Set up your calendar
A few questions and your booking page is live: what kind of business, who takes bookings, your hours and what people book. Pause any time.
Setup turns your Kard into a booking page in a few short steps. Open Take bookings on your Kard under "More tools" in the sidebar (it becomes Calendar once you run one); the first time, if you could set up bookings for yourself or for a team you run, it asks whose. Already running one? Start another from "Set up bookings" on a Kard's Booking tab, or "Bookings" on your team's page. A calendar of your own takes four steps, a team's five, because it also asks who takes bookings.
Each step saves as you go. If you stop part-way, Calendar opens your calendar with online booking still off; to finish, open Services (Meeting types for a consultant) and press "Start from the suggested list".
What kind of business
The first step, "What do people book with you?" ("What kind of business is Acme Studio?" for a team), offers nine kinds of business, from "Consulting & coaching" and "Salon, barber, nails & beauty" to "Something else". If your Kard was made for a trade, from that trade's page, its kind comes first and picked, and the step says why: "Picked for you: your Kard is set up for a salon or spa. Tap another if it fits better." Your choice sets the words your pages use ("Services" and "Clients" for a salon, "Meeting types" and "Invitees" for a consultant), the button on your Kards ("Book appointment", "Book a call" and so on), starting rules such as how much notice you need, and which tools show. Salons, spas and clinics open on a day view of the team, with a Clients tab (Patients in a clinic), and salons and clinics take walk-ins; every other kind opens on a list of what's coming up.
Under the choices, one line shows your time zone and the currency for prices. Press "Change" if either is wrong: bookings, reminders and your hours all run on that time zone. If your kind of business asks clients for a phone number and your country isn't known yet, setup asks for it, so numbers typed without a country code can be read.
Who takes bookings
A team's calendar asks "Who takes bookings?" next. Team members' Kards wait under "From your team Kards", each added in one tap with its name and title. "Add yourself" puts you on the team if clients book you too, and "Add someone without a Kard" needs only a name. Nobody has to sign up, and nobody needs a login to be booked; Your team takes it from there.
Your hours
Setup fills in typical hours for your kind of business, such as Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 19:00 for a salon. Switch days on or off and change the times; the plus button beside a day's times adds a second range, for a split shift or a lunch break. On a team's calendar these are your opening hours: everyone on the team starts with them, and from then on each person's own hours decide when they can be booked. On a calendar of your own, they're the hours people can book you.
What people book, and going live
The next step is a starter list for your kind of business, grouped by category, each line with its name, minutes and price. Every line starts off: "Tap each one you offer to keep it, then make its minutes and price yours." A tap keeps a line and opens its name, minutes and price, ready to type over; an empty price shows no price, and "+ Add your own" adds a line to any group. Have a printed price list? "Take a photo" or "Paste text" and the list fills in from it. You check every name, length and price before anything is added.
Under the list, "Confirm each appointment yourself" ("Confirm each meeting yourself" for a consultant, "Confirm each booking yourself" for home services) decides how online bookings arrive. It starts off: clients are booked straight away. On, they see "Send request" instead of "Confirm booking" and hear back once you approve or decline, and their time is held for 4 of your open hours while you decide. It applies to everything you keep; afterwards each service keeps its own switch, under "Before you confirm", as Requests and advances explains. Back in setup with services that differ, it says so and leaves each as it is.
"Save and go live" saves the list and switches online booking on: your Kards get their Book button straight away. The last step, "Your booking link is live", has your link and every way to share it, which Share your booking link walks through. Descriptions, prep and cleanup time and who does what come later, under Services.
Pausing and changing your mind
To stop online booking for a while, open Settings, switch off "Online booking" and press "Save settings". The Book button leaves your Kards, and your booking link shows "Online booking is paused" with ways to call or message you. Existing appointments stay, and you can still book people yourself. Straight after you pause, the page offers "Undo"; later, switch it back on and save.
"Change kind of business", under "Your business" in Settings, picks another kind at any time. The words and the tools change with it; your services, team, clients, appointments, hours and rules stay exactly as they are.
Running more than one calendar, such as your own and your team's? "Calendar" opens the one you last picked, and "Switch" at the end of its tabs brings back the choice. A salon, spa or clinic with staff: add them from the Team tab, and your Kard offers "Anyone free" beside each person (A business with staff).