Painters: painting occupied homes with online booking

Painting a home where people still live means working room by room, leaving bedrooms usable at night and planning around drying times. Clients want to know which room you'll be in each day. With Book, clients book a first visit on your own booking page, and you book each work day yourself from your list, with the room in the booking, so the plan sits in their calendar.

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.

Durations and prices are examples. Leave the price empty on work services; an empty price is hidden.

After the visit, plan the order of rooms with the client and book each day yourself from your bookings list. First and last name are enough; with their email, the client gets a confirmation with a calendar file for each day. Write the room in the booking's note, such as "day 2: living room", so it shows in their calendar file. A slot sits within one day, so a week of work is five bookings.

Say in the work service description what clients should move or empty before each room, how long a room stays out of use while paint dries, and that windows will be open. Clients who know this can plan where to sleep and work.

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 the address, the rooms, and photos by email. Slots repeat weekly on the weekdays you choose until an end date; open visits at the end of your work days.

Arrange keys by phone, not in the note, which appears in the client's calendar file.

Clients can't move or cancel online: they contact you, and you move the day from your list. Book doesn't email clients about changes, so call them if a day moves. Your bookings sync with Google, iPhone or Mac calendars.

Book doesn't write estimates, issue invoices, take payments or send reminders. One booking page per business, no staff field: with a team, create services per painter. See the guide on visits and colour choices. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.