Embeddable Scheduling Software for Web Designers
A booking page that sits on your portfolio and looks like it belongs there, for discovery calls, kickoffs and design reviews.
Updated 22 October 2026
Why do web projects stall between design rounds?
A web project moves at the speed of client feedback. You send a homepage concept on Monday, and the review call that should happen on Tuesday turns into Thursday after three emails about times. Across a few clients in different time zones, that waiting adds weeks to a schedule. Tymeslot puts a booking link next to every piece of work you send, shows clients your slots in their own time zone, and leaves you to design.
What a web designer needs from a booking page
A booking widget on a designer's portfolio is part of the portfolio. If it looks like someone else's product, it lets the site down. Projects also run in stages that a single meeting type cannot represent: a free discovery call, a kickoff once the proposal is signed, a review for each round of designs, a handover at the end.
Tymeslot lets you style the booking page with your own colours and background, choose from four themes, and place it on the page inline, open it from a button as a popup, or keep a floating button in the corner of every page. Each project stage gets its own meeting type. Review and handover types can stay unlisted, reaching only clients with an active project. And when the kickoff is the moment a project becomes real, Pro charges the agreed deposit to the client's card at the moment of booking, paid into your Stripe account.
Everything web designers need. Nothing they don't.
An Embed That Sizes Itself
The inline embed resizes its frame to the content as the visitor moves from calendar to form, so there is no inner scrollbar to fight in your layout. A WordPress plugin covers the sites you build on WordPress.
Styled to Match Your Brand
Pick one of four themes, generate a colour palette from your brand colour, and set your own background image or video.
A Meeting Type per Project Stage
Discovery call, kickoff, design review, handover: one type per stage, each with its own duration, link and question set, and the later stages unlisted.
Kickoff Deposits
Set the kickoff's price to the deposit in your proposal. The client pays it into your Stripe account while choosing the date, and the project starts with money already received rather than an invoice to chase.
Only Your Domains Can Embed It
List the domains allowed to embed your booking page, so a copied snippet will not work on someone else's site, and a staging copy of a client site can be kept out the same way.
The Client's Team on the Call
Allow guests on a meeting type so the client can add their marketing lead or developer when they book a review or handover, and every guest gets the confirmation.
See the difference
Without Tymeslot
With Tymeslot
Common scheduling scenarios
How do web designers turn portfolio visitors into discovery calls?
Someone has just looked through your case studies and wants to talk. The fewer steps between that moment and a date in the diary, the more of those people you speak to.
- Make a half-hour "Discovery call" bookable from a day ahead and embed it inline at the foot of each case study, not only on the contact page.
- Generate the booking page's palette from your brand colour and reuse your hero image as its background, so it reads as part of your portfolio.
- Ask for the client's current website as a URL question (Pro, or any self-hosted install) and run it through PageSpeed or a quick audit before the call.
- Add a reminder an hour before, since a prospect who booked from a portfolio on a whim is the one most likely to forget.
How do web designers keep design review rounds short?
Feedback given live in a call is usually clearer and faster than a thread of annotated screenshots. The trick is getting the call booked the day the designs go out.
- Make the 45-minute "Design review" type private, with 24 hours' notice.
- Put the review link in the same email as each round of Figma frames or the staging URL, so the client books when they open the work.
- Allow guests, so the client's marketing lead or developer can join the call.
- Send a reminder the day before asking the client to click through the staging site first.
How do web designers make the kickoff the moment a project starts?
A signed proposal is not a started project until the deposit is in. Taking the deposit when the client books the kickoff call removes the gap between the two.
- Create a 60-minute "Project kickoff" meeting type and send its link with the signed proposal.
- On Pro, connect Stripe and enter the deposit as the kickoff's price; the date is held for the client only once their card is charged.
- Link your content and asset checklist (a shared document or form) in the meeting type's description: logins, brand files, page copy.
- Cancelling from your dashboard offers to refund the deposit at the same time, should the start date fall through on your side.
See Tymeslot in action
A starter setup for web designers
| Meeting type | Duration | Buffer | Minimum notice | Bookable ahead | Payment at booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery call | 30 min | 10 min | 1 day | 3 weeks | None |
| Project kickoff | 60 min | 15 min | 2 days | 30 days | €500 deposit at booking |
| Design review (private) | 45 min | 15 min | 1 day | 2 weeks | None |
Intake questions
- Your current website, if you have one
- What does your business do?
- What should the new site help you do?
- When would you like it to launch?
Set the kickoff price to the deposit your proposal names, so the client pays exactly what they agreed. Never ask for hosting or CMS logins here; those belong in the kickoff checklist. The kickoff's 48 hours' notice and the review's two-week horizon sit on separate availability schedules.
Tymeslot compared with Cal.com and HoneyBook
For a web designer, Tymeslot, Cal.com and HoneyBook differ in how a project begins: whether the kickoff is paid for at booking, what you can learn about the client's current site beforehand, and whether the scheduler could run on the servers that already host your client work. All three take payments and ask questions, but Cal.com does both on its free plan, where Tymeslot needs Pro. Tymeslot writes no proposals, contracts or invoices either, so a studio wanting those beside the calendar will be better served by an all-in-one tool.
| Feature | Tymeslot | Cal.com | HoneyBook |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deposit or payment at booking | Pro: the €500 kickoff deposit, through your Stripe | Yes, on the free plan: Stripe or PayPal | Yes: scheduler can require payment to lock the slot |
| Open source | AGPLv3; host it beside your client sites | Cal.com is closed source; Cal.diy is open source | No: hosted service only |
| Custom intake questions | Pro: their current URL and launch date | Yes: customisable booking questions | Yes: questions block before the scheduler |
Sources checked 5 October 2026.
How much time could you save?
A rough estimate, not a promise.
120
minutes saved per week
104.0
hours saved per year
€10,400
annual value of saved time
Which calendars and tools do web designers use with Tymeslot?
Start free, upgrade when you're ready
A freelancer who books discovery calls and invoices deposits by hand can stay on Free, with every embed style and every theme in the brand's colours. Charging the €500 kickoff deposit at booking and asking for the client's current URL need Pro (€9/month). If you already manage servers for client sites, self-hosting gives you both at no cost.
Free
€0 / month
Pro
€9 / month