Booking page
A dedicated web page generated by a scheduling tool that lets the other person book directly from your free time.
A booking page is a dedicated web page generated by a scheduling tool that lets the other person book directly from your free time. Simply sharing the URL fixes the date without any back-and-forth emails.
The basic structure of a booking page
Booking pages vs traditional scheduling
A commonly cited advantage of booking pages is that they shift control of scheduling from “the one who invites” to “the one who books.” Back-and-forth emails become unnecessary, and double booking can also be avoided automatically, as long as it is an overlap with events already on a connected calendar.
Situations where booking pages work especially well
- A sales team accepts meeting bookings from prospects
- Customer success sets up regular meetings with customers
- A recruiting team schedules interviews with candidates
- A consultant manages sessions with clients
Pitfalls when adopting one
Where booking pages tend to stumble in practice is publishing too many open slots. If every blank on your calendar is bookable, even the time for focused work gets filled by other people. You can more easily avoid this kind of filling up by limiting in advance the hours in which you accept bookings (for example, afternoons only) and setting a daily booking limit and buffer time between bookings before publishing. Also, adding one advance question (such as “Please tell us the topic”) makes it easier to grasp the topic before the day.