About Wix Bookings Services
The Wix Bookings Services API enables you to retrieve the services your business offers.
The service contains the information customers need to decide whether to book the business offering. This includes the type of offering (appointment, class, course), scheduling information, locations, booking policies (such as the latest possible time a session can be booked), payment information, and more. Creating and managing your services is the cornerstone for working with Wix Bookings.
Once services are created, you can:
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Use these Services APIs to retrieve information about the service(s), enabling you to make the information available to your customers.
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Use other Bookings APIs to process customer bookings, manage schedules and calendars, check availability, and more.
More About Services
A service is an online or in-person offering that a business provides to its customers, such as courses and private sessions.
For example, a fitness studio may offer the following services:
- A 1-hour Pilates class
- A 30-minute 1-on-1 personal training session
- A 4-month Yoga course for instructors
Alternatively, a hair salon may offer the following services:
- A 30-minute haircut appointment
- A 2-hour hair coloring appointment
- A 3-week hair styling course
Services may differ in the offering they provide, but the API differentiates between 3 main types of services:
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Appointments: An appointments is a 1-time session that can be booked and scheduled by a customer. The appointment takes place whenever a customer books a specific time slot.
For example, a 30-minute haircut.
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Classes: Recurring sessions of multiple participants scheduled by the business. Customers can book any session of the class. Classes can be scheduled on different days, at different times, with different resources, such as staff members. Customers can sign up for single sessions or a class's recurring sessions.
For example, a language school offers a beginner's Spanish class every Monday at 8:00 PM. Customers can join the session they want and don't have to commit to attending all sessions.
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Courses: A limited number of sessions for the same service that starts and ends on a particular day. Customers sign up for the entire course and not just one session.
For example, a 12-session introductory course to Pilates, starting on February 1st and ending on March 17th.
Before you begin
Before using the API, make sure to set up Wix Bookings and create the right services for your business.
Sample Use Cases
Terminology
For a comprehensive glossary of Wix Bookings terms, see Terminology.