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Book Visit Now Features

Book Visit Now gives independent professionals and small service teams the tools to schedule appointments, manage clients, communicate efficiently, and understand business performance - all in one app. It is built for salons, spas, wellness providers, consultants, instructors, repair professionals, and virtually any business that works by appointment.

The app supports iPhone, iPad, and Mac and securely syncs data across devices through iCloud.


Book Visit Now links your existing Apple apps together, creating a single location to use your existing contacts, create an appointment, which syncs to your Apple Calendar, and then use your existing Messages and Email apps together with pre-built templates for reminders and notifications. It includes ingenious built-in tools to help prevent double booking, an appointment notification center, business reporting, appointment notes, and mapping tools to visualize where your clients are coming from.


Book Visit Now was built from real-world experience.

After decades of experience with technology, appointment scheduling, client follow-up, and service-based businesses—and years of trying appointment systems that often seemed more interested in marketing to customers than serving the businesses using them—we decided to build something different.

Book Visit Now puts the focus back where it belongs: on your business, your clients, and your way of working.

Schedule and Calendar

  • Day, week, and month calendar views
  • Streamlined day picker and multi-day capacity view on iPhone
  • Three, five-, or seven-day week views on iPad and Mac
  • Configurable business hours
  • Fifteen-, thirty-, or sixty-minute appointment intervals
  • Color-coded capacity indicators with customizable thresholds
  • At a glance (or touch on iPhone) view of hours and dollars booked for any day
  • Swipe navigation between days on iPhone
  • Special Event icon - User can set up special events in settings that will display a chosen icon on the calendar as a reminder.
  • Slide-out appointment inspector/editor on iPad and Mac
  • Calendar display for staff time off and special events
  • Smart Availability. Control how much open time appears on your calendar by strategically limiting available appointment slots, helping you maintain a fuller-looking schedule while keeping the flexibility you need.

Appointment Management

  • Create and manage appointments by client, provider, location, services, and products
  • Appointment collision detection to help prevent double booking, unless you want to.
  • Add multiple services and products to one appointment
  • Override appointment pricing when needed
  • Override appointment duration
  • Add preparation and cleanup time before or after services
  • Track appointment status, including:
    • Scheduled
    • Checked In
    • Completed
    • No Show
    • Rescheduled
    • Canceled
  • Maintain a complete status and change history
  • Record formulas, products used, results, and appointment notes
  • Detect scheduling conflicts
  • Sync appointments with Apple Calendar
  • Send text and email notifications using the device’s Messages and Mail apps
  • Generate PDF receipts

Mac Desktop View

Mac Desktop view shown with 5 day work week.

 
 
 

iPhone Calendar View

iPhone Calendar day view featuring a sliding week picker at the bottom.
Colored bars will visually represent how full your day is, utilizing user-defined hour thresholds. Pressing and holding on any day will display the actual hours booked along with the estimated charges for that day.

Appointment Reminders

Client Communication & Notification Tools

Stay in touch with clients quickly and consistently using built-in communication tools designed to work with the Apple apps already on your device.

Book Visit Now includes customizable text and email templates that help you prepare common client communications without repeatedly typing the same information for every appointment.


Unlike automated SMS or email marketing platforms, Book Visit Now does not take possession of your clients’ contact information or send messages through an external messaging service. Instead, it helps you prepare and manage communications using the Apple communication tools already on your device, keeping you in control of both the message and the send process.


Appointment Notification Center
View upcoming appointments in chronological order and quickly prepare client notifications by text or email. Visual indicators make it easy to see which appointments have already received notifications, what type of notification was sent, and how many notifications have been recorded.

Customizable Text & Email Templates

Create and edit reusable templates for common client communications, including:

  • Appointment Confirmations
  • Appointment Reminders
  • Cancellations
  • Rescheduling Notifications
  • Long Time No See / Client Follow-Up

Send Through Apple Mail or Messages
Book Visit Now pre-populates the selected communication and opens it in Apple Mail or Messages, where you can review, edit, and send it yourself. The communication remains within the normal Apple workflow rather than being routed through a third-party marketing or messaging platform.

Communicate Directly From Appointments or Client Profiles

From an individual appointment or directly from a Client Profile, you can quickly:

  • Call the client
  • Prepare an email
  • Prepare a text message

These tools help reduce repetitive typing, improve consistency, and keep client follow-up organized while allowing the business to retain control over its client information and communications.


