When you offer eleven services, the customer’s problem is not booking. It is knowing which one to book. Picktime gives you one page where every service has its own description, its own length and its own price, so somebody chooses correctly at nine at night and the visit you arrive for is the visit that was needed.
Blu HomeBook online
Small repairs2h · Sam$120.00
Gutter clear60m$85.00
Flat-packPer item · KenBook
Next free8:00 AM11:00 AM2:30 PM
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9:10 PM
While you were closed
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$120.00
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What needs doing
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One page, every service, each explaining itself. That is the whole job when the business is broad rather than deep.
Repairs, gutters, appliance fitting, flat-pack, decorating, a general visit. Each with its own words, its own length and its own price, so the customer picks the right one without asking you which.
Send a landlord straight to the gutter page and a new customer to the whole list. Service-specific and team-specific links mean a message can point at exactly one thing rather than at everything.
On the paid plans you write your own questions on every service, so “a few bits” becomes a list before it becomes an appointment. The answers arrive with the booking and the visit is booked at the length it needs.
Nobody in a mixed team does all eleven. Give each person their own hours and their own list of services, and the page will never sell decorating on a day the decorator is not working.
A home services business grows sideways, another van, another town, sometimes another trade, and the thing that breaks first is knowing what is genuinely available where. Each area can run as its own site with its own opening hours, its own people and its own booking link, so a customer in the second town is offered the second town’s availability. Everything anybody is booked into still lands on one colour-coded week.
A broad service list produces a lot of small jobs and a lot of small invoices, and the ones written up on a Sunday from a pocketful of notes are the ones that are wrong or never written at all. Every booking already holds the service, the address, the price and the customer’s own description, and the invoice comes off that record: Paid, Unpaid, Overdue or Refunded against it, a PDF to send, and on the paid plans a reminder when somebody has forgotten.
Five past nine on a Sunday. Somebody has found you on Google, wants a shelf up, a door that sticks and something doing to a radiator, and has no idea whether that is a handyman visit, a carpenter or a plumber, or whether it is one hour or four. So instead of booking anything she sends a message asking you to call her tomorrow.
You will ring on Monday between two jobs, get voicemail, and swap three more messages before a date exists. Picktime lets her read what each service is, pick the one that fits, describe the three jobs in writing and take a real slot, on Sunday night, while she is still thinking about it.
Not “general work”. Small repairs, gutter clearing, appliance fitting, flat-pack, a half day of decorating. Own description, own length, own price. That is what lets somebody choose.
Each person with their own hours and their own list of services; each town as its own site with its own hours and its own link. Nothing gets offered that cannot be delivered.
On the paid plans, ask what needs doing, and about access and parking, on every service. Then share the whole list for new customers and a single-service link for the people who already know what they want.
The one thing a broad service business needs most is somebody available to answer “do you do this?”, and that is exactly what a small firm cannot staff. Picktime’s AI receptionist answers on a number of its own, around the clock and on several calls at once, takes the caller’s name, address and what they want doing, guides them through the services you actually offer, books the right one into your calendar and hands over to you when they would rather have a person. Every call is transcribed, so a list of three jobs described down a phone 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 booking lands in the Google or Outlook calendar your team already run on, and a day blocked out there is never sold here. Payments run through PayPal, or through Stripe or Square on the paid plans, at the moment of booking, and the booking link goes on the Facebook page and the Google profile where local recommendations actually happen.
Picktime opens in a browser on a phone as well as a laptop, and there are iOS and Android apps, so which service was booked, what the customer described and where to park are readable on the drive rather than at the office.
Yes. Picktime’s free plan gives you your own booking page with every service priced separately, an online calendar, customers who book and move their own visits, and email notifications, with no card and no end date.
For a broad service list, the one that can describe eleven different visits clearly on one page and give each its own length. That is what Picktime’s booking page is for, and it is free for a small firm. Where a visit also has to hold a vehicle, and the customer picks the load size before you set off, junk removal scheduling goes through that version of it.
Yes. Every service carries its own description, its own duration and its own price, and the customer sees all three before choosing, so nothing is agreed twice.
Yes. As well as the whole price list, each service and each team member has a link of its own, so a message can point at exactly one thing instead of at everything you do.
Yes, on the paid plans. Write your own booking questions on each service (what needs doing, access, parking, whether anybody will be in), and the answers arrive attached to the booking so the length is right.
Yes. Each area runs as its own site with its own opening hours, its own people and its own booking link, and everything still appears on one calendar.
Yes. Invoices are raised from the booking record, carrying the service, the address and the price. Each shows as Paid, Unpaid, Overdue or Refunded, downloads as a PDF and can be chased with a reminder.
Several, and the word is doing more than one job across them. A free trial has a date on it. A free plan does not, and Picktime’s is the second kind: what the paid plans buy is more people and more locations, not more bookings. Check which of the two you are being handed before you type eleven services and their prices into anything, because doing that twice is the expensive part.
Ask which job you are buying for instead, because “scheduling software” names three different products. One hands out meeting times, one runs a trade diary, and one builds staff rotas; a popularity list counts all three together, which is why it cannot help you choose. For a firm with eleven services the sorting question is narrower: can one page carry all eleven at their own lengths and prices, and does the customer end up booking the right one.
It turns on whether your problem is the booking or the van. If jobs go wrong because a two-hour visit was booked as a half-hour one, the fix is a page where each service carries its own length, price and questions, and Picktime does that free. If your problem is assigning the day’s jobs to vehicles and giving each customer an arrival window, that is field service management: Picktime does not do dispatch or routing, and no amount of booking page substitutes for it.
Yes, Microsoft Bookings, which is included with some Microsoft 365 business subscriptions rather than sold on its own. That makes it a reasonable fit for a firm already running on Microsoft 365 and an odd one for a firm that is not, since you would be buying the subscription for the booking page. It is also built around people and their calendars rather than around a long service list, which is the difference that shows up when you have eleven of them.
Blocks of time Two hours or a half day, sold as time rather than as a task.
See handyman scheduling
Landlords The annual check on a portfolio, with the tenant told rather than the agent.
See home maintenance scheduling
Household help The same helper, the same morning, week after week.
See household services schedulingFree forever for a small home services firm. No card, no trial clock, and every service can be bookable tonight.
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