Massage therapists: plan time between massages

Back-to-back hours look efficient on paper, but a massage doesn't end when your hands stop: the client dresses, pays and chats, you change the linen, wash your hands and reset the room. Without that time, every session starts late and the last client of the day gets the least rested version of you. With Book, you decide exactly where slots start, so the gap between massages is built into your page and nobody can book into it.

On Book, each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity. You create the slots, so a slot exists only where you put it. To leave 15 minutes between hour-long massages, open slots at 9:00, 10:15, 11:30 and so on. The gap isn't a slot, so it never appears on your page.

Durations, gaps and prices are examples: set your own. Slots repeat weekly on the weekdays you choose until an end date, so a spaced pattern takes a few minutes to set once.

Time a few changeovers on a normal day. The gap you need is the gap you actually use, plus a few minutes for clients who arrive late.

A short gap after each session isn't enough for a full day. Leave a longer break around midday by simply not opening a slot then. If you prefer a fixed number of massages per day, open only that many slots, and the page will never offer more.

If you offer 60 and 90-minute massages on the same day, slots of different services can overlap. Open both at the same start times and close the other once one is booked, or keep 90-minute sessions to set days so the pattern stays simple.

For home visits, the gap must also cover travel and setting up your table. Create a mobile service per area with wider gaps between slots, and ask in the note for the address, parking and stairs. The note reaches you in the new booking email.

Book has one booking page per business and no staff field. If you share a room with a colleague, create services per therapist and agree on who uses the room when, so your gaps don't collide with their sessions.

Say in each service description how late a client can arrive and still get the full session, and that the session ends on time to respect the next client. The gap absorbs a few minutes; it shouldn't become a second waiting room.

Book doesn't add buffers automatically: the gaps come from where you place slots. It doesn't take payments or send reminders, and clients can't move or cancel online: they contact you. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.