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How to Pre-Select Values on the Booking Form
How to Pre-Select Values on the Booking Form

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Written by Hanu Gouda
Updated over a week ago

Pre-Select Values – Overview

How it Works

By adding certain key-value pairs (called query string parameters) to the URL of your Booking page on your website, you can tell the Launch27 booking form which values to pre-select when the form loads.

Step 1: How to find the ID of the Service/ Frequency/or other value you want to preselect inside the system

  1. Go to Settings -> Services -> Services or Frequencies > Categories
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  2. Hover over the edit icon
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  3. You will see a URL in your browser’s status bar that looks like this: http://www.yoursite.launch27.com/admin/services/10/edit
    ​http://www.yoursite.launch27.com/admin/frequencies/3/edit
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  4. The bold numbers in the URL above are the IDs you would use for the parameters
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  5. (Optional) If you have a pricing parameter, you just need to pass in a number to
    represent the Quantity. If your quantities are 1-6 for the pricing parameter, you can use any number from 1 to 6.
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Step 2: Add the parameters to the URL

Let’s assume this is the URL of the booking page on your website.

Please note: Your website booking URL may look slightly different than below but we'll use this one throughout the doc to build our pre selected links.

A Single Parameter:

When you are adding a single parameter, you always add a ‘?’ before the name of the parameter.

Service Only

This would be used if you want the service with ID ‘3’ to be pre-selected:

Frequency Only

This would be used if you want the frequency with ID ‘3’ to be pre-selected:

Extras

This would be used if you want to pre-select an extra:

  • extra[<extra_id>]=<extra_quantity>

Zip Code

This sets the zip code to be pre-filled on the form:

Phone

This would be used to pre-enter a phone number:

  • phone=test

Email

This would be used to pre-enter an email:

  • email=test

Number of Workers

Sets the number of workers to be pre-selected on the form (for hourly services):

  • service_id=<ID of your hourly service>

  • quantity=2

Number of Hours

Sets the number of hours (in minutes) to be pre-selected on the form (for hourly services):

  • service_id=<ID of your hourly service>

  • minutes=120

Discount Code

Enters a discount code into the Discount Field of the booking form. For a discount code called “springclean”:

rcode=springclean

Service Date and Time

Enters a service date into the Date field, and a time into the Time field of the booking form:

  • date – for Service Date. Format – YYYY-MM-DD i.e. date=2018-12-13.

  • time – for Service Time. Format – HH-MM (24 hours) i.e. 1:45PM would be time=13-45.

  • arrival_window – for Arrival Window. Format – N (integer, in minutes) i.e. a 2 hour arrival window would be arrival_window=120

Service Category

Selects a service category on the booking form:

  • category_id – ID of the service category i.e. category_id=10

Multiple Parameters:

When you are adding multiple parameters, you always add a ‘?’ before the name of the FIRST parameter, then a ‘&’ before the name of each subsequent parameter

Service and Pricing Parameter

This would be used if you want the service with ID ‘3’ and pricing parameter with quantity 3 to be pre-selected:

Service and Pricing Parameter

This would be used if you want the service with ID ‘3’ with a pricing parameter of quantity 3 and frequency with ID ‘3’ to be pre-selected:

How to Add Multiple Pricing Parameters

If you have multiple pricing parameters associated with your service, you can pre-select the quantities for each pricing parameter.

For example, if you have a Service (whose ID = 3) and two pricing parameters (whose IDs are 1 and 2), your link would look like this

http://www.yoursite.com?service_id=3&pricing_parameter[2]=5&frequency_id=7&pricing_parameter[1]=5
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