Two appointments decide whether a flooring job happens: an hour in the showroom with samples on a table, and a measure at the house. Picktime lets a customer book either from a page of your own, asks how many rooms and what is down now, and holds the showroom table so two consultations never land on it at once.
Blu FloorsBook online
Showroom consultation1h · Sample table 1Free
Home measure30m · Estimator$45.00
Follow-up30m · Samples homeBook
Next freeSat 10:00 AMSat 1:00 PMSun 11:00 AM
Booked online
9:40 PM
A floor chosen on a Sunday
Rooms and floor
Answered
Before the estimator drives
Table and salesperson
Both free
Or the hour is not offered
An hour with samples, and a half hour with a tape measure. Both booked without a phone call, both on one calendar.
People choose flooring on a Sunday night with a tablet on their knees. A page that takes the booking then means Monday starts with an appointment rather than a message.
A consultation table or a design desk is a bookable thing, so two customers are never given the same hour at the same table on a busy Saturday.
How many rooms, what is down now, whether it needs lifting, whether there are stairs. Your own questions, on the paid plans, answered when the measure is booked, so the visit is the right length.
A confirmation when it is booked, and on the paid plans a reminder before the day, each with a link to move it. A showroom hour that nobody turns up for is an hour a salesperson could have had.
The person behind the samples on a Saturday is not the person with the laser on a Tuesday morning. Give each salesperson and each estimator their own working hours, their own days off and only the services they carry out, and the page will not offer a home measure on a day the estimator is out. Everything anybody is booked into is on one colour-coded calendar, so the showroom rota and the measure diary stop being two different pieces of paper.
Almost nobody buys a floor at the first appointment. The confirmation carries a link back to the page, and on the paid plans the reminder carries it too, so the customer who has taken three samples home can put the follow-up in themselves when they have decided, rather than waiting for a salesperson to ring on a Wednesday. Every past appointment stays against their name with what was asked and answered, so whoever picks it up is not starting the conversation again.
Twenty past eleven on the busiest morning of the week. Two couples came in without warning, one has an appointment somebody wrote in a book, and the fourth has driven forty minutes on the strength of a phone call nobody made a note of. There is one table with samples on it and one salesperson who can actually price a job.
Picktime gives the Saturday a shape before it starts: consultations booked to a time and to a table, confirmed in writing, and the estimator’s week visible on the same calendar as the showroom.
A showroom consultation, a home measure, a follow-up, a commercial site visit. Give each a length and say whether it happens at the showroom or at the customer’s address.
Salespeople and estimators with their own hours and services; the sample table or design desk as a bookable resource so two consultations never share it.
Rooms, existing floor, stairs, whether furniture needs moving. Write them as booking fields and the answers arrive with the appointment.
A flooring showroom’s phone rings hardest at exactly the moment everybody in it is with a customer. The Picktime AI receptionist answers on its own number, around the clock and on several calls at once, so nobody rings out. It takes the caller’s name and number, guides them through what you offer, books the consultation or the measure straight into the calendar and transfers to a person when the caller wants one. Every call is transcribed, so a Saturday enquiry about a commercial job is written down rather than half remembered on Monday.
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.
An appointment lands in the Google or Outlook calendar the business already runs on, and the paid plans sync it both ways, so a Saturday somebody has booked off is never offered to a customer. A deposit on an order can be taken through PayPal when the appointment is made, or through Stripe or Square on the paid ones.
Picktime opens in a browser on a phone as well as a laptop, and there are iOS and Android apps, so an estimator between measures can see the next address and what the customer said about it without going back to the showroom.
Yes. Picktime has a free forever plan with no card and no end date: your own booking page, an online calendar, customers booking and moving their own appointments, and email notifications. You pay when there are more people on the account.
Yes. Put the hours you can genuinely give somebody on your page and they take one, including on a Sunday evening when most flooring is actually chosen.
Yes. Add the table or the design desk as a bookable resource. A consultation is only offered when the table is free and the table is held against the appointment.
Yes. Write your own booking questions (rooms, existing floor, stairs, furniture), and the answers arrive attached to the appointment, so the visit is booked at the right length.
Yes. Every salesperson and estimator has their own hours and their own services on one colour-coded calendar, so a Saturday in the showroom and a Tuesday measure are the same diary rather than two.
Yes. Every confirmation carries a link to book again, move or cancel. The reminder does too, on the paid plans. The customer who took samples home puts the follow-up in when they have decided.
It is built for the appointments in front of the sale (the showroom hour, the home measure, the follow-up), booked on your own page and held on one calendar with the table and the estimator. If that is what your Saturdays look like, it fits.
Not this, and not any scheduling tool. Estimating turns a measurement into a materials list and a price, which is what a takeoff package does, and it is a separate purchase from the diary. Picktime books the appointment where the measurement gets taken and holds the answers to your own booking questions about rooms, stairs and existing floor, so the estimator arrives knowing roughly what is waiting. The number itself is worked out somewhere else.
Picktime does not measure anything, so we are the wrong people to ask. The laser and takeoff apps that do it are their own market, and estimators who use one daily tend to have a firm preference already. What we would say is that the measure goes wrong less often than the measure appointment does: booked at the wrong length, or booked by somebody who did not know there were stairs.
Picktime keeps a customer record and the history of every appointment against it, which is enough for a lot of small dealers, but it is not a pipeline. If you need deal stages, quotes chased through them and a report on which salesperson closed what, that is a CRM and this is not one. Where the two overlap, the appointment is often the better record anyway: a customer who has had a measure and no follow-up booked is the one worth ringing on Monday.
No honest answer exists. Vendors do not publish user counts anybody can check, and the review sites rank by how many reviews a product has gathered, which measures how hard a company asks rather than how many people use it. For a flooring dealer the useful comparison is narrower: can it hold a showroom hour, a home measure and an estimator’s day in one diary, and can the customer book the follow-up without ringing you. Plenty of the popular answers fail the first half of that.
Estimates The measure-and-quote visit booked into a week that is already full.
See painting contractor scheduling
Consultations A first conversation booked from a link, with the brief already answered.
See design consultation scheduling
Site visits A measure at the house and the workshop hours that follow it.
See carpentry schedulingFree forever for a single showroom. No card, no trial clock, and consultations can be bookable this evening.
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