# Take a booking
Put your services and your hours on your site, and let people pick a time that lands on your own calendar.

**Before you start:** A look picked

**About 6 minutes.**

Somebody is looking at your site at nine at night and wants Tuesday morning. This is how they get it without you.

## 1. Add the service, with a length

On **Sell, Offers**, set **Type** to **A service** and fill in **How long it takes**. The length is what makes a bookable time: without it the checkout refuses the booking, so the service would sit on your page and do nothing.

Set **Where** to **In person** or **Over video**. Over video adds a meeting room to the calendar event.

> **On screen:** A service with its length and where it happens

## 2. Set the page to show bookings

On **Website, Design**, under **What your page does**, choose **Take bookings**. A page set to sell products lists nothing that is a service, so this is the step people miss. If you sell both, **Sell, Offers** offers **Show both on my page**.

## 3. Say when you are open

On **Sell, Bookings**, under **When you are open**, set your days and hours. Times are your own wall clock in your own time zone, so nine means nine where you are.

## 4. Connect your calendar

Under **Your calendar**, connect Google Calendar, Outlook or Calendly. We read your free and busy times, so a slot you have already filled is never offered to anybody.

> Calendly is connect-only: we can send a booking to it, and it does not hand its busy times back. Google and Outlook do both. **Settings, Connections** reports which yours can do.

> **On screen:** Sell, Bookings, with hours set and a calendar connected

## What the customer sees

Your services, a calendar, and the times that are actually free. They pick one, pay if the service has a price, and it lands on your calendar with a confirmation in their inbox carrying your name.

## If no times are offered

Work down this list, because it is nearly always one of them:

1. The service has no length.
2. Your page is set to sell products rather than to take bookings.
3. You have set no open hours.
4. The hours you set are already full on your connected calendar.