With appointment booking, your Shopify store becomes more than just a place to sell products. Instead of just adding items to a cart, your customers can book time slots for services, consultations, or unique experiences.
Let's set up booking for a product step by step:
Step 1: Choose your booking setup
When you open SLOT, you'll see two options:
Link to a product: Connect bookings to an existing Shopify product
Create custom page: Make a standalone booking page (Pro feature)
For creating a booking for for product, continue with 'Link to a product'.
Click on the "Select product" dropdown field
Choose the product/service you want to enable booking for
Click "Next" to continue
Step 2: Calendar Settings
Select the schedule type (weekly, biweekly, etc.) from the dropdown
Toggle the "With breaks" switch if you want to add breaks during your working hours (optional)
Sunday & Saturday: These are set to "Unavailable" by default
Monday through Friday: Set your working hours
Use the time dropdowns to adjust start and end times for each day
Use "Apply to all" to copy Monday's schedule to all weekdays
Click the "X" button to set an unavailable day:
Step 3: Exceptions & Scheduling Conditions
Days of Unavailability: Toggle this setting if you want to make specific timeframes unavailable (Pro feature)
Number of Appointments per Time Slot:
Select "Limited" from dropdown
Set "Max number of appointments per slot" (default is 1)
Number of Appointments per Day: Keep as "Not limited" or set a daily limit
Advance Notice:
Toggle this setting to prevent last-minute bookings
Set the minimum time (e.g., "1 Minutes" before appointment starts)
Step 4: Appointment Settings
Duration:
Keep "All day event" toggle OFF for timed appointments
Set Hours: 0, Minutes: 30 (for 30-minute appointments)
OR toggle "All day event" ON for full-day bookings
Block Off Time:
Before Appointment: Set buffer time before each booking (Hours: 0, Minutes: 0)
After Appointment: Set buffer time after each booking (Hours: 0, Minutes: 0)
Payment Options: Select "Payment is required" from the dropdown
Step 5: Save 🥳
Click save.
After you publish the scheduling widget, Slot App's menu will appear on the left side. Here, you can manage and customize the scheduling widget:
Note: Make you have enabled the app in the theme.
To switch on the app:
Click "Go to theme"
Find "Appointment scheduler" in the left sidebar
Toggle the switch to ON (turns green)
Click "Save" in the theme editor
