Your own free booking page open at eleven at night, when you are not
A page of your own where clients see your real availability and take a slot themselves. It works without a website, it is free forever, and it stops the part of your week that is spent telling people what times you have left.
Four things your booking page does that a scheduling link does not
It shows what is actually free
The page reads your real calendar, so a slot is only offered while it is genuinely open. Two people looking at the same Thursday are looking at the same Thursday, and the one who books it takes it out of the other’s list.
It works with no website at all
The page has its own address you can put in a bio, a message or a poster. If you do have a site the same page embeds into it, and the free plan carries the widget.
It looks like you, not like a form
Your logo, your colours, a banner, a welcome message and your services grouped the way you group them. Thirteen layouts, from a dense list to a page led by one large image.
It asks what you need before they arrive
Add your own questions to the booking so the answers are in the record rather than in a conversation on the day. That one is on the paid plans.
- Note
- Old knee injury, left side
- CrossFit so far
- None
- Gloves
- Yes
Thirteen templates, and the difference is what the page leads with
The same services and the same availability, arranged thirteen noticeably different ways. Booking page design here is arrangement rather than content: changing template does not change a word of it.
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Directory
Every service visible at once, nothing above them.
Long service menusWhen people already know what they want -
Clean
Services as cards with room to breathe, under a modest header.
Most businessesThe middle setting, and the one most stay on -
Showcase
A large visual band above the services.
Places people look atWhen the room or the work sells the booking -
Soft
The same cards, rounded and spaced further apart.
Calm, low-volume tradesWhen the page should feel unhurried -
Spotlight
A hero band leading into the services beneath it.
A signature serviceWhen one thing is the reason they came -
Split Rail
Who you are pinned down one side, services scrolling past it.
Single-location tradesWhen the name and address do the selling -
Split Rail Wide
A full-width banner above the rail and the services.
Venues and studiosWhen you want both a banner and a rail -
Poster
Uppercase headings over a full-bleed image, with the services in rows beneath.
Studios with a strong lookWhen people should see the brand before the prices -
Pinned
A fixed colour panel holds your name while the list of services runs beside it.
Personal brandsWhen people are booking you as much as the service -
Bands
Full-bleed bands of colour split the page into sections, each with its own cards.
Several kinds of bookingWhen services, classes and resources each want a section -
Playful
A painted sky across the top, a ticker running under it, and rounded cards below.
Family and children’s activitiesWhen a lighter tone suits the people booking -
Rounded
A rounded header card over a catalogue of services set on a band of colour.
Rentals and equipmentWhen what you offer reads like a catalogue -
Cinematic
A dark hero over a pair of cards, with rails of services below.
Entertainment and experiencesWhen people browse for something to do
The booking page is free. Some of what you can put on it is not.
On Pro
- Your own booking page, with its own address to share
- Booking page in 20+ languages
- A custom booking flow
- Approve bookings
- CAPTCHA on the booking page
On Starter
- Your own booking page, with its own address to share
- Specific booking links
- Your own questions at booking
- Login required for bookings
- Automatic timezone conversion
On Free
- Your own booking page, with its own address to share
- A Facebook booking widget
- Embeds for WordPress, Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, Joomla and Drupal
- Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel
- PayPal payments
The page and the bookings
The address, the branding and everything booked through it are yours on any plan, including the free one, and your contacts export whenever you want them.
How much you can shape it
Extra questions, per-service links and approval sit on the paid plans. The page still takes bookings without any of them.
The booking happens when you are busy, or it does not happen
The hours people want to book you are the hours you are working. Somebody decides on a Tuesday evening that they need an appointment, finds a phone number, and gets an answer the following afternoon, by which time the decision has gone cold or somebody else has had it.
Every call you return is a booking you nearly lost. The ones you do not return are not in the diary and are not in any figure you look at, which is what makes them so easy to carry on losing.
