Let customers book themselves — day or night, without a single phone call
Online scheduling that shows your real availability, takes a deposit up front, and reminds people before they forget. Set up, hosted and looked after by us.
None of this looks like a crisis. It just quietly eats your week and your margin.
Missed calls while you’re with a customer — and they book elsewhere
Twenty minutes of back-and-forth to agree one time slot
The no-show who forgot, and the empty hour you can’t sell
Two people written into the same slot in the paper diary
A booking form sits on your website showing only the times you are genuinely free. Customers pick a service, pick a slot and confirm — while you are asleep, with a customer, or on a job.
Most no-shows are forgetfulness, not rudeness. A confirmation on booking and a reminder the day before is the single cheapest thing you can do about it — and it sends itself.
A customer who has paid a deposit turns up. Take the full amount, a percentage, or nothing at all — the choice is yours, and it can differ by service.
Bookings appear in the calendar you already use, and your personal commitments block out time so nobody can book over your dentist appointment. It works both ways.
Whether you have three stylists, two branches or a yoga class with twelve mats, the system handles who is free, where, and how many people can be booked into the same slot.
You will not need all of it on day one. It is here because businesses grow, and we would rather you never had to move to another system when yours does.
A few clear steps — pick a service, pick a person, pick a time, done. It works on a phone and it never shows a slot you cannot actually keep.
Every service gets its own length, price and rules. A 20-minute trim and a three-hour colour do not have to behave the same way.
Each person has their own working days, their own services and their own login. Nobody sees anybody else’s diary unless you want them to.
Two shops, three rooms, or a mobile service that comes to them. The system keeps each one separate so two people never end up in the same chair.
Sell seats instead of slots. Set how many people a session needs to run and how many it can hold, and let the class fill itself.
For the customers who come back every week. Book the whole run at once, or sell a block of sessions they draw down over time.
A confirmation the moment they book, then a nudge the day before. Sent by email, text message or WhatsApp — whichever your customers read.
Take the full amount, a deposit, or nothing at all — per service. Card and wallet payments go straight to your own merchant account.
The paperwork side. Charge tax correctly, add a booking fee if you take one, and run a promotion without doing sums in your head.
Bookings appear in the calendar you already use, and anything you block out there stops customers booking over it. It runs both ways.
If the appointment happens on a screen, the meeting link is created when they book and sent with the confirmation. Nobody has to chase it.
A private area where they can see what is booked, move it, cancel it within your rules, and book again without typing their details out afresh.
New bookings can add the customer to your mailing list, drop a row in a spreadsheet, or land in your CRM — without anyone retyping anything.
Which services sell, which days are dead, who cancels and how often. Enough to decide whether Tuesday mornings are worth opening for.
A receptionist does not need to see your takings. Roles let you decide exactly what each person can open, change or delete.
It does not care what the appointment is called. A haircut, a lesson, a site visit, a rental — it is all “somebody needs an hour of your day”.
Not on the list? That is normal — the trades above are simply the ones we get asked about most often. If your customers currently phone, text or message you to grab a time, this replaces that. We also build dedicated websites for salons, spas and barbershops, acupuncture and wellness clinics, tax preparers and contractors and trades.
Same system on every plan. What changes is how many staff members have their own diary, and how many places you run. Month to month — no contract to sign.
One person taking their own bookings — a barber, a tutor, a therapist, a consultant.
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
A shop or practice with a few people, where the whole point is that the diaries do not clash.
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
Two or more branches, rooms or vans, run from one screen with reporting across all of them.
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
This is a separate service from our $499 website packages. Booking is priced on its own because we host it, keep it updated and support it every month. If you already have a website with us, we install it into that site at no extra setup cost — you only pay the monthly plan above. Setup and configuration is quoted separately and depends on how many services, staff and locations you need us to build in.
You do not get a login and a manual. We put your services, your prices, your hours and your rules in before you ever see it, then walk you through it.
Your logo, your colours, on your own web address. Customers book on your site and never see a piece of software they have not heard of.
It runs on our servers. We do the updates and the backups, and if something breaks at 4pm on a Friday you call us, not a support queue overseas.
Payments go to your own card processor account. We never sit in the middle of your takings and we do not charge a commission on bookings.
Better you hear this now than find out in month two.
It will not stop every no-show. Reminders and deposits reduce them a great deal, because people either turn up or they have already paid something. But some people will still not come. Anyone promising you zero is selling you something.
It will not bring you customers on its own. It makes booking easy for people who already found you. Getting found is a different job — that is what your Google profile and search work is for.
It is not accounting software. It records what was booked, what was charged and what was paid, and hands your accountant clean figures. Filing your returns is still their job.
It cannot fix hours that are not really your hours. If the calendar says you are free at 3pm and you are not, customers will book 3pm. The system is only ever as honest as what you put into it — we will help you set that up properly at the start.
We do not lock your data up. If you leave, we export your customers and your booking history and hand them over in a format you can actually open. No exit fee, no charge for the export.
Twenty minutes on a screen share. We put your real services, your real hours and your real prices in, then you book a pretend appointment yourself and see exactly what your customer sees.
If it is not right for how you work, we will say so. No pressure and no obligation.
Rather talk first? Call (929) 538-6675 or message us on WhatsApp.
Tell us a little about your business and we will come back within one business day.
Of course, and most businesses do both for a long while. You or your receptionist add the appointment in the back office and it blocks that slot online immediately. The point is not to stop people ringing you — it is to stop the ones who would rather not ring from giving up.
The slot disappears the moment somebody takes it. There is no window where two customers can grab the same appointment, and anything you block out in your own calendar — a dentist visit, a school run — closes that time online too, as long as your calendar is connected.
No. You can set it per service: pay the whole amount now, pay a deposit now, or pay nothing and settle on the day. Plenty of businesses only ask for a deposit on the long, expensive appointments where an empty chair really hurts.
In most cases yes. It goes into your existing site as a page or a button, so customers never leave your web address. If your current site is very old or hosted somewhere that will not allow it, we will tell you honestly at the walkthrough rather than after you have paid.
For a single person with a handful of services, usually a few days. For a shop with several staff, rooms, classes and payment rules it is more like one to two weeks, mostly spent agreeing how you actually want it to behave. We do the building — you answer questions.
They do it themselves from their own page, within whatever window you set — say, up to 24 hours before. Outside that window the buttons are not there and they have to contact you, which is usually the point. Either way you get told straight away and the slot goes back on sale.
They need to learn one screen: today’s diary. That is where they will live. Everything else — services, prices, rules, reports — is set up once by us and then mostly left alone. We train your team on the day it goes live and we are on the phone afterwards.
No. The booking system is a separate monthly service because we host it, keep it updated and support it every month. If your website is already with us we install it into that site at no extra setup cost, and you pay only the monthly plan. Setup for larger businesses is quoted separately.
Each of these stands on its own. They are better together, and we join them up so the same information never gets typed twice.
Already with us for one of these? Ask about bundling them. And if you send another business our way, our referral program pays you for it.
Twenty minutes, your own services in it, and you can decide afterwards.
Advant IT Solutions — web design & technology services by Unizon Inc. Advant Booking is a hosted service configured, branded and supported by Advant IT Solutions and built on licensed third-party software. Plan prices are in US dollars and exclude payment processor fees and SMS or WhatsApp message charges, which are billed by your own card processor and messaging provider. Features available to you depend on the plan you choose. Setup and configuration for larger businesses is quoted separately.