Booking software for small business, phone tag optional.

A customer opens your link and sees your photo, name, title and a note about you, then a four-week calendar with the open times beside it. They pick one, answer your questions and book.

The times show in the customer's own time zone, detected from their browser, with a dropdown to change it. They don't need a BizzyBot account, and the link doesn't open your projects, customer records or anything else inside the workspace.

A regular who likes to call can still call. The link is there for the ones who would rather not.

Set your hours for each weekday, up to four ranges a day, in your time zone. A meeting gets a set length. A site visit gets an arrival window, since nobody arrives at 2:00 sharp.

• Leave a buffer before and after each booking for travel and setup.
• Set a minimum notice, so nobody books the 8:00 slot at 7:45.
• Decide how far ahead people can book, and cap the bookings in a day.

Ask for what changes how you prepare. You get up to ten questions of your own, plus a built-in 'What would you like to discuss in this meeting?'

An address and a line about the job usually cover it. You probably don't need the customer's life story before a twenty-minute call.

After booking, the customer sees a confirmation with add-to-Google, add-to-Outlook, a downloadable invite and a Manage link. The Manage link lets them reschedule or cancel on their own, up to the change cutoff you set.

They also get e-mails along the way. A confirmation, then reminders at the times you choose, one day and one hour before if you like, and a note if the booking is moved or canceled.

On your side, every booking, move and cancellation reaches you by e-mail and a message inside the workspace, or a task on your board if you prefer. An ordinary task or renewal date on the calendar doesn't e-mail anyone.

Before a time is offered, Bookings checks your BizzyBot calendar, the busy time from any Google calendars you've imported, and the bookings already taken. A job that lives only in your head is still yours to block out.

Turn on the Guest follow-up switch and each guest gets a customer record, with the appointment on your calendar. With Google Calendar connected, the appointment is copied to Google too, and an online meeting can carry a Google Meet link.

Signing in with Google doesn't connect the calendar; that is a separate connection with its own permission screen. After connecting, make a test booking and check where it lands.

Open the link as a guest. Book a time, read the confirmation, check your questions and try the Manage link. Ten minutes of that beats admiring an empty calendar.

Then share it, by copying the link or from your phone's share sheet. Each link can carry a label and a recipient, expires after 90 days unless you say otherwise, and can be capped at so many bookings or revoked.

Bookings takes no payments and no deposits, so keep your existing arrangement for those. It sends no text messages, and it doesn't check a service area, so a site visit from two counties over is still your call.

Bookings is included in the owner workspace at $12 a month. In the free trial it is read-only, so you can look through the setup first. Guest details are stored for you and redacted 12 months after the appointment.

Bookings is the customer side of BizzyBot's scheduling software for small business; the crew's week lives in Shifts.