Getting started with Squarespace Scheduling

With Squarespace Scheduling, clients can book appointments or classes seamlessly online. Scheduling only displays the times you're available and encourages clients to book appointments on their own while capturing all the information you need.

We've merged the Acuity Scheduling Help Center with the Squarespace Help Center. This guide applies to both versions of Scheduling.

Essential first steps to add Scheduling to your site and start booking appointments.

Tip: Register for our Squarespace Scheduling webinar series where we'll teach you how to use Scheduling. The Fundamentals webinar is ideal if you’re new to Scheduling. The Next Steps webinar includes topics like customizing a scheduler and appointment notifications, using multiple staff members, syncing third-party calendars, and more.

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Before you begin

• You can use Scheduling with a Squarespace site through the scheduling block, use it on its own, or use it with another provider's website.
• Scheduling is an Acuity product designed for Squarespace. If you're already an Acuity customer, keep using the scheduling block with your existing Acuity account.
• If you get started and decide you want more hands-on help, you can hire a vetted Squarespace Expert.

Scheduling trials

All Squarespace sites have access to a free Scheduling trial, or you can start a trial without having a Squarespace site. To learn more, visit Starting a Scheduling trial.

Subscribe after your trial ends

To keep using Scheduling after the trial, upgrade to a paid Scheduling subscription:

1. In Scheduling, click the prompts to upgrade.
2. Choose a Monthly or Annual billing cycle.
3. Select the Scheduling plan that fits your needs
4. Click Confirm Payment.

How to access Scheduling

You can log into Squarespace Scheduling or Acuity Scheduling from the Acuity Scheduling login page. To log in, navigate to acuityscheduling.com/login.php, enter your username, and click Next.

You'll be taken to the correct version of Scheduling and prompted to finish logging in.

If your email is connected to both an Acuity Scheduling and a Squarespace Scheduling subscription, Scheduling will ask you which you want to use before you finish logging in.

If you have more than one Squarespace Scheduling subscription, Scheduling will ask which one you want to use after you log in.

Other ways to access Squarespace Scheduling

If you have Squarespace Scheduling, you can also access Scheduling from the Home menu or your account dashboard. If you have more than one Scheduling subscription, there will be a Scheduling button for each subscription in the account dashboard.

Set your availability

Use availability to decide when you're open for appointments. You can:

• Set regular weekly hours.
• Cancel regular weekly hours on particular days using override hours.
• Use override hours in place of regular weekly hours to set hours day-by-day.

After you've set your availability, a small version of your Scheduling calendar will appear in the left menu of the Scheduling panel. Specific days will be highlighted as clients book appointments.

To learn more, visit Managing availability and calendars.

Add appointment types

Create appointment types for the different services you offer. Clients usually begin the scheduling process by choosing the appointment type they want to book.

To learn more, visit Creating and editing appointment types.

Add Scheduling to your site

Share your scheduling page with clients by adding a scheduling block to your Squarespace site. Connect the scheduling block to your general scheduling page to show clients all of your appointment types that are public and available to book.

Tip: To make an appointment type exclusive to certain visitors, add the scheduling block to a member area.

As your Scheduling account grows, you can use a drop-down menu that will appear here to connect the block to specific calendars, categories of appointment types, and more.

You can also share your scheduling page outside of Squarespace.

To link to your scheduling page:

1. In Scheduling, click Scheduling page link.
2. Under Direct links & embedding, click Direct link.
3. Use the drop-down menu to select either the general scheduling page or direct schedulers for specific appointment types, calendars, and more. If you have only one appointment type and one calendar, this drop-down menu won't appear.
4. Click Copy to copy the link.
5. Paste the link wherever you're sharing your general scheduling page.

You can then customize the direct link to your general scheduling page, specific appointment types, and individual calendars. Learn more in Customizing your Scheduling links.

Integrate Scheduling with other applications

Scheduling connects with Squarespace websites and Email Campaigns, but you can also connect directly to dozens of third-party applications, and connect to hundreds more through API services such as Zapier.

You can sync calendars with:

• iCloud
• Outlook
• Google Calendar

You can collect payments through:

• Stripe
• Square
• PayPal

You can set up video conferencing with:

• Zoom
• Google Meet
• Join.me
• GoToMeeting

Scheduling also integrates with social media, email marketing options, accounting software, conversion tracking, CRM tools, client engagement applications, and more.

To review all your options and set up an integration, in Scheduling, click Integrations.

Note: It's not possible to directly integrate Scheduling with any electronic medical record or electronic health record software.

More help

After completing the steps in this guide, you're ready for clients to book appointments. In addition to our guides and video tutorials, we offer other resources to help you get the most out of Squarespace Scheduling:

• Visit Squarespace Scheduling FAQ for answers to common Scheduling questions.
• Hire a vetted Squarespace Expert to set up Scheduling for your site.