Getting started with Booker

What Booker does

Booker turns a Shopify product into something people book by time. A customer opens the product page, sees when you are actually free, picks a slot, and pays at your normal checkout. That time is held while they pay and blocked once they have, so it is never sold twice.

The setup guide walks you through it

When you install Booker it opens a setup guide and works through one step at a time. You can leave it and come back; it remembers where you got to.

1. 1
   Choose a plan

   Start on Free to try it with one product, or pick Starter or Pro for more. You can change plan later.

2. 2
   Set your opening hours

   Say when you are open each day, for example Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00. Customers can only book inside those hours.

3. 3
   Create your first bookable product

   Pick what you are selling from a list of real examples, like a meeting room, a photography studio or a fitness class. Booker asks a few plain questions and creates the product for you. You can also convert a product you already sell.

4. 4
   Add the calendar to your product page

   Place the Booking Calendar block on your product template so customers see availability where they buy.

5. 5
   Turn on the cart guard

   One switch in your theme editor. It keeps a held time valid while the customer checks out.

6. 6
   Turn on double-booking protection

   Blocks checkout if someone else takes the time first. One switch, and it covers your whole store.

7. 7
   Take a test booking

   Book a slot yourself and watch it appear on your calendar and disappear from the product page.

Setting up a product

Most people never need the long form. Pick the closest example to what you sell and Booker asks only the questions that apply: what it is called, how customers book it, and what it costs. If none of the examples fit, choose Something else and you get the same questions one screen at a time, with every option available.

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