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Appointment Management

Bookings, staff and reminders under one calendar.

A scheduling system for any business that sells time. Customers book from a public page, staff see only their own calendar, and automated reminders cut no-shows without a single manual phone call.

Modules

  • Calendar
  • Bookings
  • Services
  • Staff
  • Customers
  • Notifications
  • Reports

Best for

  • Clinics & diagnostics
  • Salons & spas
  • Consultants
  • Service centres
  • Training centres
The problem

Why the appointment book stops working

A paper diary and a hotline hold up until roughly the day you get busy. These are the five failures that follow.

Bookings lost on a busy line

When the hotline is engaged, the caller does not wait — they call the next clinic on the list. Nobody ever finds out how many appointments were lost that way.

What replaces it

  • Online booking page open all night
  • Missed-call callback queue
  • Every enquiry logged, answered or not

Double bookings and clashes

Two people writing in the same diary, one of them on the phone and one at the counter, will eventually put two customers in the same slot — usually on the busiest day.

What replaces it

  • Real-time availability, one source
  • Slot locked the moment it is taken
  • Staff and room conflicts blocked

No-shows nobody reminded

Most no-shows are not cancellations — they are people who forgot. Manual reminder calls are the first thing dropped when the front desk gets busy.

What replaces it

  • Automatic SMS and WhatsApp reminders
  • Confirm or reschedule by reply
  • Waitlist fills a cancelled slot

Staff schedules on a whiteboard

Leave, chamber hours and shift swaps live in somebody's head. Bookings get taken for a doctor who is not in that day, and the apology call comes later.

What replaces it

  • Working hours, breaks and leave in the system
  • Bookings blocked outside real availability
  • Staff see only their own calendar

No record of the last visit

The customer returns after four months and has to explain everything from the start, because the previous visit exists only as a line in a register.

What replaces it

  • Visit history on every profile
  • Notes, documents and outcomes attached
  • Repeat-visit and recall reporting
How it works

From the first call to the next visit

Six stages that run themselves, so your front desk stops being a switchboard.

Stage 1Enquiry

The request arrives by hotline, website, WhatsApp or the counter. Whichever door it came through, it becomes the same record with the same fields.

Capabilities

What the system handles for you

Booking, staff calendars, reminders and reporting — for any business that sells time rather than stock.

Online booking page

A public page on your own domain showing live availability, so customers book at midnight without anyone answering a phone.

Hotline & call handling

Route hotline calls to whoever is free, see the caller's history on screen, and queue missed calls for callback.

Staff & resource calendars

Per-person, per-room and per-service calendars with working hours, breaks, leave and holiday rules built in.

Automated reminders

SMS, WhatsApp, email and push reminders on a schedule you set, in Bangla or English, with reply-to-confirm.

Queue & token management

Token numbers, live queue display and average wait time, so the waiting room manages itself.

Customer records

Full visit history, notes, uploaded documents and outcomes on one profile, searchable by name, phone or ID.

Payments & invoicing

Advance payment, on-site collection, discounts and receipts, reconciled against the day's appointment list.

Reporting

Bookings, cancellations, no-shows and utilisation by staff, service, branch and day of week.

Key features

Online booking page with real-time availability

Staff, service and location based scheduling

SMS, email and push reminders

Rescheduling, cancellation and waitlist handling

Customer history and visit notes

Working hours, breaks and holiday rules

Daily, weekly and staff-wise reporting

Outcomes

What changes at the front desk

Fewer calls, fewer no-shows, and a schedule that everyone is looking at the same version of.

A quieter front desk

Routine bookings, confirmations and reschedules move to self-service, so staff answer the calls that actually need a person.

Fewer empty slots

Automated reminders and a waitlist that refills cancellations keep the day's schedule closer to full.

One schedule everyone trusts

Counter, hotline, branch and staff all read and write the same calendar, so the argument about which version is right disappears.

Customers who come back

Visit history and recall reminders turn a one-time appointment into a relationship you can actually follow up on.

AI assisted

The schedule that spots its own gaps

Booking history is a forecast waiting to be read. The system learns which slots go empty, which customers cancel late, and which reminder timing actually gets a reply — then suggests the schedule and reminder plan that fits your week.

No-show risk
Flags the bookings worth a confirmation call
Demand patterns
Which hours and days fill first, by service
Reminder timing
The send time that actually gets a reply
Recall windows
When a returning customer is due back
Call analysisLive
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Who it is for

Built for every business that runs on a calendar

Same engine, different vocabulary: patients, clients, students or customers — and the rules that go with each.

Hospitals & clinics

Doctor chambers, consultation duration, department-wise queues and patient recall on a schedule.

Diagnostic centres

Test-wise slots, fasting and preparation instructions in the reminder, and report-ready notifications.

Salons & spas

Service duration, stylist preference, package tracking and slot pricing that changes by day and hour.

Consultants & chambers

Paid consultation slots, advance collection, document upload before the meeting and session notes after it.

Service & repair centres

Job slots by technician and bay, estimated turnaround, and status updates the customer receives automatically.

Training & coaching centres

Batch and one-to-one sessions, trial class booking, attendance and re-enrolment reminders.

Questions

Appointment questions we get asked most

Short answers. Send us your setup and we will reply with specifics.

Yes. A public booking page on your own domain shows live availability, and bookings can also come from WhatsApp, Messenger or the counter — all into the same calendar.

Need this product tailored to your workflow?

Every product can be extended, rebranded and integrated with the systems you already use.