Mobile mode

Booking that knows where you're driving

Built for mobile beauticians, barbers, cleaners, PTs, and tattoo artists. Per-day travel areas, travel-time-aware availability, and a daily route map — included in the Rexabook base.

Mobile mode is included in every Rexabook subscription — free during the 30-day trial, included in the £15/month base after.

The problem

Three postcodes, no warning

Most booking systems were built for fixed-location salons. Mobile work breaks them in quiet, expensive ways.

Sarah's a mobile beautician. Wednesday she's in CW10 — Crewe. She sets a 30-minute buffer between bookings and trusts the system to handle the rest.

A client books her for 12:00 in Crewe. The next one books 11:30 in Northwich — fifteen miles and twenty-five minutes away. Both bookings confirm. Both look fine on the diary.

Sarah finds out when she's running between them. The 12:00 client waits twenty minutes; she's flustered for the rest of the day. Booksy and Fresha can't catch this — they have staff calendars, not journey-aware availability.

Travel Areas

Per-day coverage, not a one-size radius

Define where you'll travel by day of the week — postcode prefixes (CW10, CW11) or a radius from a centre point. Tuesdays in one area, Saturdays in another. Customers outside your areas join a waitlist instead of booking — you see the demand on your dashboard.

  • Postcode-prefix or radius — pick whichever you think in
  • Per-day assignment (Mon CW10, Sat SK11, etc.)
  • Default travel area for days you haven't set specifically
  • Out-of-zone waitlist tells you where to expand next
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Travel Areas

Crewe & Nantwich

CW10, CW11, CW5

Wed

Macclesfield

10 mi radius from SK10

Sat

Waitlist requests

3 new in CH3 this week

Smart Scheduling

The safety net for impossible journeys

Buffer time handles most days. When the actual journey clearly exceeds your buffer — Crewe to Northwich in 30 minutes — Smart Scheduling hides the slot from the customer entirely. Not greyed out, not warned about. Gone. The next viable time becomes the earliest option, so the booking still lands.

  • Fires only when travel time > 1.5 × your buffer — borderline cases still show
  • Customer-facing: hides impossible slots, no jargon
  • Owner override: you can force a tight booking from your dashboard
  • First-of-day journeys are measured from your Home Base postcode
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Wednesday — pick a time
9:00
9:30
10:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00

Sarah's route today affects availability. These are the slots that fit.

Smart Scheduling

Clustered slots come first

On days that already have at least one booking, the time picker quietly pulls nearby slots to the top. Customers see the same total options — they're just ordered helpfully. Your day naturally builds into a tight cluster without anyone thinking about it.

  • Fires on every booking page load — not just edge cases
  • A small ✦ Efficient pill marks the clustered slots
  • Slots further away still show, just lower down
  • See the percentage of clustered bookings on your dashboard
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Cluster preference
11:00 ✦ Efficient
11:30 ✦ Efficient
14:00 Available
15:30 Available

68% of bookings clustered this month

Smart Scheduling

Your day, plotted before you start it

Today's bookings on a map with route order and estimated travel times. Numbered pins, connecting lines, leg-by-leg distance and time. The visible, marketable thing — the screenshot that goes on Instagram when you finally feel in control of your day.

  • Numbered pins in chronological order, Home Base to Home Base
  • Estimated drive time per leg, total miles for the day
  • Tap a pin to see the booking — client, service, address, time
  • Works whether your customers gave a postcode or a full address
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Today's route Wed 21 May · 4 stops
Home → 1 · 09:00 Skin fade 12 min · 4.2 mi
1 → 2 · 10:30 Cut & blow-dry 8 min · 2.7 mi
2 → 3 · 12:00 Gel manicure 6 min · 2.1 mi

Everything Mobile mode unlocks

One purchasable thing. Tick it once — these six features light up together.

Home Base

Your starting postcode each day. The origin for travel-time calculations and the centre of your route map.

Travel Areas

Per-day geographic zones. Postcode prefixes or radius from a centre. Customers outside your zone join a waitlist.

Travel settings

Transport mode (driving / cycling / walking / public transport), buffer time, road factor. Tunes the maths to your reality.

Travel-time safety net

Hides slots when the journey can't fit. Only fires on clearly impossible cases — borderline ones still show.

Cluster preference

Slots near existing bookings appear first in the time picker. The quiet, everyday win — fires on every booking page load.

Daily route view

Today's bookings on a map with route order and per-leg drive times. The view people screenshot for Instagram.

Mobile-aware scheduling — only on Rexabook

Booksy and Fresha have staff calendars. Neither models journeys between same-day bookings. If you travel for work, the difference shows up the first week.

Feature Rexabook Booksy Fresha
Per-day travel areas
Travel-time-aware availability
Cluster-preference slot ordering
Daily route map

Comparison covers mobile-worker functionality only — for the full feature matrix, see our comparison page.

Included in the base

£15/month

Mobile mode is part of the £15/month base — no separate add-on, no extra charge.

Home Base, Travel Areas, travel-time-aware availability, cluster sorting, and the daily route map — all included for every Rexabook trader. Free for the 30-day trial.

See the base + all four add-ons on the pricing page.

Mobile FAQ

Do I need to do anything special if I sometimes travel?
If you're hybrid — fixed location plus occasional home visits — Mobile mode is still worth turning on. Travel Areas let you set per-day coverage (Saturdays in the studio, Tuesdays mobile), and Smart Scheduling keeps your travel days clustered. Enable it from Settings — it's part of the base, no extra cost.
How is Smart Scheduling different from buffer time?
Buffer time is location-blind — the same 30-minute gap whether the next client is next door or 10 miles away. That works for most days. Smart Scheduling adds three things on top: a safety-net rule that hides slots when the actual journey clearly exceeds your buffer, a cluster sort that pulls nearby slots to the top of the time picker, and a daily route view that maps your bookings in driving order. The safety net only fires when buffer time would obviously fail — borderline cases still show.
What if a customer is outside my travel area?
They see a soft message — "Sorry, we don't cover that area" — with a one-tap waitlist signup. You see those waitlist requests on your dashboard, so when you decide to expand, you already know where the demand is.
Can I override the system for an awkward booking?
Yes. The safety net only applies to customer-facing slots. When you add a booking from your dashboard, you can confirm a tight travel window with one click — the system warns you but doesn't block. You're an adult; you know your area.
What does the daily route view show?
Today's bookings plotted on a map with route order and estimated travel times. Tap a pin to see the booking. Numbered pins, lines connecting them in chronological order, distance and time per leg. The view people screenshot for marketing.
Is Mobile mode an extra charge?
No — Mobile mode is included in the base £15/month platform. Home Base, Travel Areas, travel-time-aware availability, cluster sorting, and the daily route map all come with every Rexabook subscription. Toggle Mobile mode on from Settings whenever you want to use it.

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