Booking engine selection
Amelia, Bookly, WooCommerce Bookings or a custom flow — chosen against your actual model: services, staff, locations, resources, group sizes, durations.
Build · Specialised
For a clinic, salon, studio, tour operator or consultant, the website has one job: turn interest into a confirmed, paid booking without a phone call. We build booking sites around that job — the right engine for your business model, payments and deposits at booking, reminders that cut no-shows, and calendars that never double-book.
The problem
Every booking needs a human, which means bookings end when the workday does — and competitors book while you sleep.
The website, the phone and the walk-ins are not on one calendar, and clients pay for the confusion.
Unconfirmed, unpaid bookings are easy to abandon. Empty slots cost the same as staffed ones.
A generic booking plugin forced onto multi-staff, multi-location or resource-based scheduling it was never built for.
How it works
Questions
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The one that matches your model. Amelia handles multi-staff, multi-location service businesses gracefully; Bookly is strong for straightforward appointments; WooCommerce Bookings fits when bookings live inside a wider store; and genuinely unusual models get a custom flow. We pick from evidence of fit — the wrong engine is the most common thing we replace.
Yes, through your own payment gateway — full payment, fixed deposits or percentages, per service. It is the single most effective no-show reducer we implement: a booking with money attached is a booking people keep, and cancellations become manageable policy instead of empty chairs.
Yes — two-way sync per staff member, so external commitments block online slots and online bookings appear in their calendar. Combined with buffers and working-hours rules, the system maintains one calendar of record. Double-bookings stop being an apology you have to make.
Yes — that is precisely the configuration work: per-staff services, prices, schedules and time off; per-location hours and resources; and a booking flow that lets clients pick person and place, or just the earliest slot. Complexity like this is why setup deserves a professional pass.