Make-up artists: booking on-location jobs online

An on-location job is more than the make-up itself: the drive, setting up your kit, the light, the timings of the event. Take those bookings online with one service per type of job, travel time built into each slot and the address and timings asked for in the booking note. Clients choose a date that's really free, you arrive with everything you need, and a 6 a.m. start is planned rather than squeezed in.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description shown on your public page, and each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity. Separate studio work from location work so each has its own length and price.

Durations and prices are examples: set your own, and say in each description whether travel is included or charged on top.

Make each location slot long enough for the drive, setting up and packing away. If you cover a wide area, create one service per zone, such as "Event make-up, city centre" and "Event make-up, outer villages", with a longer slot for the far zone. When a slot is booked, it leaves your page.

The booking form takes first name, last name, email and phone, plus an optional note that reaches you in the new booking email and appears in the client's calendar file. Ask in the description for:

Event days start early. Open early slots only on the days you're willing to work them, and don't open studio slots on the same morning. Slots of different services can overlap, so check a studio slot and a location slot can't both be booked at once.

For a group, create a service with one place and a slot long enough for everyone. The organiser books it and writes the number of people in the note. Each online booking takes one place, so a group booked as individuals would need separate slots.

A trial can be its own studio service. After it, book the event day yourself from your list; if you enter the client's email, they get a confirmation with a calendar file.

Clients can't move or cancel online: they contact you, and you move the booking from your list. Book doesn't take payments or deposits, so say in the description how you're paid. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.