A composite example
“I was managing bookings in my Notes app and double-booking myself every other weekend.”
The kind of mobile nail technician this plan is built for. Illustrative, not a real customer.
Sound familiar? Personal gives you a professional online booking page, automatic email confirmations and reminders, and a client portal - completely free. No credit card, no catch. Just a better way to manage your growing side hustle.
Mia is in her third year of a business degree at the University of Waikato's Tauranga campus, but on weekends she drives around the Bay of Plenty doing mobile nail sets. She's good - really good. Word spread through her cohort, then through her cohort's friends, and before long she had a full Saturday roster and a waiting list forming in her Instagram DMs.
The problem was the admin. Every booking lived in her Notes app. Clients would message her at midnight asking what time they were booked for, and she'd wake up to four messages and no memory of which one she'd confirmed. One Saturday morning she showed up to a client's house in Papamoa only to find another client already there. She'd double-booked. The ride home was long.
A friend suggested BookAndGo Personal. Mia set it up in about ten minutes between lectures. She added her services, her available Saturday hours, and dropped the link in her Instagram bio. Within a week, clients were booking themselves in without a single DM. The automatic email confirmation went out the moment they booked - no chasing, no "wait, are we still on?" messages. Her Notes app is now just for study.
She's still finishing her degree. She still does mobile nails every weekend. But now she looks like she's been running a proper business for years. Her regulars rebook themselves through the client portal, and her Sundays are actually free. When she's ready to grow - maybe take on a friend, add a second day - Starter will be waiting for her.
Start for free with the essentials.
A clean, professional booking page your clients can access from any device. Share the link in your bio, in a message, or on a business card - bookings come to you without the back-and-forth.
Every booking triggers an automatic confirmation email to your client with the date, time, and service details. No more "wait, are we still on?" messages at 10pm.
Your clients get email reminders before their appointments. Text message reminders come with our paid plans.
Returning clients can log in to view upcoming appointments, cancel or reschedule, and rebook their favourite service. Less admin for you, more convenience for them.
Perfect for side hustles and early-stage businesses. Thirty bookings a month is a solid weekly roster - and when you're ready to grow past that, upgrading to Starter takes seconds.
Built for solo operators. Set your own hours, your own services, and your own availability. Everything is configured around you, with no unnecessary complexity.
See your week at a glance in a clean calendar layout. Know exactly when you're booked, when you're free, and how your day is shaping up - all from your phone.
These are composite examples, not real customers.
Greg Patterson
Home Studio Remedial Massage · Kāpiti Coast
Greg took his remedial massage certificate at 58, the year after he retired from thirty years in civil engineering. He converted the spare room into a proper treatment studio - table, oils, a salt lamp his daughter picked out. Clients come mostly through word of mouth, six or seven a week. He didn't need a complicated system. He just needed his clients to stop calling his landline and booking the same Thursday slot twice. BookAndGo Personal solved that on day one, and he hasn't thought about it since.
Jess Okafor
Personal Trainer · Christchurch
Jess finished her New Zealand Certificate in Exercise last November and immediately started taking on clients at a local park in Merivale. She was upfront with every new client: she was new, she was building her book, and she was working hard to earn their trust. The one thing she refused to look new at was her booking process. From day one, clients got a proper confirmation email and a link to manage their sessions. Free, polished, and live in minutes - exactly the right foot to start on.
Yes. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial that needs no card. If you don't subscribe when it ends, your business moves to the free Personal plan, which you can keep for as long as you like. The Personal plan exists because we believe every small business deserves a professional online presence from day one, regardless of budget.
Your booking page will pause for new bookings until the next calendar month, or you can upgrade to Starter at NZ$29/month for unlimited bookings, unlimited clients, 200 SMS credits a month (about 100 messages), AI web chat, reminders, and more. Upgrading takes seconds and all your data carries over.
Absolutely. Your clients, booking history, services, and availability settings all carry over when you upgrade. There's no migration, no re-entry, and no disruption to your clients. You just unlock more features.
No. Clients simply enter their name, email address, and phone number when they book - no sign-up required. Returning clients can optionally create a portal account to manage their upcoming appointments.
Clients can view all their upcoming appointments, cancel or reschedule with a click, and rebook a previous service without having to start from scratch. It's a small thing that makes a big difference to regulars.
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