Bookables was built for the businesses on it. If you are here to book a cleaner rather than to run a cleaning company, you have been borrowing their furniture: their navigation, their account screens, their idea of what a busy week looks like. All of that has been pulled apart and rebuilt for you.
- A layout that is yours, not theirs. A slim rail down the side keeps your pages one click away, and opens out into your conversations when you want to read one. Nothing on it is there for a business.
- A phone screen worth using. Your pages moved to a bar along the bottom, where your thumb already is, and your conversations slide up when you need them. No side bar to reach for.
- Never start at a blank box. Asking for something used to mean an empty message box and a guess at what to type. Now you get the things people actually book, sorted by category, so you can pick one and go.
- An account you can get through in a minute. Your profile is one card with a row for each detail, so changing your name or your number is a tap on the row rather than a hunt through five separate boxes. Every tab now behaves the same way.
- Save the house, the car, the dog. Keep the things you book for: houses, business premises, cars, bikes, boats, family members and pets. Before this, all you could save was an address.
- Your week reads like a week. Upcoming bookings sit under the day they happen, with Today and Tomorrow named. Two jobs on the same morning now read as one morning.
- A price on every time you are offered. When the chat comes back with times, each one carries the price, the kind of work, and how long it runs. Tap the one that suits and it is booked.
- It knows where the job is. The chat asks for the address first, offers the places you have already saved, and only puts up businesses whose service area actually reaches you. A one-off address, like a rental or your mum's place, stays on that job and leaves your saved details alone.
This is the point where it stops being a business tool you happen to have a login for.