Free online booking for solo and small service businesses

Online booking and scheduling for private chefs.

List your dinners, meal prep and cooking classes with a price, set your travel area, and clients book themselves.

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Free plan, no credit card required

What your clients see. The starter booking page for your trade, services already filled in. Clients pick a service and an open time, add a few details, and send the request. No account, no app.

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Let clients book without leaving your site

Already have a website? Paste one line of code and your booking page opens right on it - card payments, deposits and all.

Works with WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, GoDaddy and any website that takes custom HTML.

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Built around how private chefs actually book clients

No forced payment processor, no setup calls. Just a page clients can book on today.

Built for one chef

No staff accounts or shared calendars - just your own hours and the menus you actually offer.

Address collected up front

Since you cook at the client's home, the booking form asks for their address by default.

Upsell wine pairings and extra guests

Offer a wine pairing or additional guest as an add-on scoped to the right menu, so pricing never gets mixed up.

Everything your booking page needs

Every setting below lives in your dashboard and takes effect on your public booking page immediately.

Service menu & pricing

List every menu or package you offer with its own duration and price.

Add-ons scoped to menus

Offer a wine pairing only with the menus it makes sense for.

Address collected automatically

Mobile-service business types collect the client's address on the booking form by default.

Blackout dates

Block off days you're already booked or unavailable, in one click.

Coupons

Offer a repeat-client discount code, with an optional expiry.

Booking button

Add a 'Book a Chef' button to your own site or Instagram bio.

What a private chef booking page starts with

Pick Private Chef at sign-up and setup suggests these services, add-ons and prices. Keep, reprice or untick them as you go, and change anything later under Settings > Service types and Add-ons.

Three steps to your first booking

01

Sign up - your starter menu is ready

Tell us your business name. Your booking page starts with the Private Chef menus and add-ons shown above, so you're not starting from a blank page - change anything in Settings.

02

Customize your settings

Set your hours, prices, policies, and notification preferences from your dashboard - most changes take seconds.

03

Share your link

Send clients to your booking page, embed it on your site, or link it from social media. Bookings land straight in your dashboard.

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Everything you need to take real bookings.
  • Your own public booking page
  • Unlimited services & add-ons
  • Business hours & blackout dates
  • Coupons & tax
  • Spam & VPN protection
  • Card payments via Stripe
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Questions private chefs ask

Can I offer a wine pairing only with certain menus?

Yes - each add-on can be restricted to specific menus, like offering a wine pairing only with the in-home dinner or private event booking.

Do clients have to book through my booking page, or can I add bookings myself?

No. Clients don't need to use your public booking page for a booking to show up in your account. You can click Add client to save someone's contact details ahead of time, or use New booking to log an appointment yourself. That's handy for phone calls, emails, walk-ins and referrals. Price it from your services and add-ons, or choose Custom quote to enter a one-off price you've already agreed. It works like your booking page: add more than one person, pet or vehicle to one booking (if you've turned that on), answer your own booking questions, apply a coupon code, and see your open times for the day - required questions can be left blank, and you can still pick any time. These bookings sit in the same account as your online ones, so you can keep all your clients and appointments in one place. Bookings you create yourself don't email the client automatically. Open the booking and click Email client to send a pre-filled confirmation.

Can clients pay me by credit or debit card?

Yes - turn on Stripe Payments in your dashboard and a client's card gets charged, in full or as a deposit, straight into your own Stripe account before their request is even sent. It's entirely optional, though - you're always in control of payment, and can just as easily take cash, run a card in person with something like Square, or send your own payment link instead.

Can clients tell me their address and dietary needs when they book?

Yes - the booking form collects the client's address by default, plus any custom questions you add like dietary restrictions.

Can I charge per additional guest?

Yes - a quantity add-on lets a client pick how many extra guests they need, and the total updates automatically.

Do clients need to download anything to book?

No - 1MinuteBooking is entirely web-based and works from any browser, on desktop or mobile.

Can I offer a discount for repeat clients?

Yes - coupons apply a percent or flat-amount discount to the pre-tax subtotal, with an optional expiry date.

Can I charge for travel, and block time on my calendar for the drive?

Yes - with location options. The Private Chef preset starts with "Within 20 miles (30 km) of us" (no charge), "20-40 miles (30-65 km) away" (+$30) and "More than 40 miles (65 km) away - we confirm first" (+$60). Change the names, prices and travel times, or add your own, under Settings > Locations. The extra price is added to the client's total and shown next to the location on your booking page. An optional note above the options can say where the distance is measured to. Each location also has a travel time - your drive. It is never shown to the client and is not added to their appointment. It blocks your calendar so no one can book you during the drive: before the appointment by default, or before and after if you set "A location's travel time blocks your calendar" to Before and after (Settings > Locations). For example, a 10:00-11:00 AM appointment with 30 minutes of travel blocks 9:30-11:00 AM, or 9:30-11:30 AM with Before and after.

Is this private chef scheduling software, or just a booking form?

Both. Your booking page only offers start times that fit: inside your hours (up to two windows a day), long enough for the service plus any add-ons, clear of other bookings and your buffer, and within your notice and advance limits. Blackout dates take days off the page, and whether an unconfirmed request holds its slot is your call under Settings > Hours & availability. If you travel, the travel time on each location blocks your calendar around the appointment without showing on the client's side. There's no two-way calendar sync, texting or automatic reminders: a confirmed booking has an Add to Calendar button for Google, Apple and Outlook, and a one-click reminder email.

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