For those of you who run small businesses where people need to book things: private yoga, tarot, massage, coaching… you (and I) know how hard email back-and-forth is.

You might find that setting up an automated process for people to book their sessions helps ease both your lives *and* increase your bookings.

You’ll want to pick a system that integrates with your (and their) calendar and takes payments, in my opinion, since that makes it one-stop-booking for your clients, and takes the follow-up off your to-do list.

Check out these options:

• Appointlet –  https://www.appointlet.com/features/ – $15/mo, gmail, stripe
• This is what I use, and I really like it a lot! Easy to set up, affordable, and highly customizeable –> Acuity Scheduling – https://secure.acuityscheduling.com/signup.php also takes payments, $10mo
• ScheduleOnce – http://www.scheduleonce.com/pricing $5/mo no payments
• Calendly – https://calendly.com/ – works w gmail, mailchimp and other things you may use, doesn’t take payments, $10mo
• Satori – http://satoriapp.com/#billing – $29/mo, very focused on larger coaching contracts, this one can do integrated payments too
• PaySimple – https://paysimple.com/demo-launch.html, does booking, free if you don’t do payments w it [but why would you not do that?] or $50/mo
• 10to8 – https://10to8.com/features/, kinda for salons/yoga teachers, free if you are ok w their branding on the bookings page, can take $ and integrate w a mailing list
•  Full Slate $29mo, takes single appts & payments, integrates w google calendar
  

Each platform listed above all have different +/- points, so I can’t say exactly which one you’d pick BUT, after digging thru a LOT of internet cruft these all seem like solid choices.