Your BukaTime Website

You do not have to build anything. The moment your studio goes live, BukaTime gives you a website at your own address — yourstudio.bukatime.com — with your services, prices, opening hours and a booking button already on it. It stays current on its own — add a service, and it appears.

Everything below is optional. It is the difference between a page that works and a page that looks like yours.

Already have a website? You can keep it and put the booking widget on it instead — see Adding the Booking Widget to Your Website. Plenty of studios do both: the widget on their own site, and the BukaTime site as a link for social profiles.

Where to Change It

Go to Studio Configuration → Website. That page has a tab for each page of your site, plus one for the settings that apply to all of them:

• Site settings — your web address, a View site button, the colour scheme every page uses, how your service list is laid out, and your social profiles.
• Main page — your homepage photo and your welcome text.
• About page — your description and your About photo.
• Portfolio page — your gallery of work.

The dot beside each page tab says whether clients can see that page yet. Open the tab and it says so in words — Live, with a link to the page itself, or Not shown yet with the one thing that would change it. A page you have not filled in is not shown to clients at all, so nothing is half-built in public.

Your Story, and Your Welcome Text

These are two different boxes, on two different tabs, and you do not have to fill in both.

Description, on the About page tab, is your story: who you are, what a visit is like. Two or three sentences is plenty. Writing it is what creates the About page.

Write it as you would say it out loud. "A one-chair lash studio on Central Avenue. Every set is mapped and applied by Callie, the owner" tells a client more than a paragraph of adjectives.

Welcome text, on the Main page tab, sits under your homepage photo, above the button through to your services. It is the place for what a first-time visitor needs in one line — "Walk-ins welcome on weekdays", "Parking is behind the building".

Leave the welcome text empty and your main page shows your story instead, so a studio that writes one paragraph still gets a finished-looking site. Fill both in and each page says its own thing.

Clearing your description removes your About page from the site, the same way it appeared when you wrote it.

Photos

Three kinds, all optional, each on the tab for the page it appears on:

Portfolio is where your work goes. One photo is enough to make the page appear; a dozen makes it worth browsing.

Colour Scheme

On the Site settings tab, eleven schemes plus a custom one:

Slate · Midnight · Ocean · Teal · Sage · Sand · Marigold · Cappuccino · Espresso · Rose · Plum

Slate is the default. Pick another and your site's header, background and accents change together — click View site to see it.

Custom

Choose Custom and enter your brand colour as a hex code (#4f6b57), or use the colour picker beside the field.

Your site takes its shade from that colour rather than the colour itself. The header stays dark, the page stays light, and the text stays readable no matter what you pick — so you can enter your exact brand colour without ending up with a page nobody can read.

Your Services Page

Your full menu lives on its own page at /services, reached from Services in your site's menu and from the booking button on your main page. It appears as soon as you have one service, and it carries every price and duration a client wants before they book.

Your main page stays short — your photo, your welcome text, your team and your hours — so a first-time visitor is not scrolling a price list to find out who you are.

Service List Layout

On the Site settings tab, how your services are arranged on that page:

• Auto (recommended) — services with a photo or description get a full-width row; short price-list entries stay compact. Most studios should leave this alone.
• Large photo — every service gets a full row, with its photo wide above the details. Good for a short menu you want to show off.
• Side photo — each photo sits in a narrow, full-height panel beside the service details.
• Compact — photos are hidden for a dense two-column price list. Good for a long menu clients scan rather than read.

Social Profiles

On the Site settings tab there is a box for each of Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X and Yelp. Fill in the ones you use; the rest stay hidden.

You can paste the full link, or just your handle — @yourstudio is enough, and BukaTime turns it into the right address. Yelp works the same way, but it has no handles: paste your listing link, or just the part after /biz/.

They appear as their own icons in the footer of every page of your site. Empty a box to take that profile down.

There is no WhatsApp or Telegram box. A client who messages you there is outside your booking flow, and you will not see it in BukaTime — client messages belong in Messages.

Your Team

If your studio has two or more providers, a Meet our team section appears automatically with their names and photos. A solo studio does not get one — there is no team to introduce.

Staff photos come from each person's profile, not from this page.

Being Found

Your main page, your Services page, your About page and your Portfolio page can all be found on Google. Your main page carries your studio name, description and opening hours in the form search engines read, and your Services page carries your menu and its prices.

Pages you have not filled in are left out, so the fastest way to be findable is to write the description and add a few photos.

Your Google listing is separate from all of this, and lives in its own settings — see Your Studio on Google.