General Settings

Three things live here, and clients see all three: what your studio is called, the address your website answers on, and where you actually are. Everything else about your site — photos, colours, your story — is on the Website tab.

Go to Studio Configuration → General.

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Name

The name clients see everywhere: on your website, on your booking page, at the top of every confirmation and reminder you send.

It is also what the Google listing search uses, so fill it in before you go looking for your listing.

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Website Address

Your site lives on its own address — yourstudio.bukatime.com — and this is where you choose the first part of it. The address you have now is shown beside the field as a link, so you can open your site and check.

Type a new one and BukaTime checks it as you go. A green tick means This address is available. If the name is already in use you get This address is already taken — and where there are near misses free, an icon beside the field offers them, so one click takes a working address instead of you guessing again.

Addresses are shared across every studio on BukaTime, and a short list is held back for BukaTime's own — app, help, booking and the like. Those come back as This address is reserved.

Click Save to apply.

Changing your address breaks every link that pointed at the old one, and search engines take a while to catch up. Update your social profiles, your Google listing and anything you have embedded on another website after you change it.

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Location

Start typing your street address and pick it from the list — your city, state and country fill themselves in. If your address is not there, Enter the address by hand opens every field for typing instead.

A saved address reads as one line with a Change button beside it, so the search only starts when you ask for it.

Your Google listing sits directly under the address, because the address is what finds it — see Your Studio on Google.

Timezone closes the section, and it is the one every appointment time, reminder and report is counted in. Clients booking online see times in their own timezone; everything is stored in yours.

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Saving

A Save button appears at the top of the page as soon as you change anything. Nothing takes effect until you click it.