How to book an appointment
Booking on Bookbaar takes about a minute. You don't need an account, though making one keeps your appointments and invoices in one place.
1. Find a studio or service
Open the studio's booking page — they'll share the link — or search the marketplace for a studio, service, or professional near you. You can sort results by price or by most recommended — the studios other clients vouch for, counted from real reviews on completed bookings.
2. Pick a service and time
Choose what you'd like and pick from the open time slots. Only times the studio can actually take are shown, so you won't land on a slot that's already gone.
If you arrived by clicking a specific service — from the studio's page or from search — that service is already filled in for you. When more than one person does it, you'll be asked who you'd like; when only one does, they're picked for you and you can go straight on. You can always change your mind by tapping the name shown next to the service, or choose First available to let the studio decide.
3. Add your details
Your name, email, and phone number, so the studio can confirm and remind you. If a service needs some information up front, you'll see a short intake form.
Discount codes and gift cards
Before you confirm, open Discounts & perks to enter a discount code or a gift card. Each is checked as you apply it, and if something is wrong you get a plain explanation — the code isn't recognised, the gift card has expired, or it has no balance left — so you know whether to retype it or use another.
4. Pay or confirm
Depending on the studio you'll either pay online (iDEAL or card) or simply confirm and pay at the studio. Either way, you get a confirmation by email straight away.
After you book
You'll get a confirmation, and one reminder about 24 hours before your appointment — by text, email and app notification where you have them, each sent once. If you made an account, your booking and its invoice appear under My bookings and Invoices. Need to pay an invoice, or cancel or reschedule? You can do both from your account when the studio allows it.
Booking through an AI assistant
You can also ask an assistant: "find me a haircut on Thursday afternoon." If your assistant is connected to Bookbaar, it looks up the studio's real open times and gives you a link that opens the booking page with that slot already filled in. You confirm there, exactly as above; the assistant never books for you. How to connect one, and what it can and cannot see, is in Let AI assistants find and book your salon.
Which time you see
Your account shows every booking in your own time zone, the one your phone or computer is set to. If you're in the same country as the studio, that is simply the studio's time. If you're abroad, a 13:30 appointment in Amsterdam shows as 12:30 in Dublin or 20:30 in Tokyo: the same moment, on your clock.
Emails, text messages and reminders always say the studio's local time, because that's the time on the studio's door. If the two ever differ, you're in another time zone, and the studio's time is the one to arrive by.