Booking site
WordPress templates for businesses that sell time
A booking site sells a slot, not a product. So the first thing it has to know is what is actually being reserved, and the answer is different in every trade: a person, a room, a seat on a departure, or a two hour window when a van arrives at the customer’s door. All of these templates run on the same booking engine. They differ in that one decision, and that decision shapes the rest of the site.
Businesses whose customers pick a date and a time themselves instead of ringing you: barbers, driving instructors, clinics, studio hire, boat trips, home visits.
Booking sites
Pick by what the customer is reserving, not by industry. A person — Bellwether and Fulcrum Clinic let the customer choose the individual, and each person keeps their own hours and days off. A room — Loomshed treats each studio as the resource, priced by half day, full day or evening. A seat on a departure — Ninefathom sells several places on one sailing rather than someone’s calendar. An arrival window — Kettlebrook turns the location axis around: the customer picks the suburb they live in and a two hour window, not a branch to visit. A lesson with an instructor — Clearway combines the person, their areas and their week.
Site templates
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Fulcrum Movement Clinic
A complete booking site for a clinic — 18 page templates, 58 pieces of demo content and 32 images, with appointments handled on the site itself.
Bellwether
A complete barbershop booking site: 20 page templates, 61 pieces of demo content and 27 photographs, with two shops and eight barbers already wired up.
Clearway
A complete driving school site: 25 page templates, 79 pieces of demo content and 44 images, with seven instructors, their areas and their weekly availability.
Loomshed
A complete studio hire site: 25 page templates, 85 pieces of demo content and 60 photographs, with five rooms, their kit lists and their rates.
Ninefathom
A complete tour booking site: 24 page templates, 76 pieces of demo content and 67 photographs, with trips, boats, a species guide and a sightings log.
Kettlebrook
A complete home services site: 26 page templates, 83 pieces of demo content and 71 images, with fixed price jobs, service areas and arrival windows.
- The customer books without an account and without ringing you.
- Availability is computed from real working hours, days off and existing bookings, not from a sentence someone typed on a page.
- No WooCommerce: nothing goes through a basket, so there is no cart, no shipping and no checkout to maintain.
- Each one ships with the industry’s own content already written, so you edit a working site instead of filling in an empty one.
Before you buy
- Can the customer choose which member of staff they get?
- Yes, and it is a real step in the booking flow rather than a line of marketing copy. Each person keeps their own hours and days off, so a colourist who only works Tuesdays never appears on a Monday, and anyone on leave drops out of the picker without you editing a page.
- Do I need a payment gateway?
- No. These templates take the booking. Whether money changes hands on the site, on arrival or on an invoice afterwards is your decision, and none of them assumes one.
- What if I book rooms rather than people?
- Then start from Loomshed. The booking engine treats the room itself as the resource with its own availability, which is a different model from picking a person, and building it the other way around produces a calendar that is quietly wrong.