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Day to day

Your Home and Today screens, your calendar, adding, moving and cancelling bookings, today's jobs, the texts and emails Busy Book sends, and Busy Book on your phone.

  1. 1 Find your way around Home Today's cleanings, what needs you, your numbers and what Irene did, all on one page. Video 0:44
  2. 2 Your Today screen Today's cleanings, what needs you and tomorrow at a glance, made for your phone. Video 0:31
  3. 3 Use your calendar See every cleaning by month, week or day, colored by where it stands or by who's on it. Video 0:58
  4. 4 See your bookings in Google Calendar Add your Busy Book bookings to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook with one private link. Video 0:39
  5. 5 Add a booking yourself Book a client who called or texted you, with your flat price worked out for you. Repeat cleanings too. Video 1:04
  6. 6 Offer cleanings every 3 weeks Clients book every 3 weeks on your booking page, your website and with Irene, with its own repeat discount.
  7. 7 Show each extra for the right cleanings Pick the cleanings each extra goes with, so a move-out that already includes the oven never offers it.
  8. 8 Keep an extra just for your office Extras like exterior windows, by request only: hidden from clients, your website and Irene, and added by you.
  9. 9 Start new repeat clients with a deep clean A new client's first visit is a deep clean, priced as one, then their standard cleaning continues at its own price.
  10. 10 Have your repeat visits booked for you Busy Book books each repeat client's next visit, 2 days before it, and never a second one when you already booked it.
  11. 11 Find any booking Every booking in one list, sorted into upcoming, awaiting payment, past and cancelled. Video 0:39
  12. 12 Move, change or cancel a booking Move a cleaning to a new day, change its details, cancel it, or mark it done. Video 0:46
  13. 13 Book a free re-clean When a client asks you to come back and fix something, book a free return visit linked to the cleaning, with the partner you pick, paid your way.
  14. 14 Get back something you deleted Deleted bookings, clients, leads, unpaid invoices and places wait in the Trash for 30 days. Restore puts them right back.
  15. 15 See who changed what The Activity log shows every booking moved, price changed, refund given or client deleted, with the old and new values, who did it and when. Grow and Pro.
  16. 16 Raise prices and make bulk changes Raise every repeat client's price from a day you pick, move a partner's visits to someone else, or move or cancel a whole day. Grow and Pro.
  17. 17 Suggest times near jobs you already have When a new client books, Busy Book suggests the days a partner is already working nearby. Less driving, more cleanings a day. Grow and Pro.
  18. 18 Put each day in the best order One tap puts each partner's day in the order with the least driving. You see the minutes saved and every new time before anything changes. Grow and Pro.
  19. 19 Set how long each job holds by home size Busy Book works out how long a cleaning holds your partner's schedule from the bedrooms, bathrooms and size of the home. What clients pay stays the same.
  20. 20 Choose how clients pick a time: exact times, arrival windows or the day only Don't want to promise an exact start time? Give clients arrival windows like 8 to 11 AM, or let them pick the day and set the time yourself later.
  21. 21 Leave time between cleanings Busy Book leaves the time you pick between a partner's cleanings, and the drive when it's longer, so nobody is booked back to back across town.
  22. 22 Choose where you clean, with an optional trip fee List the ZIP codes you clean in. Clients outside them get a kind note and land on your Leads board. Outer ZIP codes can have a flat trip fee.
  23. 23 Move repeat visits off a day you close Close a holiday and Busy Book lists the repeat visits on it, moves them to the next open day or the day before, and can let each client know.
  24. 24 Follow today's jobs See where every partner is today, from the taps on their job screen, and spot the job that needs you. Video 0:43
  25. 25 Choose the texts and emails Busy Book sends Confirmations, reminders, review requests and job offers go out on their own. Pick which ones, and when. Video 0:53
  26. 26 Put your logo on client emails Your logo at the top of the emails your clients get, like confirmations, reminders, invoices and receipts.
  27. 27 Change the words of your texts and emails Make any automatic message to your clients sound like you, see a preview, or let Irene rewrite it in your voice.
  28. 28 Put Busy Book on your phone Add Busy Book to your home screen like an app, and turn on alerts so your phone buzzes when something needs you. Video 0:38
  29. 29 Your month in review and celebrations On the 1st of each month, Busy Book shows last month's wins in your own numbers, and it cheers your milestones. Video 0:38
  30. 30 Download a list as a spreadsheet Bookings, clients, invoices, payments, partners, leads and expenses, each as a file that opens in Excel or Google Sheets.
  31. 31 Print day sheets for your partners One page for each partner's day, in order, plus one page for the whole day.
  32. 32 Save your favorite filters Filter Bookings or Clients the way you like and save it with a name.
  33. 33 Try Busy Book with practice mode A practice client and practice cleanings that never send, charge or count.
  34. 34 Set when clients can change or book a cleaning How close to a cleaning clients can still move or cancel it themselves, an optional late move fee, and how far ahead they can book.
  35. 35 Use a waitlist for full times Clients join a waitlist when a time is full, and you hear who's waiting when it opens. Off until you turn it on. Grow and Pro.

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