Only get booked where you actually drive
If your business goes to the client, the booking page has two jobs most scheduling tools never do: keep you inside the area you cover, and tell you where to point the van. Set your postcodes, collect the address at booking, and open it in Google Maps from the appointment.
All of this is on the Starter plan.
How a day on the road works
You set the postcodes you drive to
Type the four-digit postcodes you're willing to travel to. Anyone outside them is asked to get in touch rather than being quietly turned away, so you keep the enquiry and lose the wasted trip.
The client gives the address while they book
It's a required part of the booking, not something you chase afterwards. It lands on the job with a link for directions, so whoever is driving has it before they leave.
The address opens in Google Maps
From the appointment, one link opens the address in Google Maps. No copying addresses out of an email at six in the morning.
One tap tells the client you're coming
An SMS naming their address plus a live link that steps through booked, on the way and done. It's the thing mobile operators tell us cuts the wasted trip more than anything else.
Or one place everyone comes to
Plenty of mobile businesses also run something at a fixed spot: a group class in a park, a puppy school at a hall, a workshop at the depot. Give that service its own address and it's used for every booking of it, ahead of anything a client types. Six people are sent to one place instead of six houses.
What it doesn't do
We don't re-order your day or work out the shortest route, and the gap you want between jobs is one you set. We also don't calculate drive time between bookings or price a job by distance. If someone tells you their software does all that, they're selling a dispatch system, and that's a different product from a booking page.
Questions mobile operators ask
- Can I stop people outside my area from booking me?
- Yes. You list the postcodes you'll travel to. A client whose address falls outside them can't complete a booking; instead they see a short note asking them to get in touch, so the enquiry still reaches you and you decide whether the trip is worth it. It means a 90-minute drive never appears on your calendar without your say.
- Does BookAndGo work out the best order to do my jobs in?
- No, and it's worth being clear about that. We don't re-sequence your day or calculate drive time between jobs. If you want a gap between bookings to allow for travel, you set that gap yourself.
- How do I get the client's address?
- The booking form asks for it when your business is set to travel to clients. The address is saved on the appointment, so it shows on your dashboard with a link for directions, it's named in the 'on my way' text, and it appears on the client's tracking page. Nobody has to ring you to ask where they're driving.
- What if everyone comes to one place instead?
- A service can carry its own fixed address - a hall, a park, a studio. That address is used for every booking of that service and takes precedence over anything a client types, so a group session sends six people to one place rather than six houses.
- Which plan do I need?
- Service areas, the client's address and the 'on my way' text are all on Starter (200 SMS credits included each month, about 100 messages). You only need Professional if two people in your business work at the same time, because that needs a second calendar. Both are priced in NZ dollars on the pricing page.
- Does the client need an app?
- No. They book on a web page with no login and nothing to install.
Tell us your services and hours
Send us what you offer, your prices and roughly the hours you work, and we'll set it up and send you the link to check. You don't have to build it yourself.