How to add Picktime to your website
Picktime is a free-tier scheduling tool for appointments, classes and equipment rental, used by small clinics, tutors, studios and businesses on a tight budget. Here's how to put it on your own website, which embed option to pick, and what goes wrong.
Quick answer
Get the code from your Picktime account under Settings, in the Booking Page or Integrations section. For most people the right choice is the booking page link — your picktime.com URL behind a button. Paste it into a code or embed block on your site — not a plain text field — then place it beside your main call to action and test the whole flow on a phone before relying on it.
Picktime: which option to use
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Booking page link | Your picktime.com URL behind a button. |
| Iframe embed | The booking flow inside your own page. |
| Book Now button code | A pre-styled button that opens booking in an overlay. |
Step-by-step
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Find the code or link in your account
Picktime keeps this in your Picktime account under Settings, in the Booking Page or Integrations section. Copy what you need before touching your website — most of the time people lose is spent hunting for the snippet, not installing it.
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Pick the right option for the job
The table above is the decision. Booking page link: Your picktime.com URL behind a button. Iframe embed: The booking flow inside your own page. Choosing before you paste saves rebuilding the section later.
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Paste it into a code or embed block
This needs an HTML, code or embed block — not a plain text field, where the code will simply appear as text on your page. On Adviita, ask the AI editor to add an embed section and drop the code in. On WordPress use a Custom HTML block, on Squarespace a Code block (Business plan or above), and on Wix an Embed HTML element.
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Put it where the decision happens
Booking is the action your site exists to produce, so this belongs above the fold, not below your gallery. A widget three scrolls down does a fraction of the work of the same widget beside your main call to action. Decide what the page is for, then place it at the point the visitor is deciding.
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Check it on an actual phone
Most visitors to a small business website arrive on a phone, and embeds are where mobile layouts break. Open your live site on your own phone and confirm it loads, fits the screen without sideways scrolling, and does not push your contact button out of view. Third-party embeds are also the most common cause of a slow page, so if it noticeably delays loading, consider a plain link instead.
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Test it end to end before you rely on it
Run through the whole flow yourself as a customer would — complete a real booking — and confirm what should happen actually happens. Broken embeds fail silently, and the first person to notice is usually a customer who has already given up.
Tips & best practices
- ▸The free tier is genuinely usable but branded; check what your customers will see before building a page around it.
- ▸Picktime covers appointments, classes and rentals with different flows — pick the right one when you create the service, because switching later means recreating it.
- ▸Confirm the time zone on both the account and the individual service; mismatches here produce bookings at the wrong hour.
- ▸Re-test the embed after any change to your site, your plan, or the connected account — third-party widgets break quietly and nothing tells you.
Common questions
Is Picktime really free?
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It has a genuinely usable free tier covering unlimited bookings for a limited number of staff, with Picktime branding on the booking page. Paid tiers remove branding and add staff. For a solo practitioner it is one of the few scheduling tools that is workable without paying anything.
How do I add Picktime to my website?
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In Picktime, open Settings and find the booking page or integrations area. Copy either the booking page URL or the iframe embed code, then add it to your site as a button link or a code block respectively.
Do I need a developer to add Picktime to my site?
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No. Every option here is copy and paste into a code or embed block, which every mainstream website builder provides. The only genuine blocker is a builder or plan that does not allow custom code at all — Squarespace, for instance, requires a Business plan or above for code blocks.
Will adding Picktime slow down my website?
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Any third-party embed has some cost, because it loads code from another company's servers. One is usually unnoticeable; four or five on the same page is where small business sites become visibly slow. If page speed matters to you, prefer a plain link over a script wherever the option exists, and keep embeds to the pages that genuinely need them.