Online booking for smart city consultants

Smart city consultants advise local authorities, public agencies and companies on mobility, energy, data, lighting or citizen services. The work is mostly project-based and contracted, but it runs on meetings: discovery calls with new contacts, workshops with several departments, review meetings, talks at conferences. Many of these involve busy public-sector calendars, where finding a common slot by email is slow.

Book won't replace your project tools, but it can handle the scheduling part: a page with your formats and your real availability, where contacts pick a slot themselves.

On Book, each meeting format is a service with its own description, and you open slots for each at the length it takes. A free discovery call for new contacts; paid expert office hours for organisations that want a quick opinion; half-day slots for workshops that you confirm with the organiser. Where the price depends on the project, say "on request" in the description instead of showing an amount. When a workshop date is agreed by email instead, book the slot yourself from your calendar so it's no longer offered online to anyone else.

Contacts book without an account and receive a confirmation email; you receive an email for each new booking. Reschedule or cancel from your bookings list. Book doesn't manage contracts, projects or invoices. It costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited bookings and services, no commission, no contract.

Your page shows times in your business's time zone, with its name displayed, so there's no confusion for clients booking from elsewhere. To fill a regular week quickly, create a slot once and repeat it on the weekdays you choose until an end date.