Event pros: avoiding double-booked event dates online

Two couples asking for the same Saturday by phone and email is how double bookings happen. Put your event dates on a booking page where each date can only be booked once: the first booking takes the date, the date leaves your page, and nobody else can book it. Your calendar becomes the single source of truth, synced to your phone.

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 each event slot one place. When it's booked, it leaves your page.

Times and prices are examples: set your own. Each slot sits within one day, so an evening that runs past midnight is described in the slot's description.

Slots of different services can overlap on Book. If you create a "Wedding" service and a "Birthday" service with slots on the same Saturday, both can be booked. To avoid that, keep event dates in one service, such as "Event date", and explain the event types and prices in its description. Or open dates only through a first call, and book the date yourself.

If you want to talk before committing, let clients book a short first call online. Once you agree, book the event date yourself from your bookings list: first and last name are enough, and if you enter the client's email, they get a confirmation with a calendar file. The date leaves your page as soon as you book it.

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 venue, the type of event, guest numbers and timings.

Your bookings sync with Google, iPhone or Mac calendars, so a date booked online appears on your phone, and you don't promise it to someone else by message.

Clients can't move or cancel online: they contact you, and you move the booking to another date from your list. Book doesn't email clients about changes, sends no reminders and doesn't take payments or deposits, so say in the description how you secure a date. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.