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You can add them yourself. Clients don't need to use your public booking page for a booking to show up in your account. You can click Add client to save someone's contact details ahead of time, or use New booking to log an appointment yourself. That's handy for phone calls, emails, walk-ins and referrals. Price it from your services and add-ons, or choose Custom quote to enter a one-off price you've already agreed. It works like your booking page: add more than one person, pet or vehicle to one booking (if you've turned that on), answer your own booking questions, apply a coupon code, and see your open times for the day - required questions can be left blank, and you can still pick any time. These bookings sit in the same account as your online ones, so you can keep all your clients and appointments in one place. Once one is Confirmed, the client is emailed a confirmation, just like an online booking - or open the booking and click Email client to send the details from your own email.

No - it depends on your business type. Businesses that always go to the client (cleaning, handyman, movers...) start with the address on and required; studio, office and online businesses start with it off; and if you offer both, a location like "Your home" or "We come to you" asks for the address only when a client picks it. You control it in Settings > Booking form: tick or untick Collect an address and Require an address, and on each location in Settings > Locations tick Ask for the client's address when this location is picked. Your own business address can still be shown on your booking page. You can change it any time.

No. 1MinuteBooking is entirely web-based - it works from any browser on desktop or mobile, nothing to install.

You share your booking page link - in your bio, a text, an email, your website. Clients open it, pick a service and time, and submit a request - you confirm it, or with Instant booking on, it's confirmed straight away. That's it - no app, no setup on your end beyond sharing the link.

Yes. When you mark a booking Completed, the client is emailed a thank-you with a Book again button. It opens your booking page with their details and last booking already filled in - they just pick a new date and time, at your current prices. It's sent once per booking (quotes get it without Book again), and you can turn it off in Settings. For a regular on a set schedule, you can also enter a repeating booking yourself on New booking - every 1 to 4 weeks, up to 26 visits. How rebooking works.

Yes. Clients get a reminder email before each confirmed appointment, whether they booked online or you added the booking - 24 hours before by default, or 2, 4, 12 or 48 hours, set in Settings > Notifications. You can also let clients reschedule or cancel online up to a cutoff you set (24 hours before by default) from the Manage booking button in their emails. You're emailed about every change, and nothing is refunded automatically. It's all email - there are no text messages.

Yes, on the Pro plan - accent color (buttons, selected options, prices), page background, text color, and card background are all customizable with a live preview, or you can reset to the defaults in one click. The Free plan uses the default color scheme.

Yes, also a Pro feature - upload your logo and it appears at the top of your booking page. Every plan shows a cover photo and a photo beside each service, picked from our photo library; Pro lets you upload your own, and adds a link to your Google reviews.

Yes, if you turn on "Allow multiple services to be selected at once" in Settings > Service types - you can apply it to all your services or restrict which ones can be combined with each other. A service left unchecked can still be booked on its own, it just can't be paired with anything else.

Yes - turn on "Let clients book more than one dog, person or vehicle at once" in Settings > Service types and type your word (dog, person, vehicle, student). Clients tap "+ Add another dog" and give each one its own services, add-ons and answers, up to 3. They're done back-to-back: the time and price add up, while the date, location and contact details are asked once and a travel charge counts once. It starts on for dog groomers, salons, barbers, nail techs, car detailers and music teachers.

Yes - Add-ons let you charge for optional extras, each with its own price and, if you want, extra time added to the appointment. You can restrict an add-on to specific services, let clients pick a quantity (e.g. 3 bedrooms, up to a max you set), or make it required for certain services.

Yes - Business hours are set per day of the week, each with its own open and close time, all shown in your account's timezone.

Yes. Your account runs on your own time zone (every Canadian zone and the US mainland, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico - with Saskatchewan, Arizona and Yukon on no daylight saving - plus the UK, Ireland, Portugal, Central European time, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan), suggested automatically when you sign up. Every slot, notice window, booking limit, blackout date, coupon expiry and reminder follows your clock, not the server's, and stays correct on the days the clocks change. Clients see "Times are in Eastern Time (Toronto, Montreal), EDT" above the times, so someone booking from another time zone doesn't mistake them for their own, and calendar sync puts each booking at the right moment in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar.

