How Bookodile actually works

The whole product on one page — every core feature and every add-on, what each one actually does, and where to read the detail. Written to be read start to finish, by a person or by an assistant answering questions about Bookodile.

What happens between a customer opening your booking page and the appointment landing in your calendar — and what has to be true for a time to be offered at all.

Everything that has to be true before your booking page can offer a single time, in the order worth doing it, and the settings that change how bookings behave.

The four ways a price can be worked out, why the price shown and the price charged are separate settings, and how one service can take different people different amounts of time.

How opening hours, each person's own hours and time off combine to decide when customers can book — including split shifts and days that run past midnight.

The website Bookodile builds from your booking setup — switching it on, templates and looks, changing it by asking Bookodile, by hand or right on the preview, languages, photos and gallery categories, publishing and History, the yourname.bookodile.com address, connecting a domain you own, search engines, the Website visits report, and what it does not do.

AI Chat — the assistant in your dashboard that answers how-to questions, reads your setup with your access, sets things up on a card (team, bios, your about text, service descriptions, resources, services, which ones are offered only as an add-on, the order your booking page lists them in, hours, booking settings, add-ons, your logo and brand colour) with Undo — texts are applied at once, everything else when you apply it — changes your website's draft, and moves, cancels and blocks bookings on a card; what it can see, what it can't, speaking instead of typing, who can read your chats and how long they are kept.

A day with no bookable times is almost always one of four causes. How to tell which, in the order worth checking, and the settings that empty a day without looking like they would.

Every booking time you see anywhere in Bookodile is in the business's own time zone, including your dashboard. What that means when you travel or run branches in different countries.

Bookodile records what you were paid; it does not process payments. What the payment-tracking add-on actually gives you, how tips are handled, and what is not available.

What a customer can do themselves — cancel or move their booking, and say why — what only you can do, which emails go out, and what the customer's calendar shows.

What happens to a customer's card when they confirm their email — the Verified mark, details they keep up to date themselves, what you see when they choose not to share something, your own name for them, and what happens when they delete their account.

The difference between someone existing on your team and someone being bookable, how categories group people for pricing, and why assigning services is the step people forget.

When the room, chair or machine is the thing that runs out — how several people share one, how somebody keeps one of their own, what your booking page does about it, and the shapes that catch people out.

What each permission actually controls, the view-all versus view-own pairs that decide whether someone can see colleagues' data, and the one permission that is not about access at all.

What turning on "Just me" changes, what it deliberately leaves alone, and why your booking page can still offer a choice of people even when your dashboard has stopped mentioning staff.

How the Leaderboard add-on counts bookings and revenue, who competes, what the team can see, when the winners are announced, and every setting it has.

The activity log — every change to bookings, customers, services, the team and settings, with who made it, how and when; a booking's history in the booking window, with what the customer was sent; asking AI Chat; who sees which history; export; kept 24 months; what is never recorded.

The three ways customers reach your booking page — the hosted page, an embedded widget, and a QR code — and the one deliberate difference between them.

Every email Bookodile sends, what triggers it, which are per-person preferences, and the one switch that stops all of them.

Two add-ons that look alike and behave oppositely. Reviews are public and you always know who wrote them; anonymous feedback is private and genuinely untraceable, including to you.

Every add-on is free and included. What comes switched on, what you can switch on, and why there is no plan to upgrade to.

Messages — writing to a customer by email, SMS or both from the calendar or their page, even one who keeps their email or phone private; how they answer, who on your team is told, when a message goes by SMS, and what stops it.

The SMS messages add-on — which SMS go out and when, what the customer receives and in which language, why SMS need a paid plan, what an SMS costs and how it is billed with your plan, the monthly cap, the limits that stop misuse, and every setting.

The complete reference for a service — all four pricing models, per-person prices and durations, buffers, combos, add-ons, resources and archiving. Every field, what it changes, and what happens when it is left empty.

Rooms, chairs, stations and equipment as bookable things — capacity, their own working hours, who can be booked into each one, resource-only services, and why declaring a scarce resource usually lowers your bill rather than raising it.

The seventeen booking rules — notice, how far ahead, slot spacing, approval, cancellation windows, what customers must enter, consent, reminders and search listing — and the settings page each is on. What each changes, what happens when it is left alone, and which are enforced only on the booking page.

