Create a test booking

A test booking adds a pending booking to your account from a customer called TradeBooked Test, for tomorrow at 9am on one of your services. It shows you your side of a new request: where it lands in your bookings list, where it sits on your calendar, and what you do next.

It does not send any emails or texts, to you or to anyone else. To see what your customers get, book yourself through your own booking page (see below).

1. Open your dashboard and find the onboarding checklist.
2. Scroll to Phase 2: "Now turn views into bookings".
3. Find the step "Test your own booking" and tap Create test booking.
4. TradeBooked creates the booking and opens it on your bookings page in a new tab.

Until your first real booking arrives, there is also a "Test your setup" card on your dashboard with its own Create test booking button.

Once it is open, run through:

• Does it show in your bookings list as pending?
• Does it sit on your calendar on the right day and at the right time?
• Is it clear how you would confirm or decline it?

To see the emails for yourself, book the way a customer would:

1. Clear your test booking first: tap Clear on the "Test your setup" card on your dashboard. That card goes once a real booking is on your account, and a booking made through your own page counts as real.
2. Open your booking page (the link you share with customers) and book a slot using your own name and an email address you can check.
3. Check that inbox for the email saying the request has been received, and your business inbox for the new booking alert.
4. Confirm the booking from your dashboard, then check for the confirmation email.
5. When you are done, cancel it. TradeBooked emails you about that too.

If you take deposits, you will see the deposit page after booking. It takes a real card payment, and the booking emails only go out once the deposit is paid.