Who it’s for
Meeting scheduler for coaches
Discovery calls, paid sessions, and the cancellations that eat coaching revenue, handled before you hear about them.
Where the time goes
- A no-show is an unbillable hour you prepped for.
- Booking over DMs makes you the front desk of your own practice.
- A Thursday cancellation leaves a dead slot no one else knows opened up.
- Charging for sessions by separate invoice adds a chase to every booking.
The part that runs itself
CC your scheduler
Booking in plain English
Rebooking that runs itself
A real scheduler underneath
What it takes off your week
01
The prospect thread books itself
A prospect replies "sounds good, when works?" and the deal sits in a four-email time negotiation while their motivation cools.
CC scheduler@buildoutschedule.com on the thread. It drafts the reply from your own Gmail with openings that are actually free, you approve it, and when the prospect answers with a pick the call books itself: invite, confirmation, reminders.
The scheduling email you used to write at 9pm becomes one tap on your phone.
02
Booked means paid
The session happened Tuesday. The invoice went out Thursday. The payment lands whenever the client remembers.
Put a price on the session type and the client pays as they book, through your own Stripe account. Buildout Schedule takes 0% of it, and refunds follow the cancellation policy you set.
No session starts unpaid, and nothing about money happens after the session.
03
Standing clients, one booking
Your Tuesday 4pm client rebooks week to week, and every few weeks the slot slips away from them.
Turn on recurring for the session type and the client books the whole run in one pass, weekly or biweekly, up to the cap you set. On every paid plan.
Twelve Tuesdays on the calendar from one booking.
04
Cancellations refill themselves
A Thursday cancellation is dead revenue when the only person who knows the slot opened is you.
Put a waitlist on your busiest session times. A canceled spot offers itself to the next person in line with a claim window, then rolls on down the list.
The client who wanted Thursday gets Thursday. You find out when it books.
05
No-shows get rarer and cheaper
You prepped an hour for a client who forgot, and the hour bills nobody.
Reminders go out 24 hours and 1 hour before every session, by text too on Solo and up through your own Twilio account. The reply to any confirmation email offers three real open slots, so a conflict becomes a move.
The forgetful client reschedules on Tuesday instead of missing on Thursday.
06
One link that sells before it books
Booking over DMs makes you the front desk of your own practice, and a bare calendar link does zero selling.
Your Rep Card puts client results and a save-my-contact button around the book button, with the free discovery call and paid sessions on the same page. The Coach / Consultant template sets the whole funnel up in one pick.
The link in your bio is a pitch that takes bookings.
Where it fits
- The discovery-to-paid funnel: a free intro call and paid working sessions on one page.
- A waitlist on your busiest session times that fills its own cancellations.
- Fitness coaches running class blocks beside 1-on-1 training, each with its own rules.
- Post-session follow-up drafts that wait for your approval before anything sends.
How coaches use Buildout Schedule
- 1
Put the funnel on one link
Free discovery call and paid working sessions, separate event types on one page. The discovery call books free; the working session is paid the moment it books.
- 2
Lead with results
Your Rep Card carries client outcomes with real numbers and the book button on the same page. The link you drop in a bio or a reply is the pitch.
- 3
Let cancellations fix themselves
Waitlists take the cancellation churn, rebooking replies take the reschedules, and reminders cut the no-shows that were never going to email you.
The Coach / Consultant template
The Coach / Consultant template starts you with the discovery-call funnel: free intro, paid sessions, and a results-first Rep Card.
Customer stories
Next to the tools coaches already use
Practice, Paperbell, and the coaching platforms
Those tools run the whole coaching back office: client records, contracts, program content, file storage. They are good at it, and Buildout Schedule does not pretend to be them. This is the scheduling and payment layer: sessions booked and paid on one link, with an AI that answers the scheduling email. Coaches run it beside a coaching platform, or alone until they need one.
Calendly
Calendly Teams runs $16 per user a month billed annually (their published price, August 2026) and beats us on group events and native mobile apps. Here, Solo is $9 flat, waitlists and recurring sessions are in the product, payments carry a 0% platform fee, and the AI drafts from your own inbox on every plan.
Pricing
Free — $0
Solo — $9/mo flat
Pro — $16/person/mo
Team — $30/person/mo
Annual billing takes 20% off, two years takes 30%. Full pricing
Common questions
How does Buildout Schedule fill a canceled coaching slot?
A canceled session offers the slot to your waitlist with a first-in-line claim window. Or the client’s reply to their confirmation email gets three real open slots back, one tap each to rebook.
Can I charge for sessions at booking?
Yes. Paid event types charge through Stripe Checkout when the client books. Money settles to your own Stripe account, refunds follow your cancellation policy, and the platform fee is 0%.
How do waitlists work?
Add a waitlist to a session type and a canceled spot offers itself to the next person in line with a claim window. You do not manage the backfill.
What does the AI actually send?
Only what you approve. Scheduler drafts wait in an inbox; rebooking emails offer only slots your availability rules say are open. Nothing goes out on its own.
Can a client hold a standing weekly session?
Yes, on any paid plan. Turn on recurring for the session type, pick the cadences you allow, and set a cap. The client books the whole run in one pass and every session lands on both calendars.
Can I sell session packages through Buildout Schedule?
Not as a self-serve feature yet. Today each paid session charges at booking, and a standing client books a recurring run in one pass instead. Package selling is built and rolling out slowly; email us from the contact page if you want in early.
What does it cost?
The free plan runs one meeting type at $0, not as a trial. Solo is $9 a month flat with unlimited meeting types. Pro is $16 per person per month and Team is $30 per person, with annual billing 20% off.
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Put your booking on one link that runs itself.
Free plan. No credit card. Not a trial.