Online booking
Set up services, staff, and availability so customers can book you online — with optional deposits to cut no-shows.
Online booking lets customers schedule with you directly from your business page. You set up three things — services, staff, and availability — and Aaptly handles the booking page, intake, reminders, and (optionally) deposits. Everything lives under Bookings, organized into tabs.
Set up your booking page
Add your services. On the Services tab, add each service with a name, duration, and price. You can also set prep and aftercare instructions, a category, a consent form, and a rebook interval (to nudge repeat visits). Tip: Aaptly suggests common services for your business type.
Add your staff. On the Staff tab, add each team member with their role and bio, assign the services they perform, and optionally connect their Google Calendar so booked times sync both ways.
Set availability. On the Schedule tab, set each person's working hours by day, and add time off (vacation, sick, partial days). Open hours minus existing bookings and time off become the slots customers can pick.
Share your booking page. Customers pick a service, a time, and (if you have multiple) a team member, fill in any intake or consent forms, and book.
Reduce no-shows with deposits
Each service can require a deposit collected at booking. Deposits need Stripe connected — see Payments & deposits. Once it's on, the deposit amount shows on the service and is collected through secure Stripe checkout before the booking confirms.
Intake, consent, and reminders
- Intake & consent forms can be attached per service, so first-timers complete them before they arrive.
- Reminders go out automatically before appointments to cut no-shows.
- Approval mode (optional) makes bookings come in as requests you approve, rather than auto-confirming.
The labels adapt to your business type — a tattoo studio manages "sessions" and "artists," a salon "appointments" and "stylists," a med spa "treatments" and "providers."