Session hairstylists: book shoot days with photographers

Photographers and producers want to know one thing fast: are you free on the 14th? Answering every enquiry by message while you're on set means missed jobs or two clients on the same date. With Book, your free shoot days are visible on your own booking page; a photographer books a half or full day, the date leaves your page, and you get the brief in the note.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description, all shown on your public page. Each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity. Shoot work fits a few services:

Durations and prices are examples: set your own rates, or leave the price empty if each job is quoted separately.

Give each shoot slot one place. Once a photographer books it, it leaves your page, so nobody else can book that day. If you open both a half day and a full day on the same date, slots of different services can overlap, so close the other one once either is booked.

Set the slot start to your call time, not the first shot, and the end to wrap. A slot can last most of a day, as long as it sits within one day; for a night shoot past midnight, create the booking yourself from your list across the two days.

The booking form takes first name, last name, email and phone, plus an optional note that reaches you in the new booking email. Ask for:

Producers sometimes want to hold a date before the client confirms. Book has no hold status: either the producer books the day and cancels by contacting you if it falls through, or you create the booking yourself from your list and note it as a hold in your own calendar. Agree which you use, and say it in the description.

Tests with new photographers build your book. Keep them as a separate service on quieter weekdays, so paid shoot days stay open for commercial work.

Slots repeat weekly on the weekdays you choose until an end date. Open the days you're free, and when a job comes in by phone or through your agent, create the booking yourself from your list so the date leaves your page. Your bookings sync with Google, iPhone or Mac calendars.

Book doesn't take payments, issue invoices or usage terms, or send reminders. Clients can't move or cancel online: they contact you. One booking page per business, no staff field: if you work with an assistant, create a service in their name. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.