Online appointment booking for service-providing businesses
4.8/5 (187 reviews)Two-Week Free Trial With All Our Features is Live! Book Like A Boss is a web-based platform for scheduling appointments and selling products and services online through a custom, all-in-one booking page. Users can connect with PayPal, Stripe or Square to collect payments, and sync with third party calendar apps such as Google Calendar, iCloud, Outlook, and more. Key features include automatic email and SMS reminders, coupons, custom domains, testimonials, FAQs, marketing material, social media links, a contact system, and cloud hosting.
Book Like A Boss enables businesses to create a custom, mobile optimized booking page to take unlimited appointments, paid bookings, and sell digital products using their own domain or get a free bookme.name URL. Users can choose their page name, set up availability, list their products and services via the dashboard, and connect with third party payment providers such as PayPal, Stripe or Square to receive payments. BLAB syncs with existing calendar apps like Google Calendar, Apple iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365 and Outlook, which work around the user’s schedule to avoid any double bookings or missed meetings. Users can also embed their calendars within other sites such as Wordpress, Squarespace, and more.
Businesses can send automatic reminders via email or SMS to avoid late- or no-shows. When a client books an appointment online, they'll get a series of notifications to remind them about the booking, including all the relevant details. Clients can also cancel or reschedule directly by replying to the email or SMS. Users can build out an unlimited number of packages and appointments, and even keep some of them hidden from the main page. BLAB's custom form builder enables businesses to ask their clients any necessary questions at the time of booking, and multiple customers can book the same time slot, such as for webinars, group training or all day events.
Pros
I run my two businesses on BLAB. I love how easy it is to use, and the team keeps on adding new features, and how they create tutorials and answer questions when you have any. They keep on improving the tool and it feels like I’m getting a lot of features that save me time on a daily basis. As an online business strategist and business mentor for entrepreneurs, I want to recommend to my clients and community tools from company that keep on delivering great products and keep on improving based on customers feedback. This is what the BLAB team does. As a result, it has made me recommend BLAB to my community and my clients, besides using it myself. Personally, I use it to:
- book potential clients for discovery sessions,
- book current clients for their own Zoom sessions (great Zoom integration!),
- sell webinars and online products.
These are just a few of the ways that I use BLAB and recommend my clients to use it to. I also love the customisable branded links (long + short links), that allow me to run two separate businesses on one BLAB account. It’s made my life a lot easier, and is my virtual assistant for the booking part of my business. I also love that:
- it integrates with my Google calendar (kind of mandatory nowadays for a scheduling system, yet not all provide that),
- I can choose which days I want to work and which not,
- I can choose which appointments I have available for which days,
- The reminders that are sent to people who booked,
- The Paypal integration
Cons
For the way I run my business, I haven’t found any yet. It could perhaps look better. I am using something else for sales pages. Some of my clients are mentioniong they’d love to have CRM included in the tool, but that’s not what BLAB is (yet).
It has been a joy to have online scheduling for my clients now!
It's easier on both sides of the experience. My clients appreciate being able to book their sessions when it works for them AND to get their payments taken care of up front. It's also been great for me in better managing my schedule.
Thank you to the Book Like A Boss team! You are so very appreciated!
Pros
I like the customization. There are so many ways to make this compatible with my branding.
I also like the scheduling options - being able to set up time cushions between sessions, sync with my Google calendar, etc.
I especially LOVE that bookings can be pending approval! And that I can override and schedule clients earlier if I need to.
And the best thing is about this service is that their team actually LISTENS to their customers. They are very communicative and responsive, which is a big deal these days. Great customer service!
Cons
It can be a bit challenging to set up the services. I wish there were categories for the services, and I wish we could set up events & class series (multiple events in one series) more easily. It takes a bit to set up, but it is worth it once it's done.
Split payment would also be a nice addition - to be able to have clients pay with deposits for large ticket services or to have installment payments.
It would also be good to have more customization of the reminder emails sent to clients. I'd love to be able to put additional information into those emails.
But again, what's great about this company is that they LISTEN to their customers, and they're making some of these requested changes (the ones in high demand, anyway). The team is very communicative and responsive.
