Your passion, powered.

BukaTime runs your calendar, booking page, reminders and waitlist as one system — and the AI receptionist is part of it, answering the texts your clients send with real openings from your own book. You set how far it goes, on a dial with three stops: drafts you approve, answering on its own, or running the whole chat. It opens on the one where nothing sends without you. Move it the day you’re ready, move it back the same afternoon.

14 days free, no credit card. It starts out asking your permission for everything.

The BukaTime calendar on a busy day: every stylist with a column of booked appointments.

Thirteen texts before your first client sits down.

A Friday ask at midnight, a price question at 2am, a reschedule at seven. Every one is a booking waiting to happen — and every one waits until you have a free hand.

With BukaTime: the reply is drafted before you look, the booking is on your calendar, and the reminder is already scheduled.

Thursday, January 16
6:41
Messages 11:58 PM
Maya R.
hiii do you have friday? 🙏
Messages 2:14 AM
Priya K.
how much for a full set?
Messages 7:12 AM
Rachel S.
can i move my 2pm to later??
Messages 9:03 AM
Jordan B.
are you open sunday?

+9 more since last night

BukaTime now
3 new bookings today
5 confirmed for tomorrow, and 4 questions answered.

AI receptionist · add-on, $30/mo per location

You choose how far it goes.

Three stops on one dial. The AI receptionist is the same at every stop — reading the thread, checking the book, working out what the client is actually asking for. What the dial changes is how much of that it is allowed to finish on its own.

Suggest: a client asks to move her Friday lash appointment to the morning, and a drafted reply — saying there are no morning openings and offering the two real afternoon times there are — waits to be sent.
It checked the studio’s book, found nothing free that Friday morning, and offered two real times from the same afternoon. Nothing moves until someone presses send.
Suggest: a client asks for a blowout on Thursday morning, and a drafted reply asking which blowout — Standard at $55 or With Treatment at $80 — waits to be sent.
She never said which blowout. Rather than pick one for her, it drafted the question — with both real prices off the studio’s list.
Suggest: a client cancels his Friday haircut, and a drafted reply waits to be sent with the visit — service, staff member and time — attached to it.
The words say cancelled, but nothing has happened yet. The card above shows exactly what pressing send would free.
Suggest: a client asks the price of a full set of classic lashes, and the drafted answer — $150, about two hours — waits to be sent.
$150 and about two hours are the studio’s own figures, not a guess. It still waits to be sent.
Semi-auto: the same Friday reschedule request, with the same answer worked out but the reply still held for approval.
Semi-auto answers by itself — but moving a booked visit needs a person’s yes, so this one stays a draft.
Semi-auto: the same blowout request, with the question about which blowout drafted and held for approval.
Making a new booking is the other thing semi-auto leaves to the studio, so the question waits here.
Semi-auto: the client's cancellation, already handled — a Cancellation receipt showing the freed visit, and a reply the assistant sent itself.
It cancelled the visit, wrote back to say so, and put the slot back in the book. Nobody approved it.
Semi-auto: the client's price question, already answered by the assistant on its own.
A price question needs nobody’s permission, so it replied and that was the end of it.
Full auto: the same reschedule request, with the assistant's answer already sent and a banner showing it is waiting on her reply until tomorrow evening.
It found nothing free that Friday morning, said so, and offered the real alternatives — then stopped and waited for her answer.
Full auto: the blowout request, with the question about which blowout already sent and a banner showing the two options it offered and how long it will wait.
It would not choose a blowout for her. The question went out unattended, and it books the moment she picks one.
Full auto: the cancellation, processed and confirmed by the assistant on its own, with the Cancellation receipt showing the freed visit.
Cancelled, the client has been told, and the slot is back in the book — with nothing left for the studio to do.
Full auto: the price question, answered by the assistant on its own.
The answer went out the moment her text arrived.

The AI receptionist confirms before it acts. When a client leaves out something it needs in order to book, it asks the client rather than guess at it. When the answer is not in the studio’s own setup, the receptionist stops and asks you instead — at full auto too — and keeps your answer for the next time someone asks the same thing. Every thread stays in your inbox to read or take over, and the dial moves back down whenever you want.

What the add-on includes

$30
a month per location — the same at one chair or ten
250
client requests handled a month, by text or email. Small talk doesn’t count
200
texts per chair a month, up from 100, pooled across the studio
$0
extra at the limit — it steps back and new requests wait for you

Every price, on this page.

We never take a cut of your bookings. You pay per chair, each one cheaper than the last — and the AI receptionist is one flat add-on per location, never per chair.

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An activated, bookable provider. Owners, receptionists and extra logins are free and unlimited.

What you get

  • Online booking page & embed widget
  • Calendar, clients, staff roles & 2FA
  • Waitlist to fill cancellations
  • Dashboard analytics, and extra locations you add yourself
  • 100 two-way texts a month, pooled across the studio
  • Free white-glove migration from any platform

With the AI receptionist:

  • Learns your studio from your own replies, so even the hard questions get answered
  • Books, reschedules, cancels, confirms and works the waitlist
  • You choose the automation level, from approving every draft to fully hands-off
  • Handles 250 client requests a month per location — small talk doesn’t count
Your studio 1 chair $19.50
Your monthly total $19.50
Start free — 14 days

The total is for the whole location, not per chair. Another location prices the same way. Outside it: tax, and an SMS pack if you go past your pooled texts.

Everything else in the shop

The day-to-day, handled.

Online booking

Clients fill your chairs themselves, at any hour of the day.

  • A booking page of your own, plus an embed for your site
  • Clients book, move and cancel themselves — nothing to download
  • No marketplace and no commission. Your clients stay yours.
Booking page and embed →

Fewer no-shows

Fewer empty chairs: reminders that land, and cancelled slots that refill.

  • Reminders confirmed by the carrier, not just marked “sent”
  • One-tap “I’m coming”, and quiet hours in your own timezone
  • The waitlist offers a cancelled slot to the next client in line
Reminders and waitlist →

One calendar for the team

Everyone’s schedule in one place, each with their own hours.

  • Drag-and-drop, per staff member, with their own hours
  • Staff roles and 2FA; owners and front desk are free and unlimited
  • Add a second or third location yourself, no sales call
Calendar and team →

Every client, one thread

The whole relationship, in one conversation.

  • One thread per client — texts and email in the same place
  • Visit history and notes sit beside the conversation
  • Installs on your phone, with push when something needs you
Clients and messages →

A calmer studio starts right here.

Starting fresh or bringing years of clients and appointments with you, BukaTime gives you one place for your calendar, bookings, and client conversations. Switching tools? We’ll move your data for free.

No credit card. No contracts. No cancellation fees.