🗓️ Bookings & scheduling
Clients book real open slots on your public page — conflicts are impossible by design (the database itself refuses overlapping bookings), and anything already on your Google/Outlook calendar blocks slots automatically.
Set up services and availability
- Bookings → Services: add each offering with duration and price (and an optional deposit and contract).
- Bookings → Availability: set your weekly hours and timezone; add buffers between sessions, minimum notice, and a max-per-day if you want breathing room.
- Use date overrides for days off or special hours — an override replaces that day's weekly rules.
- Flip on “Accept bookings” — your page is live at yourhandle.showpiece.studio/book.
Connect your calendar (two-way)
- Bookings → Availability → connect Google Calendar or Microsoft/Outlook.
- Out: confirming a booking creates a calendar event; cancelling removes it.
- In: anything busy on your calendar — personal appointments, other jobs — blocks those booking slots automatically.
- Also available: subscribe Apple Calendar (or anything) to your bookings via the iCal feed, and paste any external calendar's .ics URL to fold its busy times in.
The booking flow
A request comes in as pending (you get email + push). The slot is held instantly — no double booking during your decision. Confirm or decline from Bookings; the client is notified either way, and every booking has a built-in message thread the client can use without an account — including self-service reschedule and cancel.
Mini-sessions
- Bookings → Services → Mini-session events: pick a date, a time window, and a slot length (e.g. 20 minutes).
- Share the event page — clients grab slots first-come-first-served, with deposits if the service has one.
Booking on your own website
Bookings → Setup has a one-line embed snippet — paste it into any website (Squarespace, WordPress, custom) and your booking flow appears right there, auto-sized.