The ability to have one stop shopping allows me to send contracts and payment links to clients and then I can embed the scheduling link to automatically appear once they pay and receive the thank you for payment message. It created a seamless workflow and saved me a lot of time with the back and forth of scheduling and paying. I also love the ability to have the automatic and manual bookings so that I can decide whether to accept the appointment and respond with a message as to why I might want to reschedule. My clients love the way the system works and have also indicated they have looked into becoming customers of Book Like a Boss.
Pros
Easy to use, easy to set up, easy to customize, decent price, great service, always improving. I can easily preview my changes, copy links and paste back and forth into texts and emails on the go from my ipad or cell phone. I can make all changes to my account easily through mobile devices. I travel quite a bit so having to wait to return to my desktop computer is not always efficient in running a business. I love the flexibility of being able to use this system from any device. The integration of multiple payment systems was a wonderful improvement and it allowed me to put all of my scheduling and booking needs in one place. The customization feature also allowed me to have a consistent branding approach.
Cons
I would love to be able to connect more than one type of credit card merchant. I use both square and stripe and am limited to using one in this system. Not a big deal but not ideal.
I've tried using multiple other calendars (acuity, you can book me, calendly, etc), and love book like a boss over the rest of the other ones. Some of the main points I was looking for were: Facebook pixel integration, ease of use, pretty interface with sections to load content into (videos, images, etc), and robust reminders built in. To my knowledge, this is the only platform that will allow you to embed a Facebook pixel directly within the calendar itself (versus embedding the calendar options via iframe into a landing page that had a pixel on it), so I was sold purely for the ease of retargeting on Facebook right out of the box.
I've been using this calendar tool for over a year now, and I won't go back to anything else - they constantly keep adding new features and upgrades to improve the experience over time.
Pros
- Facebook pixel integration
- texting and email reminders are incredibly robust
- multiple time options and customization for thank you pages
- simple and easy to use interface
- calendar iframe embedding works great
Cons
- Multiple calendar options on the main page can offer too many calendar options to everyone, when you might want to constrain it to certain scenarios
- creating a thank you page redirect requires you to use a different platform versus a built-in native thank you page builder
- simple and easy to use interface doesn't allow for more customization, which can be a blessing and a curse
It is so easy to create new appointments and set up all kinds of scheduling parameters with Book Like A Boss. I use it on a daily basis and it gets me out of the back and forth of multiple emails or texts trying to coordinate calendars.
Pros
There is so much to like about Book Like A Boss -- the ease of setting up new appointments and the multiple integrations supported -- calendar syncing, Stripe (for paid services), and probably my personal favorite >> Zoom. In today's world, every conversation I have is face-to-face via Zoom video conferencing. With Book Like A Boss, as soon as someone books an appointment, a Zoom call is booked and call credentials are included with the appointment.
Cons
It's really hard to think of what I like least -- the one thing I'd recommend is thinking about how YOU want to use the tool. The standard options may be nice for some, but I realized the need to simplify and delete many of the "standard options" -- when someone goes to my appointment page...keep it simple and do NOT distract them with other links and options. Just help them book an appointment.
Basic: for those who want unlimited appointment bookings
$9/month (billed monthly) or $7.50/month (billed annually)
Small: for entrepreneurs that have services they want to sell
$19/month (billed monthly) or $15.83/month (billed annually)
Big: for those who need total control and advanced marketing options
$29/month (billed monthly) or $24.16/month (billed annually)
Get 2 months free with a yearly subscription.
Below are some frequently asked questions for Book Like A Boss.
Book Like A Boss offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$9,00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Not Available
Basic: for those who want unlimited appointment bookings
$9/month (billed monthly) or $7.50/month (billed annually)
Small: for entrepreneurs that have services they want to sell
$19/month (billed monthly) or $15.83/month (billed annually)
Big: for those who need total control and advanced marketing options
$29/month (billed monthly) or $24.16/month (billed annually)
Get 2 months free with a yearly subscription.
Book Like A Boss offers the following features:
Book Like A Boss has the following typical customers:
Mid Size Business, Small Business
Book Like A Boss supports the following languages:
English
Book Like A Boss has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices Book Like A Boss supports
Book Like A Boss integrates with the following applications:
Facebook, Google Analytics, Google Calendar, Mailchimp, Microsoft Outlook, PayPal, Stripe, Zapier, Zoom, iCloud
Book Like A Boss offers the following support options:
Online Support, Phone Support
As a mentor and strategist female entrepreneurs, I love the many features included in BLAB. It saves me time in my business through thoughtful automations and integrations.