A booking page does not sell harder than you do. It just stops the sale needing you to be free at the same moment the customer is.
Tue 19:40Finds you on social media
No online booking15 h
- Tue 19:41Calls, no answer
- Wed 09:30Books elsewhere
- Wed 10:40You call back, too late
Booking lost
With online booking1 min
- Tue 19:41Picks 10:00
- Tue 19:41Confirmation sent
- Tue 19:41No calls needed
BookedThu 10:00
What the page has to do changes with what you sell
Three trades, three quite different jobs for the same page.
Booked while you are on the floor Salons and barbers
The busiest hours to book are the busiest hours to work. A page takes the evening traffic that a ringing phone never catches.
See salon scheduling
Filled before the term starts Classes and courses
People sign up for a term in one sitting, usually at night. A list of sessions with spaces on it does that without a single message.
See class scheduling
Booked by people who never call Rooms and spaces
A hirer wants to see what is free on the 14th, not ask. The page is the whole enquiry, answered.
See room bookingWhat people say about Picktime
Great free software. I have had a great overall experience with Picktime. It has been great to have a link I can send to my customers for them to follow and schedule an appointment. I love that this is free!
I love this company. Packed full of features, this software works perfectly and the customer support is outstanding! I am so happy with this company, I liked everything about this software.
This program is very essential for us, because it helps us to schedule the appointments we have with colleagues from other companies, clients and new staff of the organization. Every time we schedule an appointment there is never a clash of schedules.
Questions people ask about booking page
Do I need a website to use it?
No. The page has its own address that works on its own, and plenty of businesses use nothing else. If you do have a site, the same page embeds into it.
Can clients book without making an account?
Yes, on any plan. Guest booking is on by default, so somebody can book with a name and a contact address and nothing more. Requiring a login is a setting on the paid plans if you would rather they did.
Can I stop people booking at three in the morning for nine the same day?
That is what the booking rules do: how much notice you need, how far ahead people can book, and which hours are offered at all. They are set on your side and the page only ever offers what they allow.
Can I send someone straight to one service?
On the paid plans, yes: specific links point at a single service, class, resource or team member, so somebody arrives at the thing you told them about rather than at the whole menu.
What happens when two people click the same slot?
The first booking to complete takes it, and the slot leaves the page for everybody else. The second person is looking at your real availability, so they see what is left rather than a clash you have to sort out afterwards.
Can I change the look later?
Any time, and it changes nothing about your services, your availability or the bookings you have already taken. Switching template is a display choice, not a rebuild.
Does it work on a phone?
There is no separate booking page app to download: the page is built for a phone first, because that is where most people meet it, usually from a link in a bio or a message rather than from a search.
Can I take money on the page?
Yes. Deposits, full payment or a flat fee, set per service, into your own PayPal on the free plan and Stripe or Square on the paid ones.
What is a booking page?
A page of your own where clients see your real availability and take a slot themselves. It carries your services, your hours and whoever is free, and a booking made on it lands straight in your calendar.
How do I create a booking page?
Sign up, add your services and your hours, and the page your regulars save as my booking page already exists at your own Picktime address. There is nothing to design and no website needed, and you can change how it looks later without the link changing.
What is the best free booking website?
There is no single answer, because the free plans differ on what they cap rather than on what they cost. Picktime is free with no end date and no trial clock, and the plan comparison names which limits sit on it. Square and Setmore publish free tiers too, so the check worth doing is which of them caps the thing your week is actually made of.
Where can I find my Microsoft Bookings page?
That one is a Microsoft question rather than a Picktime one: a Bookings page lives inside your Microsoft 365 account, and its published link comes from the Bookings app there. If you arrived here because Bookings will not take a payment or will not share work evenly across staff, those are the two gaps Microsoft documents itself, and the head-to-head covers both. A Picktime booking page is a separate address you get at signup, and nothing has to move out of Microsoft 365 for you to try one.
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