Nobody fits a garage door on the first visit. Somebody measures, a door gets ordered and somebody comes back, and the gap between those two is where deposits, dates and customers get lost. Picktime books the survey off a page, holds the fitting against the same customer, and confirms each visit by email as it is booked.
Blu DoorsBook online
Spring repair90 min · 48h notice$180.00
Survey30 minFree
Door fittingFull day · install pairBook
Next freeTue 10:00Wed 8:00Thu 8:00
Booked online
9:40 PM
While the van was still out
Deposit
$45.00
Taken before the door is ordered
Pair and van
Both free
Or the day is not offered
Two visits, weeks apart, with money in between. Everything here is about not losing anything in that gap.
A measure is half an hour, a broken spring is a morning and a full install is a day. Put each on the page at its real length so the customer books the one they need at the hour it takes.
The second visit goes into the calendar against the same customer, with the measurements, the door and the deposit already on the record. Nobody has to ring anybody to find out what was agreed in April.
A sectional door cut to somebody’s opening cannot be sold to anybody else. Take the deposit through PayPal on the free plan, or through Stripe or Square on a paid one, set per service, so the survey is free and the order is not.
A fitting booked in April and happening in June is a date nobody has thought about since. A confirmation goes out on the free plan and a reminder before each visit is on the paid ones, each with a link to move it, which is what stops a van arriving at an empty house.
Garage door work splits cleanly in two: repairs that need doing this week and installs planned weeks out, and they want completely different treatment from a booking page. Decide which hours the page may sell for each and how much notice a booking needs, so repair slots stay near the front of the diary while fittings go into whole days further out. Nothing you have kept back is ever offered, so you never have to argue with your own calendar.
An install usually takes two people and a particular van; a spring change takes one person and a winding bar. Give each fitter their own hours and only the work they carry out, and add the install van or the lifting gear as bookable equipment so a day that needs it is only offered while it is free. Everything anybody is booked into sits on one colour-coded week, so a Thursday that is genuinely gone stops looking available.
Quarter past seven on a Monday. Somebody has pressed a button, heard a bang and now has a car locked in a garage and forty minutes before work. They have found three garage door firms on their phone, all of which open at eight thirty, and they are ringing every one of them in turn.
Whichever number lets them do something at quarter past seven gets the job. A page that shows a genuinely free slot at eleven, takes the booking and confirms it means they stop dialling, and you find out at seven fifteen rather than at nine when somebody else is already on the way.
Half an hour, a morning and a full day. Three different lengths and three different prices, so an install is never booked into a repair slot or the other way round.
Connect PayPal on the free plan, or Stripe or Square on a paid one, and take a deposit at the point a door is ordered to somebody’s opening. The measure itself can stay free, which is what gets it booked.
Each fitter with their own week and their own work, the install van as bookable equipment, and the notice you need on repairs. Then put the booking link where somebody at quarter past seven will find it.
The garage door calls that convert are the ones nobody is awake for. Picktime’s AI receptionist answers on a number of its own, around the clock and on several calls at once, so somebody with a car trapped at seven fifteen reaches a voice rather than an answerphone. It takes their name, number and address, walks them through the repairs and surveys you take bookings for, books the next genuinely free slot into your calendar and hands over to you when they want a person. Every call is transcribed, so what they said about the bang is written down.
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 survey or a fitting lands in the Google or Outlook calendar already on your phone, and a day blocked there is never sold here. Deposits run through PayPal on the free plan and through Stripe or Square on the paid ones when the door is ordered, and the booking link goes on the Google Business profile somebody finds standing in front of a garage at seven in the morning.
Picktime opens in a browser on a phone as well as a laptop, and there are iOS and Android apps, so the measurements taken in April and the door that was ordered are readable on the drive in June.
Yes. Picktime’s free plan gives you your own booking page, an online calendar, customers who book and move their own appointments and email notifications, with no card and no end date.
For this trade, one that can hold two linked visits (a survey now and a fitting weeks later) against the same customer with the deposit and the measurements on the record. That is how Picktime is set up here.
Yes. The second visit goes into the calendar against the same customer, and the survey, the measurements and the deposit are already held there, so nobody is reconstructing April in June.
Yes. Payment is set per service, so a survey can be free while the order takes a deposit through PayPal, which is on the free plan, or through Stripe or Square on a paid one. A door cut to somebody’s opening cannot be sold to anybody else.
Yes. You decide which hours the page may sell for each and how much notice a booking needs, so repairs stay near the front of the diary and fittings take whole days further out. The same split covers the plannable half of a locksmith’s week, where a lockout cannot be booked ahead and a lock change can.
Yes. Add the install van or the lifting gear as bookable equipment and a job that needs it is only offered when it is free, held against the booking rather than hoped for.
They get a confirmation when it is booked, and on the paid plans a reminder before the day as well, each carrying a link to move it, which is what stops two fitters and a van arriving at an empty house.
Several, and what separates them is where each one stops. Picktime’s free plan has no end date and no card behind it, and it covers a booking page, the calendar, customers moving their own appointments and an email notification on each one, for up to three people. The reminder before the day, the fitting booked as a linked second visit and more than two locations are on the paid plans. Compare free tiers on which of those they hold back rather than on the word free.
Not this one, and it is worth saying so plainly. Picktime is the diary a garage door company runs its surveys, fittings and repairs from, so what it books is the engineer’s visit. Opening the door is a job for the controller the opener manufacturer supplies, and no booking software touches it.
Two trades share the word garage, so the answer splits before it starts. A vehicle workshop wants job cards, parts and MOT dates, and that is a different product from anything on this page. A garage door company is deciding something narrower: whether the software can hold a survey and a fitting weeks apart against the same customer, with the measurements and the deposit still on the record when the second visit comes round.
Measure and make A paid design consultation, then the workshop days it produces.
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Measure A showroom consultation and the measure visit that follows it.
See flooring scheduling
Return visits A call-out taken at booking and a second visit booked when the part lands.
See appliance repair schedulingFree forever for a two-person firm. No card, no trial clock, and your surveys can be bookable before the morning rush.
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