This is one part of your Timely setup guide. After you've done the basics, you're ready to go live. Work through these steps at your own pace:
- The basics
- Get booked and get found (you are here)
- Up next: Getting paid
- Client experience
- Make more money
- Reduce admin
Once you’ve completed this section, you’ll be set up to help clients find you and book online 24/7.
⏱️ Approximately 10 minutes
Online booking
Let clients book online as soon as they find you – even when you’re fast asleep. No more back and forth on finding an appointment time that works for both you and your client.
No back-and-forth finding a time or collecting the details you need.
⏱️ About 1 minute
Pencilled-in bookings give you control over new online bookings by letting you review them before they're confirmed. This is turned on by default.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
Timely tip: The highest-performing Timely businesses take 40% or more of their bookings online.
⏱️ About 1 minute
Keep the conversations within your Timely account. Let clients reply to your SMS reminders and confirm their appointment with a simple "Y".
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
⏱️ Less than 1 minute
Don't lose a client just because you're fully booked. Let clients join your waitlist when their preferred time isn't available, then use it to fill gaps and last-minute cancellations.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
Get found online
Show up where clients are looking for their next treatment. Timely gives you simple ways to get your business discovered — and turn that discovery into a booking.
Set up your free branded website
⏱️ About 7 minutes
Create a professional online presence in minutes with your free branded website. It's hosted on a free Timely domain, so there's no developer, hosting or separate website costs to worry about. So clients can find you, book online and buy gift vouchers.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
Timely tip:
Set up your Google Business Profile to succeed
Google is the world's largest marketplace. And it's free! Set up your Google Business Profile so clients can find your business when they're searching online.
Read how to set up and optimise your Google Business Profile.
Add a ‘Book now’ button to Google
⏱️ About 4 minutes
Get found on the world's biggest free marketplace. Reserve with Google adds a ‘Book now’ button to your Google Business Profile, so clients can go straight from search to booked.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
Add a ‘Book now’ button to Facebook and Instagram
⏱️ About 4 minutes
Catch your clients while they are doom scrolling. Add a ‘Book now’ button to your Facebook and Instagram profiles so they can go straight from discovering your business to booking.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
Share your booking link everywhere
⏱️ About 1 minute
Create custom booking links for specific services, team members or locations and share them wherever clients find you. Promoting a new service? Send clients straight to that service so it's ready to book.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
Already have a website?
It’s easy to add Timely so clients can go straight from browsing to booked.
⏱️ About 3 minutes
Embed Timely's booking widget so clients can find an appointment and book without leaving your website.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
⏱️ About 3 minutes
Add a clear ‘Book now’ button and send clients straight to the location, team member or service they want.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
Campaigns
Give clients another reason to book. Use promo codes and discounts to promote new services, create seasonal offers and help fill quieter periods.
⏱️ About 2 minutes per promo code
Launching a new service, welcoming a new team member or looking to fill a quieter period? Create a promo code in Timely and share it to encourage more bookings.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
⏱️ About 2 minutes per discount
Create a special offer to give new clients another reason to try your business. Set the discount up in Timely so it's ready to apply when they book or pay.
Need more help? Try our step-by-step guide.
Congratulations, you're ready to get found and get booked!
Up next: getting paid
Protect your revenue and get paid on time with Timely.
Your Timely setup:
- The basics
- Get booked and get found (you are here)
- Up next: Getting paid
- Client experience
- Make more money
- Reduce admin