The service, known as Reserve with Google, spares users the phone calls, online searching and form filling typically associated with appointments. Users will be able to make Reserve bookings via voice commands to Google Assistant by later this year, people familiar with the matter said. The payoff, schedule suppliers say, is that the booking tool makes clients more attractive in Google results. TimeTrade, a Tewksbury, Mass.-firm whose clients include beauty chain Sephora, said 75 percent of clients' Reserve reservations have come from new customers. said George Mardigian of Reserve bookings to his Oakland, Calif. gym Flex Fitness.

Source: Economic Times June 01, 2018 08:34 UTC