Getting Waitwhile notifications is a great way to stay on-top of changes and updates in your waitlist and appointments. You’ll get a text, email or web push notification each time a customer signs up, cancels or has arrived.

• Email and Web notifications are now available on the Free and Starter Plan! 🎉
• SMS notifications are available on the Business and Enterprise Plans.

Under Notification Settings you can choose which updates trigger a notification and how you would like to be notified!

→ Turn on notifications under Notification Settings

If you've invited your team members to your Waitwhile account and want to remind them to accept, you can now easily send them another invite email to nudge them!

Under the User Settings page there is now a big "Resend invite" button to your invited team members. If you click the drop-down you can also manually copy the invite link and share it yourself - or revoke the invite if you no longer want this user to join.

→ Check out the new Invite features under User Settings

Your public Waitwhile links now support pre-filling information for your customers when they register, using URL query parameters. You can pre-fill name, email, services, resources and a lot more.

The link that you provide to your guests (to join a waitlist or make a booking) can have a variety of different query parameters added to it in order to pre-fill certain customer information, and now you can use this same method to further streamline the signup process by pre-selecting services! 

A great example of this feature in action is adding links for specific services on your website, instead of having your guests select those during the actual signup process.

By adding one or more service IDs as a query parameter to your Waitlist signup or Booking URLs, it will automatically pre-select those services and skip the Service selection page in the sign-up flow. 

➡ Read more about how to configure query parameters for pre-selecting services

Precise automation of your alerts with the Next in Line Alert! 

The Next in Line Alert is sent instantly to a new guest if their original position is below or equal to the set trigger position. This will eliminate the confirmation alert so that you can give your customers specific instructions in order to be served. 

To configure this handy feature go to Settings > Alerts > Next in Line > check the box to send alert to customers that join before trigger position. 

This alert will cut down on the need to manually alert customers. Your busy staff will thank you!  ✅

➡ Fine tune all of your alerts in Alert Settings 

Manage your bookings by automatically removing appointments from your calendar with Auto Remove for Bookings. 

You now have the ability to remove your bookings within a set time frame and set the status to cancelled, completed, or no-showed. 

You can set these parameters in Settings > Bookings > Advanced > Auto Remove. 

This feature will help keep track of your customer visit status and analytics as well. 

➡ Head over to Bookings Settings to give Auto Remove a try! 

Your customers can view and manage their spot in line in just one click! 

The Customer Status Page is the personalized link that customers receive in their confirmation message when added to your waitlist. 

Give your customers a super smooth wait experience with our latest redesign. When your guests join your waitlist or schedule a booking they’ll get a link to this page where they can:

• Let you know if they have arrived or are running late
• See the full waitlist to see who is ahead of them in the line
• Share the visit details with the rest of their party
• Get directions to your business

Don't forget the QR code that was added recently to help your staff quickly serve your customers. 

 ➡ Customize the Customer Status Page in the Localization Settings.

We have launched our enhanced, flexible booking calendar to improve your booking experience! Let's explore the benefits! 

Customize the booking calendar to suit your business needs.

Features include:

• View service, resource, and remaining spots on the actual booking
• Customize by resource or service color
• Blocked time slots are easily viewed with a light blue background
• Canceled bookings are marked with a strikethrough 

• New view for overlapping bookings. Simply hover over the overlapping booking to bring to the forefront. 

• Bookings are more powerful and flexible 

Example: 

You would like a 45 minute time slot to start on the hour every hour. This can be configured by setting up your min/max booking times then setting up your booking hours in the business info settings. 

There are so many possibilities with our new Enhanced Calendar. Please feel free to let our Support Team know of any questions that you may have. 

--> Give it a go now

Have more control over your customer info with the validation feature. Validation is used to control what a customer can enter into a data field. 

By entering a 'regular expression' value here you can restrict what people are allowed to enter. For example, you can restrict the input for {{name}} to max 4 characters. 

We do know that these type of validations can be a bit difficult so we have added a guide for you. Simply click the "?" next to validation. 

Feel free to reach out to our Live Chat Support for help as well. 😀 

--> Take a look on the Customer Info Page

What's New you say? Stay updated with the What's New item that can be found in the User Menu. 

Here at Waitwhile, we take our customers' requests seriously.  We consistently add new product updates and now they are easier for you to find within your Waitwhile account. 

Give it a try by clicking on your User Menu (usually your picture or business logo) > Click 'What's New' > you will then be directed to our Waitwhile Product Update page. 

This feature is interactive and a red dot will show when new product updates have been added. 

--> Check it out in the User Menu 

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Your staff now has the option to have their own, unique booking link! 📣 

To find the booking link go to Settings > Resources

Click 3 dot menu next resource > copy booking link

Paste into any browser and boom...guests can view this specific booking calendar. 

These specific resource links can be shared with guests, embedded on your website, or even added to business cards. 

--> Try it out on the Resource Page