It books the time. Then it hands everything else back to you.
Link-based schedulers solved one problem beautifully: stopping the back-and-forth about when. If you sell your time, though, that is the easy half. The money, the paperwork and the people who don't turn up are still yours to chase.
You'll recognise this if…
- You send a link, they pick a slot, and you invoice separately — or get paid in person
- You have no record of what a client booked six months ago without scrolling your calendar
- A no-show costs you the slot and there is nothing in the tool that discourages one
- Your intake questions live in a separate form, and you copy answers across by hand
- Payment happens somewhere else, so nothing links a booking to what was actually paid
- No deposits, so a no-show is a free option for the client
- No client record — just calendar events with names in them
- Reminders that say when, but never what to bring or where to be
- Reschedules become a thread of messages instead of one link
- Take the full price or a deposit at the moment of booking
- Every client has a record: their bookings, notes, payments and intake answers
- Deposits and a cancellation cutoff you set, enforced automatically
- Reminders and confirmations in your own branding, sent on your schedule
- Clients reschedule or cancel themselves, inside the rules you set
What moving actually involves
Import your services and your client list from a spreadsheet, check how they landed, then share your new booking link. Nothing changes for your clients until you send them the new link — so you can set everything up and look at it first. Your old tool keeps working while you do.
Zeitlup is month-to-month, so the decision is reversible. If it isn't right, export everything and go.
When not to bother
If you only ever need to find a mutually free hour and money never changes hands, a link scheduler is the lighter tool and there is no reason to move.
Using something else?
Set it up before you switch anything over
Start free, import your services and clients, and look at the result. Your current tool keeps working while you do.