Showroom appointment booking — Calendly integration?
Calendly works fine for <3 showroom locations. Above that, dedicated appointment platforms scale better.
- Calendly — embed on PDP and footer via the official widget. Each showroom is a separate event-type. Customers pick location + designer + time slot. Free for basic, $12-$20/user/mo for team features. Limit: doesn’t handle inventory awareness (“is this sofa actually on the showroom floor today?”).
- SimplyBook.me — multi-location native, supports up to 50+ providers, custom intake forms, automated reminders. Better for retail furniture chains with 5+ showrooms.
- Acuity Scheduling (Squarespace-owned) — mid-tier. Good for design-consult bookings (60-90 min slots) with a virtual + in-person toggle.
- Square Appointments — bundles with Square POS. Good fit for brands already running Square in-store.
Magento integration: embed via product-attribute “available at showroom” flag + a CMS block on PDP that shows the appointment widget. For showroom inventory awareness (“the brown leather version is on the LA floor; the cream is at SF”), pull a per-store-per-SKU availability flag into Magento via custom attribute and surface it in the appointment-picker UI.
Conversion data: 30-50% of high-AOV furniture buyers want to see in person before buying. A booking widget on PDP routes those buyers into a showroom visit with an associate — closes ~25-40% of those visits.