How to book an appointment

Q: What you get after booking

A confirmation on screen with a reference code like K3F9P2QH — eight characters, drawn from an alphabet with no I, O, 0 or 1 in it, so it cannot be misread over the phone. An email or SMS confirmation, depending on which contact you gave. A link back to your booking that you can reopen any time to reschedule or cancel. Keep that link. It is the only way to reach your booking without phoning the shop, and reopening it asks for the email or phone number you booked with, so nobody else can change your appointment. Most shops also send a reminder before the appointment. When it arrives is the shop's choice.

Pick a service, pick a time, leave your name and contact details. That is the whole flow.

Booking on Booked takes under a minute. You do not create an account.

The four steps

Open the shop's booking page at booked.co/<shop-name>.
Pick a service. Duration and price are shown next to each one.
Pick a staff member and time. Only slots the shop can actually honor are shown.
Enter your name plus an email or phone number and confirm.

If the shop requires a deposit for the service you chose, you will be asked to pay it before the slot is held. Otherwise, no card is needed.

Why the times on offer look the way they do

The list is not a blank grid with the booked slots removed. Before a time is offered, Booked checks the staff member's own working hours, any time off, the shop's opening hours, the length of the service you picked, and the gap the shop keeps between appointments. A slot that survives all of that is one the shop can actually honor, which is why the list is often shorter than the opening hours suggest.

Shops also set how far ahead the calendar opens and how close to the start time they will still take a booking. If today is missing entirely, the shop has asked for more notice than that.

What you get after booking

A confirmation on screen with a reference code like K3F9P2QH — eight characters, drawn from an alphabet with no I, O, 0 or 1 in it, so it cannot be misread over the phone.
An email or SMS confirmation, depending on which contact you gave.
A link back to your booking that you can reopen any time to reschedule or cancel.

Keep that link. It is the only way to reach your booking without phoning the shop, and reopening it asks for the email or phone number you booked with, so nobody else can change your appointment.

Most shops also send a reminder before the appointment. When it arrives is the shop's choice.