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30 days · $2,500 · fixed

Ship It Live · booking sprint

A booking app your customers actually use, live in 30 days.

Customers book themselves, deposits are taken up front, and the no-show texts stop being your job. Fixed price, fixed deadline, agreed before anything starts.

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Quick answer

A booking and appointment app can be designed, built and taking real reservations in 30 days for a fixed $2,500. That covers customer booking, staff availability rules, deposits or full payment, automated reminders, and calendar sync. Complex multi-location resource scheduling is quoted separately.

The plan

Day one to day 30, written down.

You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.

  1. 1

    Days 1–3

    Scope lock

    How your availability actually works — services, durations, staff, rooms, buffers. This is the least glamorous conversation in the sprint and the one that decides whether the app fits your business.

  2. 2

    Days 4–12

    Design

    The customer booking flow first, because that is the one that has to be effortless, then the staff and owner views. You see real screens within the first week.

  3. 3

    Days 13–24

    Build

    Availability engine, payments, calendar sync and the reminder pipeline. Booking logic is where these apps break, so it gets built early and tested hard.

  4. 4

    Days 25–28

    Test on real cases

    Your genuine edge cases — the double-booked Saturday, the staff holiday, the last-minute cancellation, the deposit refund. Better found now than by a customer.

  5. 5

    Days 29–30

    Launch

    Payments live, reminders switched on, staff walked through it, and your booking link out in the world.

What $2,500 gets you

Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.

Customer booking flow designed for a phone, in under a minute
Availability rules — hours, breaks, buffers, holidays, per-staff
Deposits or full payment at the point of booking, via Stripe
Automated confirmations and reminders by email and SMS
Two-way sync with Google Calendar so double-bookings cannot happen
A staff view for the day's schedule, plus reschedules and cancellations
An owner dashboard: bookings, revenue, no-shows, repeat customers
Source code, design files and 30 days of support at handover

Who books this

Built for

Clinics, salons, studios and consultants still booking over WhatsApp

Businesses paying per-seat for software that does not fit how they work

Anyone losing bookings because the only way to make one is to call

The honest part

When 30 days is the wrong answer.

A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.

Multi-location scheduling across dozens of resources with dependency rules — genuinely complex, genuinely worth doing properly, and not a 30-day job.

Anything touching insurance billing or clinical records, where the compliance work is larger than the booking work.

Businesses that do not yet know their own availability rules. We can work that out together, but it is a scoping engagement first, not a build.

Questions

Before you book

If one of them fits, use it — I will say so on the call rather than sell you a build. Custom wins when your availability rules do not fit their model, when per-seat costs have grown past what a build costs, or when the booking flow is part of your brand rather than a redirect to someone else's page.

30 days from now, this could be live.

A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.