# Setting up your booking page

> 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.

_Last verified: 2026-09-05. Source: https://bookodile.com/docs/setting-up-your-booking-page_

Your booking page lives at `bookodile.com/book/your-shop` from the moment your
account exists. Whether it can actually offer a time depends on four things
being in place.

## The four things a bookable time needs

1. **A service** — something to book, with a duration and a price.
2. **Someone who can perform it** — at least one active, bookable person
   assigned to that service.
3. **Working hours** — for the business, and for that person.
4. **Room in the future** — the time must clear your minimum notice and fall
   inside your maximum advance window.

Miss any one and your page loads perfectly and offers nothing. That is the most
common "my booking page is broken" report, and it is almost never a fault.

## Settings that change how bookings behave

These live in Booking settings and are not cosmetic — each one changes what is
accepted.

| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Minimum notice** | Hours of warning you need. Set to 24 and today is gone. |
| **Maximum advance days** | How far ahead customers can book. Set to 30 and week six is unreachable. |
| **Slot interval** | The spacing of offered start times — 15 minutes offers 09:00, 09:15, 09:30. |
| **Auto-confirm** | On, bookings are confirmed instantly. Off, they arrive pending and nothing is agreed until you accept. |
| **Cancellation window** | Hours before the appointment during which customers can no longer cancel themselves. |
| **Require email / require phone** | Each is independent. Name is always required, and at least one of email or phone must stay on. |

## Contact details you collect

Name is always required. Email and phone are two independent switches, and you
cannot turn both off — the settings page refuses to save. You need some way to
reach the customer.

Both are enforced on your booking page *and* again by the booking API, so the
requirement holds regardless of how the booking arrives.

## Invoice and consent

**Invoice details** can be off, optional, or required. Set to required, your
booking page will not submit without company name, street, city, postal code and
country. Useful for rentals and anything B2B.

Worth knowing: that completeness check currently lives on the booking page
itself. A booking created directly through the API can still omit invoice
details even when the setting says required.

**Consent** can be switched on with your own wording and a link to your privacy
policy, so the booking page asks for it in your terms rather than ours.

## Reminders

Reminders can go out the day before, two hours before, or both. They are on a
per-business setting and go to the customer.

## A sensible order to do this in

1. Set your **business working hours** first — everything narrows from there.
2. Add your **services** with realistic durations and buffers.
3. Add **people**, set their own hours, and assign them to services.
4. Set **booking settings** — minimum notice is the one people get wrong.
5. Open your own booking page in a private window and book something. It is the
   only way to see what customers see.

## Worked example

A new barbershop: open 09:00–18:00 Tuesday to Saturday, one barber, a
30-minute cut at €20, 15-minute slot interval, 2 hours minimum notice,
auto-confirm on, email required and phone optional.

That is a complete, working booking page. Everything else — branding, add-ons,
deposits, reminders — is refinement on top of a page that already takes
bookings.

## Limits

- **Working hours, services and people are per branch.** A second location
  starts with copies and diverges from there.
- **Nothing is bookable without an assigned person**, even for a business of
  one — you are a bookable person on your own roster.
- **Changing settings never rewrites existing bookings.** Narrow your hours and
  yesterday's bookings stay where they are.