For massage therapists

The gap between two tables is part of your hours too

Between one session and the next there are twenty minutes that are not a luxury: the table is changed, the room is aired, you wash your hands. Here those twenty minutes are not configured anywhere. You publish 14:00 to 14:50 and then 15:10 to 16:00, and what lies between does not exist for whoever is booking.

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Typical length
50–90 min
Booking window
60 days
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The twenty-minute gaps are not a setting. They are the time you decided not to publish.

What a grid does not show

Two are about time. The third is about the room.

  1. The session that starts late and ends worse

    If appointments come out back to back, the three o’clock arrives while the two o’clock is still dressing. You work in a hurry, the session is worth less, and the one waiting hears all of it from the corridor.

  2. Fifty minutes and ninety are not the same thing

    A calendar with one duration forces the choice: either the ninety-minute sports massage is cut short, or the fifty-minute relaxation wastes half an hour of a room you are paying for.

  3. The room you rent three days a week

    Your availability is not yours: it is the days and hours you have the room. Every time somebody asks “can you do Monday?”, you have to remember that Monday is not one of them.

What makes the afternoon fit

Starting with the time you do not publish.

The gap is the time you did not publish

Every window you publish is exactly one appointment. Publish 14:00 to 14:50 and then 15:10 to 16:00, and those twenty minutes in between appear on no list: nobody can book 14:55 or ask you to squeeze something in. There is nothing to configure, because there is nothing configured.

The days you have the room, entered once

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 14:00 to 20:00, are three lines that project themselves across the coming weeks. Monday does not exist because you never entered it, and nobody is going to ask you about Monday.

  • The session booked a fortnight ago

    It goes on its own the day before, once, with the day and the time. In a trade where a session is booked two weeks ahead, that is what separates an appointment from a ninety-minute hole.

  • The ninety minutes that fall through on a Saturday

    Saturday morning is full and whoever asked late joins the list anyway. If somebody cancels, the freed block goes out to them by email and they take it before you notice — which is the only way ninety minutes get sold on a day’s notice.

  • Your afternoon, in the calendar you already look at

    A private, read-only feed for Google Calendar or your phone. If you work in a rented room and also travel to clients, this is where both sit side by side. The feed goes out, not in: what you put in the other end does not block hours here.

How it works

Three steps, and the middle one is no longer yours.

  1. 1

    Your dashboard

    Publish your hours

    Set your week once: which days you work and at what hours, how long an appointment lasts and the break you want between them, and your hours are split into times clients can book. Services can each have their own length. Then add the one-off dates and the days you are closed.

  2. 2

    What your client sees

    Your clients book themselves

    At any hour, from their own account. They pick a slot that is open and the booking is taken then and there, with the day and the time in their own list. Two people cannot end up with the same slot: the database refuses the second booking outright, rather than leaving you to catch it afterwards.

  3. 3

    Your dashboard

    You collect the deposit and the calendar fills

    If you ask for a deposit, the client transfers the money and uploads the receipt, and the deposit is settled once you approve it from your dashboard. A reminder goes out the day before and, if someone cancels, the waitlist hears about it by email.

The first thing we are asked

“Can I leave twenty minutes between sessions?”

Yes, and there is nothing to switch on: you do not publish them. Every time you publish is a complete appointment, so if you publish 14:00 to 14:50 and then 15:10 to 16:00, whoever is booking sees two times and neither one touches the other. The same goes for lunch, for airing the room, and for the whole of Monday. What you did not publish cannot be booked, and that is more reliable than a buffer somebody has to remember to set.

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Common questions

What people ask before they start.

I rent the room three days a week. Can I publish only those days?

Yes: the weekly pattern is per day, so you enter Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and the rest of the week does not exist for whoever is booking. And if the room is unavailable for a month, you block that range without deleting the pattern; remove the block and your three days come back exactly as they were.

Can I sell a course of ten sessions?

The app does not sell courses and does not count how many are left: you take the money and keep that record as you always have. What it does solve is getting all ten dates into the calendar. Raise the cap on appointments per client — or switch it off, which is how it arrives — and they book them in one go; the window runs to two months, so a weekly course almost fits whole.

I also travel to clients. Does it work?

For the calendar, yes; for the logistics, no. The app does not calculate travel and has no idea where anybody lives, so travelling hours are hours you do not publish. The usual arrangement is back-to-back windows on room days and longer, further-apart windows on travelling days.

Do my clients need an account?

That is up to you. Switch guest booking on — it arrives switched off — and a name and an email are enough: no account, no password, the booking is confirmed by email, and that same link is how they cancel. Leave it off and the client creates an account with a confirmed email address, and in exchange sees all their bookings in one place and cancels the ones they cannot make. Either way, they get the reminder by email the day before.

How do deposits work?

You decide whether to ask for a deposit, how much, and in which currency, and you write the transfer instructions your clients see. They transfer the money and upload the receipt; you look at it and approve or reject it from your dashboard. Until you approve it, the receipt shows as pending.

What happens when someone cancels?

Your dashboard updates without a reload. If nobody is waiting on that day, the slot goes back on the public list immediately. If people are queued, the freed slot is emailed to the first few of them and held for half an hour: for that stretch it is offered to nobody else, and the first of them to take it keeps it. If none of them does, it goes back on the public list.

Can I plug it into my website or my calendar?

Yes. There is a widget to paste into your page, so clients book without leaving your site, and an ICS feed you subscribe to from Google Calendar, Outlook or your phone. The feed is read-only: appointments flow into your calendar, but what you put in Google does not block hours here.

Does it work if I also see people without a booking?

Yes. Whoever turns up unbooked you enter by hand, with a name and no account, and they are filed at the time they arrived. And if you want air between two appointments, set a break between appointments in your schedule, and those minutes never reach whoever is booking.

How much does it cost?

The first 30 days are free, with everything included and no card. After that it is a flat monthly subscription: the same price whether you take ten appointments or two hundred, with no commission per booking or per deposit. If you decide not to continue, nothing is charged and your data stays where it is.

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