# Scheduling Software for Coaches > Let a client book a discovery call from the link in your bio, pay for a session or a pack on the same page, and land in your CRM with their course access ready. Vonza Scheduling is the booking page, the payment, the reminders and the follow-up, inside the platform your coaching business runs on. ## A coach’s week in bookings An example week on a Vonza booking page, so you can see where each booking comes from and what happens after it. The figures are illustrative. - **Monday**: Two free 20-minute discovery calls, both booked from the Instagram bio link over the weekend. A paid 60-minute session; the card was charged when the client booked. - **Tuesday**: A group coaching call with 12 of 15 seats taken; the page shows the seats left. A client books session three of her six-session pack with the pack code. - **Wednesday**: No bookings offered: a day of time off, set in one click. - **Thursday**: A discovery call becomes a client: she books the 60-minute length and the automation enrols her in the onboarding course. A weekly accountability check-in, the fourth of a six-week series booked in one go. - **Friday**: A reminder goes out the day before every Monday session, at the hour you set. A client reschedules from the link in his email, inside the deadline you set. Every booking above lands in the same place: the contact’s record in your Vonza CRM, with the answers they gave, the payment, and the course they were enrolled in. ## From discovery call to paying client The coaching workflow, as it runs on Vonza: one booking page, four moments. 1. **Put the discovery call in your bio**: Publish a free 20-minute discovery call and add it to your Link in bio page as a button, or share the link and QR code. The booking page asks the questions you choose, up to 30 of them, so you know what the client wants before you meet. 2. **Sell the session or the pack**: Price each length of the same meeting: the free call, a paid 60-minute session, a pack of six sessions booked later with a code. Clients pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna or PayPal at booking; a naira platform takes Paystack. 3. **Follow up without typing**: Confirmation, reminder and follow-up emails are on from the start. An automation that fires on New booking can enrol the client in your course, tag the contact, add them to a list, send a webhook or email you. 4. **Keep the relationship on one record**: Every booker becomes a contact. Their bookings, payments, course progress and emails sit on one record, and you can mark a no-show, add a private note or reassign a session to another coach on your team. [Paid appointments](https://vonza.com/paid-appointments) [Link in bio](https://vonza.com/link-in-bio) [Vonza automations](https://vonza.com/automations) [The Vonza CRM](https://vonza.com/crm) ## Built for the way coaches book Six things a coaching practice needs from its scheduler, and how the new Vonza Scheduling does each one. - **Discovery calls that qualify**: Ask up to 30 questions before the call: short and long answers, choices, a phone number, a date, even a file upload or a signature. - **Session packs and deposits**: Sell six sessions at once and let the client book the rest with a pack code. Take a deposit with the balance charged before the session, on eligible plans. - **Group coaching with seats**: Set the spots per time, from 2 to 1,000, and show how many are left. One email can only take one seat. - **A weekly slot, booked once**: Clients can repeat the time they pick weekly, every two weeks or monthly, 2 to 12 times, on free lengths. Every time is checked first. - **Reminders that cut no-shows**: Email reminders by minutes, hours or days before, or at a set time the day before. Text reminders come out of your SMS marketing allowance. - **Your calendar stays yours**: Busy times in Google Calendar or Outlook are never offered. Add buffers, a daily cap, minimum notice and time off for a holiday. ## Coaching templates to start from The new Scheduling ships 137 ready-made booking pages in 15 categories. Each one is a finished page with its lengths, hours, questions and photo, and everything stays editable. - **Coaching (9 templates)**: Discovery calls, one-to-one sessions, packs and group calls shaped for life, business and career coaches. - **Fitness (8 templates)**: Personal training sessions, assessments and small-group classes with a seat count. - **Health (9 templates)**: Consultations, follow-ups and check-ins with intake questions asked before the appointment. Or describe the meeting in one line and let Vonza AI draft the page; nothing is public until you publish. Vonza AI uses AI credits. [Browse the scheduling templates](https://vonza.com/scheduling-templates) [Everything Vonza Scheduling does](https://vonza.com/appointment-scheduling) ## Works with the tools you already use Connect your own calendar and meeting app; the platform owner connects the payment gateways once. ### Calendars - **Google Calendar**: Busy times are never offered; new bookings are added to your calendar. - **Outlook and Microsoft 365**: Check for conflicts and Add bookings, per calendar. - **Apple iCloud Calendar**: Busy times from your iCloud calendars, read only. ### Where you meet - **Zoom**: A Zoom meeting per booking, moved or deleted with it. - **Google Meet and Microsoft Teams**: Every booking gets its own joining link. - **Vonza Stream, phone or in person**: A Vonza Stream room, a phone call, an address, or let the invitee choose. ### Payments - **Stripe**: Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna on a priced length. - **PayPal**: For a price paid once at booking. - **Paystack**: For platforms that charge in Nigerian naira. ## Booking, course and community in one account A standalone scheduler hands the client back to you the moment the call ends. On Vonza, the booking is the first step of a relationship the rest of the platform carries on. - Enrol a new client in your course or programme the moment they book, with one automation step. - Invite them into your coaching community, where the group call and the discussion live together. - Collect an intake form, a contract signature or a progress check-in with Vonza Forms, and send respondents to the booking page from the form. - Run a meeting poll when a group needs to agree a time, and let a team of coaches share bookings round robin. - See bookings, payments, no-shows and your busiest hours in Scheduling analytics. [Online courses](https://vonza.com/free-online-courses-platform) [Community for coaches](https://vonza.com/community-platform-for-coaches) [Vonza Forms](https://vonza.com/forms) [Meeting polls](https://vonza.com/meeting-polls) [Team scheduling](https://vonza.com/team-scheduling) [Recurring appointments](https://vonza.com/recurring-appointments) [Appointment reminders](https://vonza.com/appointment-reminders) [Pricing](https://vonza.com/pricing) The new Scheduling is opt-in: open the Scheduling row marked New in your admin sidebar, then switch on New booking pages in Booking settings so your /book links show the new pages. Scheduling is included in every Vonza plan, with a 14-day free trial. ## Questions coaches ask about scheduling ### Can clients book a free discovery call and a paid session on the same page? Yes. One meeting can offer up to 12 lengths, from 5 minutes to 24 hours, and each length has its own price. A 20-minute discovery call can be free while the 60-minute session is paid, on the same booking page. Paid lengths skip approval because the payment confirms them. ### How do session packs work for coaching clients? Price a length as a Pack, set the number of sessions and an optional use-by period. The booking that buys the pack is session one; the client books the rest with their pack code and the same email. A cancelled pack booking gives the credit back. ### Can I run group coaching calls? Yes. Set Spots per time to more than one, up to 1,000, to make a group session, and switch on Show spots left so the page shows the seats remaining. The same email cannot take two seats at one time. ### Can a client book the same slot every week? Yes, with Book a series. The client picks a time and repeats it weekly, every two weeks or monthly, 2 to 12 times. Every time is checked against your calendar first and each one is its own booking. Series work on free lengths; a paid length is booked one time at a time. ### How does Vonza remind clients about their session? A confirmation, a reminder and a follow-up email are set up for every meeting. Add more reminders by minutes, hours or days before, or at a set time the day before, with a copy to you. Text reminders go out while Text reminders is on in Booking settings and come out of your SMS marketing allowance. ### Is scheduling included in my Vonza plan? Scheduling is included in every Vonza plan, with a 14-day free trial. The new Scheduling is opt-in: open the Scheduling row marked New in your admin sidebar and switch on New booking pages in Booking settings so your /book links show the new pages. A few price kinds, such as deposits, depend on your plan; see the pricing page.