Client Management

  • Integration with Apple Contacts, Apple Calendar, Apple Mail, and Apple Messages
  • Client Profile page show all customer info, notes and appointment history from a single page.
    • Links from within Client Profile Page to Call, Text or Email client. Additional links let you pull up client address in Apple Maps or Google Maps.
  • Client photos pull from Contacts or custom images
  • Pull from existing contacts, or add new clients to contacts during appointment creation
  • Private client ratings emoji. Only you know what the emoji means
  • Client Preferences
  • Client notes
  • “Do Not Book” designation
  • Client acquisition source tracking
  • External referral tracking and estimated referral value
  • Complete appointment and spending history
  • Client appointment status history lets you know how often a client keeps, changes, or cancels appointments
  • Scanned document and PDF storage
  • Client history and spending report PDFs
  • Client archiving without removing historical reporting data
  • Automatic duplicate detection using contact information
  • Flexible, client-specific pricing.
  • Loyalty Discounts
  • Customize service and product pricing for individual clients, apply loyalty discounts, or manually override standard pricing.

Business Reports

Financial Performance

  • Gross revenue, Net profit and taxes collected by time period
  • Revenue split between services and products
  • Sales margins
  • Service and product profitability
  • Missing-cost-data audit for products or services
  • Most and Least profitable services and products.

Staff Performance

  • Booked hours
  • Revenue by provider
  • Rebooking rates
  • Provider-generated referrals and referral value
  • Number of unique clients

Client Value and Retention

  • Highest-value clients
  • Clients with high service costs relative to revenue
  • Clients inactive for 30, 60, or 90 days
  • No-show history
  • Client acquisition sources
  • Referral activity

Business Activity

  • Complete audit trail of bookings, edits, status changes, and deletions

Business Settings

Customize Book Visit Now to reflect how your business actually operates. Business Settings brings your company information, providers, locations, services, products, taxes, scheduling preferences, communications, and appearance together in one place.


Company Information

Set up the core information used throughout the application, including:

  • Business name
  • Mission statement or slogan
  • Company logo

Your business identity can be used throughout Book Visit Now to create a more consistent, professional experience.


Providers & Locations

Configure the people and places associated with your business, including:

  • Provider contact information
  • Multiple business locations
  • Location-specific addresses
  • Room or suite information
  • Telephone details

Providers and locations operating under the same iCloud account can be organized within the same business environment.


Services & Products

Create and maintain a detailed catalog of the services and products your business offers.


For services, you can manage information such as:

  • Service name
  • Appointment duration
  • Customer price
  • Internal cost information

Additional cost details used for business reporting and profitability analysis

Advanced cost tracking allows you to build a more complete picture of what individual services actually cost your business, helping identify higher-cost and higher-margin offerings.


Product management includes:

  • Product names
  • SKUs
  • Selling prices
  • Internal costs
  • Product photos

This information can be used throughout appointments, client records, sales activity, and reporting.


Taxes & Fees

Configure taxation based on the way your business operates, including:

  • Separate tax rates for services and products
  • Tax-rate changes over time
  • Historical tax information for more accurate reporting of past transactions

This helps ensure that historical business records remain consistent even when tax rates change.


Calendar & Booking Rules

Control how your calendar behaves and how appointments can be scheduled.

Settings include:

  • Regular business hours
  • Appointment time intervals
  • Calendar capacity preferences
  • Booking restrictions
  • Scheduling rules
  • Availability exceptions

The Staff Time-Off Planner makes it easy to record vacations, appointments, personal time, or other exceptions without changing your normal business hours.


Client Communication

Customize reusable text and email templates for common client communications, including:

  • Appointment confirmations
  • Appointment reminders
  • Cancellations
  • Rescheduling
  • Client follow-up
  • Long Time No See messages

Templates help create consistent communications while reducing repetitive typing.

Book Visit Now prepares these communications for use with the Apple Mail and Messages apps already on your device, rather than routing client contact information through a separate messaging platform.


Appearance

Choose the interface that works best for you and your Apple devices.


Smart Availability

Smart Availability gives you greater control over how open time is displayed in client-facing calendar views.


Configurable unavailable periods can be incorporated into otherwise open portions of the schedule, allowing businesses to better manage how appointment availability is presented without changing their underlying business hours.


iCloud Sync

Book Visit Now uses iCloud to keep supported business information synchronized across your Apple devices.


Your business records remain within your Apple ecosystem rather than being transferred to a separate Book Visit Now customer database, allowing you to work across supported devices while maintaining control of your information.


Built Around Your Business

Book Visit Now is designed to adapt to different businesses rather than forcing every business into the same workflow. From operating hours and service pricing to communications, taxes, locations, and calendar behavior, Business Settings give you extensive control over how the application works for you.

Book Visit Now - Things to Know