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Bookings taken properly, at three in the morning

Availability your customers book against themselves, with every one of your real rules applied, and far fewer people failing to turn up.

Typically costs
£30k–£70k
Live in
816 weeks
Price yours properlyThree minutes, and it asks for nothing

Bookings

4 parts

01Where this usually starts

Bookings arrive by phone, by email and through a form, and all of them land in a diary somebody maintains by hand. Double bookings happen. No-shows cost you real money. Anything unusual waits for the person who knows the rules.

02What changes

What you end up holding.

  • 01Customers booking themselves in against genuine availability, whenever it suits them
  • 02Your real rules applied: notice periods, how long each thing takes, who can do what, when you are closed
  • 03Reminders that cut people failing to turn up, and a deposit taken where it is worth it
  • 04Cancellations offered straight to whoever is waiting
  • 05An honest picture of how full you are and where the gaps really are

A diary that fills itself overnight, and no-shows cut by reminders nobody has to send.

03The pieces

What a system like this is usually made of.

You will not want all of it on day one, and you should not pay for all of it on day one. The estimator lets you choose, and shows what each one adds.

Taking payment

Card, bank transfer and direct debit, reconciled against the invoice without anyone matching them up.

The schedule

Work placed against people, skills and equipment, with real constraints applied.

Customers booking themselves

Real availability, your rules, open at three in the morning.

Reminders and no-shows

Reminders that cut people failing to turn up, and a cancelled slot offered straight to the waiting list.

The sort of detail that matters

  • Paid from a link in the invoice
  • Direct debit collected on the day it is due
  • Nobody scheduled onto a job their ticket does not cover
  • A change absorbed in seconds

04How it would run

8 to 16 weeks, in five phases you approve one at a time.

  1. 01

    Getting to the truth

    A written account of how your work really runs today, what the current way is costing you, and what your new system has to do about it.

  2. 02

    Shaping it

    Every screen and every decision your system will make, in front of you and signed off, with your live date fixed at the end of it.

  3. 03

    Building it

    Your system takes shape week by week in your own account, with something you can click on and try at the end of every fortnight.

  4. 04

    Proving it

    Your own people put it through real work with real records, and everything they find is fixed before anybody depends on it.

  5. 05

    Going live

    Your team moves across trained, with their history intact, on the date fixed months earlier.

What happens in each of them

05Asked most often

The questions that come up.

We have unusual rules about who can be booked with whom.

Most people do, and it is normally why you gave up on the packaged booking tools. Qualifications, rooms, equipment, travel between sites, back-to-back limits, buffers, and the customer who must only ever see one particular person.

Can it take a deposit?

By card at the point of booking, with your own rules on what happens to it when somebody cancels late.

Does it work with our calendars?

Both ways, with Microsoft 365 or Google, so one of your people blocking out their own calendar drops out of availability without having to remember to.

06The rest of it

Most projects are two or three of these at once.

Put a date on it.

Half an hour with whoever would build it gets you the shape of the work, a figure you can take to your board, and the week it could start. No deck, no discovery fee, no follow-up sequence.