You are paid for the hours you spend designing and you spend a good many of them arranging when to meet. Picktime puts the consultation and the design review on your own booking page, keeps your studio days off it entirely, and lets a client who needs to move next Tuesday move it themselves, so the afternoon you set aside for drawing is still there at four o’clock. Collecting the brief on the booking form is on the paid plans.
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First consultation45m$0.00
Design review90m$180.00
Site visit2hBook
Next free9:15 AM11:00 AM4:30 PM
The brief
Arrived first
Asked on the booking form
Deposit
$45.00
25% on the design review
Thursday
Off the page
The day you draw in
Every one of these is an hour you would otherwise spend agreeing when to have an hour, on a week when the planning submission is due on Friday. Once there are four or five of you and a client wants the architect who is actually on their project, the arithmetic changes, and booking a multi-architect practice is the page that deals with it.
One link, listing what you actually offer and how long each takes. A client picks an afternoon you are genuinely free rather than proposing three you are not, and it is booked without a reply from you.
Writing your own questions on the booking form is on the paid plans: the address, the budget bracket, whether there is a survey, whether it is listed. You open the appointment already knowing what the job is.
Say which days take meetings and which do not. A studio day is simply never offered, so nobody has to be told no and the week does not fill up from the outside in.
A concept sign-off is not a technical review and neither is a snag list. Each one is its own bookable thing, so an hour is never given to something that was always going to take two.
The confirmation goes out when the client books, carrying a way to move it, and a reminder before the day is on the paid plans. A client who cannot come says so the night before rather than leaving you sitting in the studio.
Somebody who has just decided to extend their house does not want to negotiate a date; they want it settled. A link in your reply, on your website and in the footer of every drawing you issue turns the enquiry into a booked consultation while they are still reading about you. It also filters: the questions on the form are yours, so an enquiry about a job you do not take is visible before you have given it an afternoon.
Clients move design reviews more than they move anything else, usually because the structural engineer has not come back or the builder has. Every confirmation carries a link they use to pick another time from what is actually free, so it happens without an exchange of messages during the hour you had put aside for drawing. The slot they release goes back on the page, which matters on a week where somebody else is waiting for a date and you have been telling them you have nothing.
Five past six. The elevation you set Thursday aside for is at the same stage it was at half nine, and the reason is sitting in your sent folder: eleven messages, four of them proposing times, three of them apologising for proposing times that had gone.
Picktime takes that off you entirely. The consultation and the review are on a page, the client picks from hours you are genuinely free, the brief arrives with the booking, and Thursday stays a studio day because Thursday was never offered.
A first consultation, a concept review, a technical review, a site visit, each with its length and its fee if it has one. Say what you want asked on the form before anybody books.
Put your working hours in, keep your studio days off the page entirely and add the weeks you are away. The page cannot offer what you have not opened.
Your website, your email signature, your practice profile, or a QR code on the back of a card. They book, the confirmation goes out without you writing it, and on a paid plan the brief comes with it.
The free plan is a plan, not a trial. There is no date at which it stops, no card to add, and nothing that quietly turns off in a fortnight.
A booked consultation lands in the calendar you already keep, and a day you block out there stops being offered on your page, which is what stops a client taking the morning you had given to a site visit. On the paid plans a review happening on Zoom, Meet or Teams gets its link made with the booking and sent on the confirmation.
It runs in a phone browser and there are iOS and Android apps, so on a site visit you can see who is booked in this afternoon and what they wrote on the form before you meet them.
This page assumes one architect. You are the practice, the diary is yours, and the thing being protected is the day you draw in. Three others cover what happens when that stops being true, and they divide by what is being booked rather than by how big the office is.
When it is people, and there are several of them, go to client booking for an architecture practice. Five architects means five sets of site days, and the hard part is that a client wants the one who is actually on their project rather than the first free hour in the building.
When the person being booked works for the council and the second audience is a village hall, read planning consultation booking software. A pre-application meeting and a public consultation evening are not the same kind of thing at all: one is an hour that has to suit three diaries, the other is forty chairs and a number that has to stop.
And when the argument on a Tuesday is about the crit room rather than about anybody’s time, room and equipment booking for a studio is the page. The plotter, the model shop and the good meeting room behave like bookable objects with their own hours, which is a different job from booking the people who want them.
Yes. Picktime is free forever for one architect: your own booking page for consultations and reviews, clients moving their own appointments, an email confirmation on every booking and every client’s history in one place. No card and no end date. Your own brief questions on the form and reminders sit on the paid plans.
Most practices run drawing software, a project tool and then arrange meetings by email, which is the part that costs the drawing day. Picktime replaces only that last part, so it sits alongside whatever you draw and plan in.
Yes, and it is the most useful setting on the page. A day you have not opened is never offered, so a studio day protects itself and nobody has to be told no.
Yes, on the paid plans. You write the booking form questions yourself (the site address, the budget bracket, whether there is a survey, whether it is listed), and the answers arrive attached to the appointment.
Yes. Set a fee on the consultation and take the whole thing or a percentage of it at booking, through PayPal on the free plan or Stripe or Square on a paid one, into your own account. A free introductory call and a paid consultation can sit on the same page.
Yes. Every confirmation carries a link they use to move or cancel (as does every reminder, on the paid plans), and the hour they release goes back onto your page for the next person waiting for a date.
No. Picktime books appointments. It holds no drawing register, no programme and no task list. It is deliberately the diary half, and it is free to run alongside whatever you manage the job in.
Consultations A first conversation booked from a link, with the brief already answered.
See design consultation scheduling
Project calls Kick-off calls and reviews booked without a thread proposing three times.
See design studio scheduling
Shoots A shoot booked with the location and the shot list answered before the day.
See photographer schedulingFree forever for one architect. No card, no trial clock, and your consultations can be bookable before you leave tonight.
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