BookestoFrom your invitation to your first booking
You set this up once. Have your services and prices, your opening hours and a photo or two to hand. You do not need a card.
Setting up
Four steps to a page customers can book
Accept your invitation
Open the link we sent you and create your account with your work email. Sign-up is by invitation for now, so the link is what lets you in.
Then choose your country. It sets your currency and your timezone, and Setup is where you review both later.
Tell us what kind of business you run
Pick the closest match, such as a salon or a court. Bookesto starts you with a service that suits it, and you can change every detail afterwards. If nothing fits, choose to set it up yourself.
Add your location, one service and your hours
Name the location customers will see. Add one service with its length and price, the person who delivers it, and the days and hours they work. One service is enough to take a real booking. You can add the rest later from Services.
Review and publish
Check the summary, then press Publish booking page. Your page is live at its own address straight away. Open it with View booking page and make a test booking on your phone, the way a customer would.
Your first week
What to do once the page is live
- Share your link
- Your booking page is one address. Put it in your Instagram bio, your Google Business profile and your WhatsApp Business profile, and send it to regular customers. Venue has a poster with your QR code to print for the window. A customer picks a service and a time, and leaves a name and phone number. They do not need an account.
- Add your services and team
- Services holds your menu, with a length and a price for each. Team in the workspace invites the people who work with you, and Setup is where each person's bookable hours live. Only people with bookable hours appear on your page.
- Make the page yours
- Venue is where you edit the words and photographs on your booking page, in English and in Arabic. Add your phone number there so customers can reach you. It appears on the page.
- Run the day from Today
- Today shows what is next and who is coming. Calendar shows the whole week. Open any booking to mark the customer as arrived or as a no-show, move it, cancel it or take it through checkout. Phone calls and walk-ins go in by hand, so the diary stays in one place.
- Keep your customers
- Customers holds everyone who has booked with you, with their history and your notes. It is your list, and you can download it as a CSV whenever you want. If you already have a list, Setup has an import.
Your customers
What your customers receive
Automatic email
Every message below is written and tested, and we are connecting the service that delivers it. We will set up your venue once it is running, so your customers never wait for a message that does not arrive.
- A confirmation
- By email, the moment they book, with the time, the place, your phone number and a link to change it.
- A reminder
- By email, before the appointment, so fewer people forget. They can cancel or reschedule from the link.
- A note when you change something
- If you move or cancel a booking, the customer is told by email.
Not on yet
Two things you may look for
Online payment
Customers pay you at the venue, the way they do today. Bookesto takes no card details and never handles that money. Deposits and card holds come later, and they will be your choice to switch on.
WhatsApp messages
Automatic messages are email only. WhatsApp messages are not switched on yet, and we will say so when they are. Customers can already reach you on WhatsApp from your booking page if you add your number.
Help
Stuck on something?
Reach us through our contact page and tell us your business name and what you were trying to do.