Yes - you can require a minimum notice window (in hours) before a slot can be booked, and separately cap how many days in advance someone can book (90 days by default, adjustable up to 365).

Yes - buffer time adds a fixed gap of 5 to 60 minutes on both sides of each booked appointment, so no other booking can be placed right up against it.

Yes - choose USD, CAD, GBP, EUR, AUD, or NZD in your business settings and every price on your booking page uses it. If you connect Stripe, the currency is locked to your Stripe account's currency after that.

Yes, when your bookings come in as requests (the default for most business types) - a pending request holds its time slot until you confirm or decline it, so no one else is offered that time while you decide. With Instant booking on, it starts off instead, since bookings are confirmed as they arrive. Change it any time with Pending appointments block availability. A declined request, or one in your Spam folder, never holds time.

Yes - Blackout dates mark specific dates as fully unavailable, with an optional reason for your own reference.

Yes - add your locations in Settings > Locations, then turn on Ask clients to pick a location so clients choose one with radio buttons or several with checkboxes, depending on how you set it up. Each location can add an extra price and a travel time, and can ask for the client's address only when it's picked. You can also add a note above the options, like your address or parking details.

Yes - give a location an extra price and a travel time in Settings > Locations. The price is added to the client's total and shown next to the location. To charge by distance, add a location for each distance zone (for example "Within 20 miles" at no charge and "20-40 miles away" for +$20). The travel time is only for you: it blocks your calendar before the appointment (or before and after, if you choose) so nobody books into your drive, but it isn't shown to the client or added to their appointment length. How travel time and fees work.

Yes - coupons apply a percent or flat-amount discount to the pre-tax subtotal, with an optional expiry date. A booking can never be discounted below $0.

No, it's off by default - turn on "Charge tax on bookings," set a rate, and optionally add a tax ID number to show on receipts.

Choose any of cash, credit card, e-transfer, PayPal, Cash App and cheque, and drag them into the order you want - the booking page shows them in that order. These are just labels the client picks - 1MinuteBooking itself never processes or touches that money. The one exception is the separate, optional Stripe Payments feature, which does run a real charge through the site if you turn it on.

Yes - Settings > Policies & terms lets you require acceptance of your own terms and conditions text, plus show a cancellation policy with a notice window you set (e.g. 24 hours).

Yes - paste one line of code from Settings > Share & embed and clients book right on your website: a floating button that stays in the corner, a popup button, or your whole booking page built into the page, with your own button text, color and shape. It works with WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify and any site that takes custom HTML (on Wix and GoDaddy you use their "Embed a site" element), and card payments, deposits and spam protection work there too. There's also a plain link for a social media bio. See how it looks, or read how the booking widget works.

It's on from the start. An "I'm human" check (hCaptcha) fights bots - each visitor's first request goes straight through, so most real clients never see it. Every booking's connection is checked, and VPN or proxy traffic is flagged Unverified. Requests from your spam countries, with your spam words or from connections you've marked as spam go to a Spam folder: it never holds a time slot, and the sender isn't told. Requests from clients you've blocked are quietly dropped. How spam protection works.

Both. Your page's slug (the part after /book/) can be edited any time, as long as it's lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens and not already taken. A separate toggle takes your whole booking page offline - visitors see your business name and "We're not taking bookings right now. Please check back soon," with your phone and email - while you keep full access to log in and manage settings.

Yes, on Pro - export every appointment (client contact info, service, date and time, price, and status) to an Excel file, optionally filtered by date range and status.

Very - add-ons support client-set quantities (with a min/max you choose), preset single- or multi-choice options where each option has its own price and duration, restriction to specific service types, and can be marked required only for those service types. Service types themselves can also carry a quantity and have their own rules for which combinations are allowed together. See the full customization breakdown for every control.

Yes - up to 25 Custom Fields, each a free-text, single-choice, or multiple-choice question, independently markable as required and reorderable, on top of the built-in name, email, phone and address fields - email and phone can each be optional or required, and the address can be off, optional or required.

For a solo operator's own pricing logic and booking-form questions specifically, yes - conditional per-service add-on requirements, quantity and preset-option pricing, and up to 25 custom questions are all native to the free plan, with no staff/per-seat pricing to unlock them. See how it compares to BookingKoala and Square Appointments.