Fashion designers: booking bespoke design consultations

A bespoke garment, whether a wedding dress, an evening gown or a tailored suit, starts with a consultation in your studio. Let clients book it online at any hour, choosing the type of garment and a slot in your studio visiting hours. They tell you the event date in the note, you plan the making time back from it, and fittings are booked one after another from your list.

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. Give consultations one place per slot.

Durations and prices are examples: set your own. Say in the description whether the consultation fee is deducted from the garment.

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 for the event date and the type of event in the note.

After the consultation, book the fittings yourself from your bookings list, spaced back from the event date. First and last name are enough; if you enter the client's email, they get a confirmation with a calendar file for each fitting. Rescheduling works across services.

Open consultation and fitting slots at set times, such as afternoons and Saturdays, so your mornings stay free for cutting and sewing. Slots repeat each week on the weekdays you choose until an end date.

Wedding garments take months, so consultations for summer weddings come in autumn and winter. Open more consultation slots then, and say in the description how many months ahead clients should book.

Clients can't move or cancel online: they contact you. Book doesn't email clients about changes, sends no reminders and doesn't take payments or deposits, so say in the description how you take them. Your bookings sync with Google, iPhone or Mac calendars. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.