Let clients book a session and pay the deposit without an email thread

How a booking works

1. You set your availability: working days and hours, slot length and the buffer between appointments.
2. You publish packages from your service catalog: name, duration, price and the deposit you want up front.
3. The client opens your booking page, picks a package and a slot, and pays the deposit by card or PayPal through your Stripe account, or chooses bank transfer.
4. Both of you get a confirmation email; the appointment appears in your Galerly calendar and in your own calendar through the iCal feed.
5. You confirm, decline, move or cancel from the appointment list. The balance is invoiced later, in the client’s currency and language.

Deposits go to your account, not ours

Online payments run through a Stripe Express account in your name; Galerly never holds the money. On the Free plan Galerly takes 15% of the deposit as a platform fee, on Starter and above 0%. Bank transfer carries no fee on any plan. Stripe’s own processing fee applies to card and PayPal payments, as it does with every platform.

Plans and limits

What it does not do

• No two-way Google or Outlook calendar sync. The iCal feed is read-only into your calendar; blocked dates are set in Galerly.
• No mini-session grids with dozens of ten-minute slots sold to different families; packages are one client per slot.
• No client questionnaires attached to the booking. Session details are collected in the welcome document generated from the contract.

Booking, then contract, then gallery

A booking is the start of the record, not the whole job. From the same client you send the quote and the contract for e-signature, the accepted quote can carry the deposit and the signature in one link, and the gallery you deliver later links back to the project. That chain is the reason to book inside the product that delivers.