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A booking system for small business that lives on your own site
Free booking tools are fine until the business grows around them. We build bookings into the site you own, with the services, times, deposits and reminders your trade actually needs. Scoped for free, quoted per job.
A booking system for small business is the second most searched tool after a website, and most owners start with a free one. That is the right call for a new business. The trouble starts when the free tool's branding is on every email, the deposit option costs a plan upgrade, and the booking page lives on someone else's domain while your own site just links out to it.
What we build sits inside the site, uses your name, and is shaped by how you take bookings, not by what a generic tool allows.
Free or built
How to do booking for a small business, honestly
Start free if you are new
A free booking tool with a calendar and reminders is enough for the first year. Put the link on your site and your Google profile and get on with the work.
Move when the tool starts costing you
Clients see another company's branding, you cannot take a deposit without upgrading, the page does not match your site, or two tools now need to talk to each other and do not.
Built means yours
The booking page is on your domain, the data is yours, the reminders say your name, and the deposit goes to your account. No per booking fee to a platform.
Built does not mean complicated
A barber needs a list of cuts, a calendar and a card hold. That is a small build. A clinic with four practitioners and room limits is a bigger one. The quote says which you are.
By business
What each kind of business needs from bookings
Salon
Services by category with a duration each, a stylist choice, a card on file for no shows, and a reminder two days out. The beauty template is built with book now within reach on every screen.
Barber
Fast. Cut, fade or beard, pick a time, done in three taps, because most bookings come from a phone between jobs. The barbershop template makes book the first button.
Cafe
Table bookings for groups and functions only, with a policy that says the rest is walk in. Nobody wants to book a flat white, and a booking form for everything just gets ignored.
Mobile detailer or any trade that travels
A suburb check first, then a time window, not a fixed time, because jobs run long. A deposit link for the big packages and a text when you are on the way.
Deposits and no shows
The part that actually saves money
A no show costs a salon the whole slot and a detailer the whole trip. The fix is not a stern policy on the wall, it is a card hold or a small deposit at the time of booking and a reminder the day before with a one tap reschedule. Clients who have paid something turn up. We build the deposit through Square links or the payment tool you already use, so the money lands in your account and not in a platform's.
What it costs
Quoted per job, scoped for free
Business tools are quoted per job after a free scope, the same as the rest of our business tools. A simple bookings page on a site we build is a small job. One that has to talk to a point of sale, hold cards and manage several staff is a bigger one. We tell you which before you decide, and the price on the quote is the price you pay. A 25% deposit starts the build, the rest is due when it is live and you are happy with it.
Fair questions
What people ask about booking systems
Is there a free booking system for small business?
Can it take a deposit?
Can it send reminders?
Does it work with the calendar on my phone?
I already have a website. Can you add bookings to it?
How long does it take?
Scoped for free
Tell us the job you do by hand
One message about what you are tracking on paper, in texts or in a spreadsheet. We scope it for free and come back with one price for the job.