A better booking experience

Scheduling in Practice Better makes it easy to manage all your appointments, packages, and group sessions. You can set your availability, enable online booking, and let clients schedule directly through your booking link or portal. The platform also supports calendar syncs with Google, Outlook, and iCal so everything stays up to date. Automatic confirmations and reminders are sent to clients, keeping scheduling simple and seamless.

Yes, once you create and invite a client to the platform, they can book their own appointments online. After activation, clients can independently manage their bookings and access any resources you’ve shared with them.

Yes! Scheduling in Practice Better integrates with Google Calendar and Apple Calendar. This keeps your availability up to date, prevents double-booking, and ensures all client appointments automatically sync with your external calendars.

It's very easy to set different availability for each service in Practice Better. Simply create availability slots on your calendar and tailor them by service, method, or location. For example, you could offer discovery calls only on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1–5 pm while reserving other services for different times.

Yes, automated reminders are included with scheduling in Practice Better. You can send up to 3 reminders per appointment by email or SMS, customize each reminder, and even set them up on a service-by-service basis—helping clients stay on track and reducing no-shows.

Yes, clients can reschedule or cancel sessions online. They can do this from the Client Portal under My Resources > Bookings, or by using the “Need to reschedule?” button in their confirmation or reminder emails—if you’ve enabled that option.

Yes, scheduling in Practice Better fully supports time zones. You can set a default time zone in your profile, adjust your calendar view, and book sessions with time zone references. Clients automatically see times in their local time zone, ensuring accurate bookings, reminders, and notifications.

Absolutely. You can accept payments at time of booking by linking a payment processor to your account. Just go to My Practice > My Services, edit the service, and under Payment Options select “Require payment at booking.” You can choose to require full payment or just a deposit, and clients will be prompted to pay when booking your service. Learn more about Practice Better's integrated payment processing software, Practice Better Payments, here.

Group scheduling is available in Practice Better on our Professional, Plus, and Team plans. You can create group services with set durations and fees, set availability slots, and register clients individually or by group. You can also share registration links, manage notifications, and confirm sessions, making it easy to run and manage group classes or workshops.

You can easily block off personal time by going to My Schedule > My Calendar, clicking the Fast Action button, and selecting "Add an event." Enter the event details (and set it to recur if needed) to reserve your time. To block a specific day, just delete that day’s availability slot or add custom non-recurring availability.