Getting started with Bookicorn

Bookicorn is a booking platform for providers of courses, appointments and reservations. You manage everything in the Bookicorn Manager, and your customers book on your own booking page or in the customer app. This page walks you from creating your account to your first bookable page.

What you work with in Bookicorn

As a provider, Bookicorn has two parts for you:

• Bookicorn Manager: this is where you create offerings, sessions, customers, trainers and settings. You use it in the browser at app.bookicorn.net or as an app for Android. More on this in The Bookicorn Manager.
• Your booking page: every studio gets its own address on bookicorn.net when signing up. That's where customers see your offerings and book on their own.

Your customers can also use the customer app. More on this in The customer app.

Create an account and try it for free

You create a Bookicorn account at app.bookicorn.net/registrieren. In the Create your account form, you enter:

1. Email
2. What's your business called?
3. Your address: the address of your booking page. If it's already taken, Bookicorn suggests a free one.
4. Your consent to the terms, the privacy policy and the data processing agreement.

With Get started for free, Bookicorn sends a code to your email address (Confirm your address). After that, you set your password (Secure your account).

For the first 14 days you can use all features, without a credit card. After that, you continue for free on the Free plan. What each plan includes is explained in Pricing tiers and booking volume, and the prices are on the pricing page.

The assistant on first launch

When you open the Manager for the first time, a short assistant guides you through three pages:

1. Welcome: first name, last name and phone number. Optionally, you can find your studio with Find on Google and take over the address, phone, website and opening hours.
2. What do you do?: your industry. This decides the suggestions for your first offering and the terms used, for example whether you say trainer, teacher or coach.
3. Four steps until you are online: the overview of the setup. Here you choose Set up myself or the setup service (We set it up for you).

Bookicorn detects your country, currency and time zone from your device. They appear as a sentence at the bottom of the first two pages, and you adjust them with change. That's also where you set the Language of your booking page. Your customers see the booking page and receive their emails in this language.

The four steps to a bookable page

After the assistant, your dashboard shows the Make your page bookable card with the open steps:

1. Add your place: your first location. An address or online, it later appears on your page and in every confirmation. More in Set up your studio.
2. Create offering: your first offering with at least one session. Templates from your industry help you with this. More in Create your first offering.
3. Set up payment: at least one payment method. Payment on site is enough to start.
4. Go live: make your page publicly bookable or test it privately first.

If your studio uses the Resources addon, there's an extra step, Add resources. You can go live as soon as a location and an offering with a session are in place. The card on the dashboard shows how many steps are still open. Via the help button, you find your way back with Continue setup.

Setup service: Bookicorn sets up your studio

If you don't have time for the setup, the Bookicorn team sets up your studio for you. The service costs a one-off 400 € and includes:

• a short call to clarify how your studio works,
• setting up your offerings, times, payment methods and your booking page,
• 1 hour of personal one-to-one advice so you can handle everything yourself,
• a fully set up, bookable page.

You can request the service via the contact form on bookicorn.net. On the home page and the pricing page, the Request setup service button takes you straight there, with the message already filled in. In the assistant on first launch, you see the option We set it up for you.

Help in the Manager

At the bottom right of the Manager is the help button (Help and actions). It gives you access to:

• Ask Iris: the AI assistant for questions about Bookicorn.
• Give feedback: report a bug or share a wish. This creates a ticket for the Bookicorn team.
• Contact: the Bookicorn team's contact form.
• Continue setup: as long as your setup isn't finished yet.

You can reach the team by email at hey@bookicorn.net.

Frequently asked questions

How much does the trial cost? Nothing. For the first 14 days you can use all features without a credit card, and after that you continue for free on the Free plan.

Do I need Stripe to get started? No. One payment method is enough, for example payment on site or bank transfer. You can add online payment via Stripe or PayPal later.

When can customers start booking with me? As soon as a location and an offering with at least one session are in place, a payment method is active and you've set your page live.

Can Bookicorn set up my studio for me? Yes, with the setup service for a one-off 400 €. You can request it via the contact form on bookicorn.net.

Where do I find the setup again if I interrupted it? On the dashboard in the Make your page bookable card, or via the help button with Continue setup.