense for my business. 1) It's far more cost efficient to stick to one system so that lenses, flashes, batteries, etc are interchangeable. 2) If I need to use two cameras on the same shoot, going back and forth between two different systems is just another thing to think about and could lead to mistakes being made.
@@AmyLynnCreative I have the R5 for any sort of shooting where I pull a camera out of my bag, aka traveling. (2) A7siii for me is just set up in my studio (bedroom studio) and an A7iv that I have yet to use but it’s a backup I guess. I can see where what you said makes a lot of sense though. Appreciate the input and the great video!
Hi Amy, tried to send an email "now" but it keeps getting scheduled. I'm from Philippines and would like to send it to Canadian clients. What can I doto fix this?
Great tutorial Amy. I've had access to Checkout for a few days and have tried for said DAYS to use it. However, I cannot scroll freely up/down from block to block as you're doing while in edit mode. Is there a trick that I'm missing? I've adjusted the padding, screen size, clicked up/down arrows only to end up moving blocks. Is there anything you can suggest? Someone told me to use preview mode, but it's no longer available for them either. Any help is help at this point. Thanks so much.
Hi Carrie - I am so sorry - I saw your original comment and completely forgot to respond when I got back to my computer! I was using my laptop trackpad to scroll up and down and it is also working with my regular mouse scroll wheel as well! (I checked again just now.) Are you accessing Flodesk through the Google Chrome Browser on desktop?
Honeybook does not have a gallery feature as it is not a photographer specific platform. There is a calendar - I have it connected to all my google calendars so I don't overlap with any of my family plans by accident!
@@AmyLynnCreative what would you recommend for galleries? I currently shoot 20 weddings a year. But I always send Google Drive links and it’s just not sexy.
