Can I embed online booking in my website using an iFrame?

Online Booking 2.0:

Yes, head to Integrations & Add ons -> Online Booking -> Configure and you will see a field with the code to embed Online Booking 2.0.

Please speak to your website designer if you require any help with this. We cannot assist with issues outside of your WriteUpp account.

Classic Online Booking:

No. Here's why,

WriteUpp and Online Booking have a host of security measures that rely heavily upon cookies. Most browsers have tightened up their security/fraud detection capabilities, most notably Safari.

As a result, most browsers (and specifically Safari) now only permit cookies in the parent site (i.e. your_website_URL.com) and block them in an embedded iFrame, which is effectively treated as a separate site. So, if you embed our classic online booking site in your website (using an iFrame for example), the user's browser will block our cookies and prevent our site from working correctly. These restrictions exist because iFrames have previously been misused to deceive users into thinking they're interacting with one site, when they're actually on another.

The recommended approach is to link directly to your Online Booking URL from your website, rather than embedding it. This ensures full functionality and avoids cookie-related issues.

For those of you who are concerned about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), you may have been advised that it's important to keep users on your site, but this is a pretty outmoded approach to SEO. Google uses a whole host of parameters to rank you, and embedding a non-functional iFrame can actually harm your SEO more than it helps.

Updated on: 28/05/2025