Features · Seven things, each on its own screen
For the owner who reads every calendar twice.
Slotly checks Google, Outlook and iCloud before offering a slot, then handles the deposit, the reminder and the reschedule. Here is each part, on the screen where it happens.
Command palette first. It is the fastest way through the app, and the screen on the right.
Three calendars, one answer to “is she free?”
Slotly reads Google, Outlook and iCloud on every booking attempt, not only on a timer. A dentist appointment in Priya’s personal iCloud removes Monday 14:00 from the public page within a couple of minutes, and every new booking is written back to all three.
Tick which calendars count as busy and which are ignored. Birthdays can stay out of it.
A booking page that looks like the shop, not like us.
Your logo, your two brand colours, your wording on the confirmation. Run it at book.thistleandoak.pet or embed it in the site you already have. Each service gets its own link: “Nails & trim” can go in an Instagram bio while “Puppy intro” stays on the website.
Time zones are detected, and the visitor can change them from a menu.
The $8 is on the table before the appointment exists.
Take a flat deposit or a percentage through Stripe at the moment of booking. A card that declines never creates the slot, so nobody is holding 14:15 with nothing behind it. Refunds are one row and one keystroke.
Stripe’s own card fees still apply to what you collect. Slotly adds nothing on top.
Reminders go out at 48 and 24 hours. Reschedules come back by themselves.
Every message carries a reschedule link. When Ruth E. moves Nigel from Monday to Tuesday at 10:00, Monday’s slot reopens on your page in the same minute and the new time is written to every connected calendar.
A reply of “Y” confirms. A reply of anything else lands in your inbox, flagged.
Round-robin to whoever has the fewest this week.
Route a booking to the groomer with the lightest load, to one named person, or to anyone free. Group sessions fill to the seat limit you set, then close themselves. Reassigning ten bookings after someone calls in sick is a selection and a click.
Buffers, notice periods and a 15-minute wipe-down.
Set a gap after each service, a minimum notice (nobody books 14:15 at 14:00), a daily cap, and the earliest and latest time clients can reach into the future. Set Thursday to “Full after 4 bookings” and it closes itself.
Which Tuesday is empty, and why.
See bookings per day, no-show rate, deposits collected and the slots that never sold. Compare weeks, split by groomer and export the rows to a spreadsheet.
Read-only where it can be, revocable where it can’t.
Slotly asks each calendar for the minimum: busy and free times, plus write access only to the one calendar new bookings land in. Card details never touch Slotly; they go straight to Stripe. Disconnect any account from your own Google, Outlook or Apple settings and the connection stops that minute.
Booking pages are served over HTTPS, and the status page shows incidents as they happen.
Everything it connects to, and what each one is for.
| Tool | What Slotly does with it | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Google Calendar | Reads busy time on chosen calendars, writes new bookings to one. | Two-way |
| Outlook | Same, for the front desk’s work calendar. | Two-way |
| iCloud | Imports personal events so lunch and the dentist block slots. | Two-way |
| Stripe | Charges the deposit at booking, refunds from the row. | Out and back |
| Salesforce | A new booking becomes a contact and a task. | Out |
| Segment | Sends booked, rescheduled and cancelled events downstream. | Out |
The small things that stop the 7 a.m. email.
For the client
- One-tap reschedule link in every message
- Calendar file (.ics) attached to the confirmation
- Time zone detected, changeable from a menu
For the owner
- ⌘K palette: find a booking in two keystrokes
- Bulk reassign, remind or refund
- Wednesday summary of confirmed and reopened slots
For the team
- Each person’s own hours and calendars
- Group sessions that close at the seat limit
- Priority support and SSO on Venue
Seven features, one payment, and a Thursday that stays full.
Solo is $159, Studio $309, Venue $500. Pay once and keep the page for as long as you keep the calendar.