Bookings
Bookings is where the work comes from. You describe what you offer and put a page online. Clients then send you a proper inquiry or book you outright.
The pieces
In the sidebar, Bookings holds five things:
Inquiries are the requests waiting on a reply. Nothing goes in your calendar until you decide it should. The badge counts the ones you haven't opened.
Calendar shows what's actually booked, month by month.
All bookings is the full list, with a filter for what's active and what's finished.
Services are the things a client can book. A service holds your price, how long it takes, where it happens, what you ask the client, and any paperwork or payment attached to it. Most of your setup time goes here.
Settings has four tabs: Availability, Booking Page, Emails and Integrations. Between them they hold your working hours, the public page itself, the emails clients get, and your Google Calendar and Zoom connections.
Three ways a service can work
Every service runs in one of three modes, chosen when you create it. The mode decides how much of the process happens without you.
| Mode | What the client does | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| Inquiry | Sends you their details and what they want | Reply, quote, then create the booking when you're both ready |
| Direct booking | Picks a time, books it, and pays if you ask them to | Turn up |
| Mini sessions | Picks one of your fixed slots on a set day | Turn up |
You can run all three at once. A wedding photographer might take weddings as inquiries, engagement shoots as direct bookings, and autumn portraits as mini sessions.
Start with Services, then pick the mode that fits: Inquiry, Direct booking, or Mini sessions.
Your booking page
Your booking page is the public page listing your published services. It lives at yourname.corehue.co/services. It stays off until you turn it on. See Your booking page.
What a booking can carry
A direct booking or mini session can require any of these before it counts as confirmed:
- Payment, in full or as a deposit
- A signed contract
- A completed questionnaire
Anything outstanding leaves the booking pending. See Why a booking is pending.
Inquiry services require none of it, because nothing is booked yet. Money, contracts and questionnaires come later. They go in the proposal you build once you've agreed on something.
Getting started
- Create a service and set your price and duration. See Services.
- Set your working hours. See Availability.
- Publish the service, turn on your booking page, and share the link. See Your booking page.
Your booking page is off by default. A page with no published services tells visitors you aren't taking bookings. Check both before you send the link to anyone.