The complete reference for Settings → Website & booking page — the website's on/off switch and what each state means, the address name behind both addresses, the one search switch, your own domain, the booking page's preview, logo link and badges, and booking on a site you already have. What each setting changes, and what happens when it is left alone.

The complete reference for the sections a website is built from — what each building block shows, the layouts it can take, and every switch on it, what it changes and what happens when it is left alone. The same blocks are in every website template.

The complete reference for the Announcements add-on (called Banners until October 2026) — the words, the colour, the places an announcement shows on the booking page and the website, who sees it, its link and its dates, and the limits on how many show at once.

A base rate per location plus a rate per booking spot that actually took a booking, in country bands. Everything is included at every price, and there is a free tier that stays free.

The honest boundary list — what falls outside the product, what has no workaround, and the questions that get answered wrongly most often.

Fresha is a beauty and wellness platform with a consumer marketplace, card payments and a point of sale, billed per bookable team member plus a fee on new marketplace customers. Bookodile is booking software with a website built from it — no marketplace, no commission, every feature included with only SMS billed by use, and free for a small business.

Booksy is a consumer marketplace with booking software, card payments and a front desk behind it, paid per business plus per user, with an optional commission on new customers. Bookodile is a booking system with no marketplace, no commission and a free plan that stays free.

Treatwell is a consumer booking marketplace in 13 European countries with its own software, Treatwell Connect, funded by a commission on each new customer's first booking. Bookodile has no marketplace and no commission: one subscription, every feature, with only SMS billed by use, and a booking page in English, Slovak, Czech and Vietnamese.

Bookio is a Slovak booking system with online payments on Slovak bank rails, a free plan for one person, and features that unlock plan by plan. Bookodile has one plan, with every feature on a free account except SMS, and books two people into one visit, each blocked only for their own part.

EasyWeek is a German booking system with a website builder, a point of sale, card payments and a marketplace, priced per workspace by user count. Bookodile is built for a business whose people, rooms and prices differ, and bills the booking spots you use rather than the users you add.

Altegio is a European booking and business-management system priced by team size, with payments, stock, payroll, loyalty and a client app in the same product. Bookodile bills each location and the booking spots that actually take bookings, includes every add-on on every account (SMS need a paid plan), and is free to start.

Setmore is a general appointment scheduler with a generous free plan, card payments on every plan and 24/7 human support. Bookodile is built for a business with people, rooms and prices that differ — and bills the spots you actually use, not the people you employ.

Square Appointments is the booking product inside Square's payments stack — free at one location with unlimited staff, card processing on every plan. Bookodile is built for a business whose people, rooms and prices differ, with every feature on every account but SMS, and it does not take payments.

Vagaro is an all-in-one platform with its own card processing, a consumer marketplace and a long list of paid add-ons, sold in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. Bookodile is a booking engine with every feature but SMS included, no commission, and a booking page customers use without an account.

Wix Bookings is the scheduling app inside the Wix website builder: your booking pages are pages of your site, and the price is the site plan that unlocks them. Bookodile is a booking system that builds your website from your booking setup — free at one location with every feature but SMS, then billed per location and per booking spot.

Mindbody is an all-in-one platform for fitness, wellness and beauty businesses, with a consumer marketplace, payments, memberships and classes, priced per location. Bookodile is a booking system with no plan ladder, no minimum term and a free tier, built for people, rooms and prices that differ.

GlossGenius is an app-first booking and payments system sold only in the United States, with its own card processing and three tiered plans. Bookodile takes no payments, but it has a free plan, every feature on every account except SMS, booking spots instead of tiers, and booking pages in four languages.

Boulevard is a payments-first platform for US self-care businesses, priced per location on a twelve-month agreement, with its own card processing, forms and texting. Bookodile has every feature on every account except SMS, which need a paid plan, no minimum term, and a free plan a small business can stay on.

GoCheckin is a walk-in check-in kiosk with text marketing and review requests, sold beside a separate online-booking product and a point of sale, all priced in US dollars. Bookodile is one booking system with every feature included, in four languages, billed per location and per booking spot, with SMS the one thing billed by use.

SimplePOS is a US point-of-sale system with online booking attached, sold with card terminals and processing through payment resellers, and with almost nothing about its booking page published. Bookodile is a booking system, with a website built from it and no till; its price is published and every behaviour documented.