Your booking page. Your domain. No monthly fee.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Calendly, at $10/user/mo — roughly $120 a year, every year. Bookslot does the job for a one-time $99 — running on infrastructure you control.
Name, duration, description, color, buffers, minimum notice, max days ahead — each with its own public link.
For freelancers, event types pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
Per-day time ranges in your timezone, plus one-off blocked dates and times.
For freelancers, weekly availability editor pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
Stored in UTC, computed in your timezone (DST-safe, unit-tested), displayed in the visitor's.
For freelancers, timezone-correct slot math pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
One-time $99 for the packaged installer + priority support.
Event types, weekly hours, buffers and blocked dates from the admin panel.
Visitors book in their own timezone and get an email with a calendar invite. You get notified.
Bookslot is $99, once. Calendly at $10/user/mo — roughly $120 a year, every year. Pays for itself in under 10 months vs Calendly — then your booking link is free for life.
Pays for itself in under 10 months vs Calendly — then your booking link is free for life. Bookslot costs $99 once; Calendly charges $10/user/mo — about $120 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/booking-page-mvp. $99 buys the packaged installer, 1-click setup, updates and priority support.
Not two-way — that's Calendly's strongest feature and we'll say so. Bookslot sends .ics invites your calendar ingests, and you block busy times manually. If you live across 3 synced calendars, Calendly earns its fee.