Let customers book you, your team or a room.
Booking puts a booking page on your site. Customers choose a service, a day and a free time, and get a confirmation and a reminder by email. You see it all in a Diary in the admin, and nobody is ever double-booked.
What Booking does for you
People and rooms
Appointments with you or your team, and rooms or equipment such as a meeting room, a court or a van. Each has its own weekly hours and days off.
Services that fit your day
A length, time to set up or clear away before and after, how much notice you need and how far ahead people can book.
A booking page
At /booking, or on any page with a shortcode. Customers only ever see times that are really free.
Emails that do the chasing
A confirmation with a calendar file, a reminder before the day, and a private link to move or cancel within your notice.
A Diary for your team
A day or week view with people and rooms side by side. Click a free time to book someone in, or move a booking in a few clicks.
Straight from an email
Book the sender of an email, or anyone in your Contacts, in a couple of clicks. New customers join your Contacts on their own.
Try it in 5 minutes
- Switch on Booking in the Marketplace and open it from the sidebar.
- In People & rooms, add yourself with your weekly hours.
- In Services, add a 30-minute consultation that you provide.
- Visit
/bookingon your site, pick a time and book it. - Open the Diary: the booking is there, and the confirmation is in your inbox.
Booking and Booking Pro
Booking Free
- People, rooms and services with hours, days off and buffers
- A booking page and the
[booking /]shortcode - Confirmation, reminder and change emails with a calendar file
- Customers move or cancel within your notice
- Diary, bookings list and a sidebar badge for today
Booking Pro Pro adds
- Services that need a person and a room together
- Classes with places and a waiting list that fills itself
- Repeat bookings: weekly, fortnightly or monthly
- Questions to ask on the booking form
- Daily limits and one booking per customer every so many days
Works with the rest of your site
Contacts
Every customer becomes a contact, once. Book anyone from their contact card, and see their bookings on it.
Email and Mail Reader
Choose Book (name)... on any email. If the sender is already a contact, the booking starts from their details.
Calendar
Bookings appear on the Calendar, and your own Calendar events block your booking times.
Good to know
Customer details stay private: the booking collections have no public API, and each customer's change link is theirs alone. Times are kept in your business's time zone, clocks changing included.
What it needs
Nothing to start. Your site's outgoing email set up, so confirmations and reminders can be sent.
Questions
Yes. [booking /] shows it anywhere, and [booking service="consultation" /] goes straight to one service.
Yes. Staff book from the Diary or from a contact, and may book over a clash when they need to. Customers never can.
Not yet. Taking payment or a deposit online is planned for Booking Pro.
Goes well with
Add Booking to your site
Booking is free and comes with every install. Switch it on in the Marketplace.