Suddenly Sorted gives you an AI booking assistant (we call her Sally) that answers customers and takes bookings around the clock. The fastest way in: start from your Google listing and we build your services, hours and a free bookable website for you, so you're reviewing rather than typing. Here's the quickest path to going live.
The four steps
Sign up
Create your free account at app.suddenly.co.nz/signup. No credit card needed to start. You'll land in your dashboard.
Start from your Google listing
Type your business name and suburb (or paste your Google link) and we do the heavy lifting: we pull your name, hours, address, photos and reviews from Google and build your setup for you, plus a real, bookable free website from it, in minutes. No typing it all in, no design work.
No Google listing? No problem. You can enter your services, prices, team and hours by hand in Business setup instead. This is the only information Sally speaks from, so accuracy matters either way.
Pick your business type while you're in Settings — hair, barber, beauty, wellness or clinic. It flavours the copy across your dashboard, emails and assistant so everything speaks your trade's language ("most booked cut" for a barber, not generic "appointments").
Review, then put Sally on your site
Check what we built, tweak your services, prices and policies (deposits, cancellations), and connect Google Calendar for two-way sync (optional but recommended). Then share your free website, copy your Embed widget snippet for your own site, or use your hosted booking page.
Go live
Use Try your assistant in the dashboard to test a few questions, then publish. Your customers can now book any time, day or night. The dashboard's onboarding checklist keeps track of what's done and what's left, so you can come back and finish setup any time.
What you'll need
- Your Google Business listing (recommended): your name and suburb, so we can build your services, hours and a free website for you.
- Your services and prices: the list customers can book. We pull what we can from Google, and you can add the rest by hand.
- Your opening hours: so Sally only offers slots you actually work.
- A Google account (optional): to sync bookings two ways with Google Calendar.
- Access to your website (optional): to paste the embed snippet. No website? Use your free website or hosted booking page.
What to set up next
Once you're live, turn on the features that win and keep bookings:
- Deposits & pay-to-hold: ask for a small refundable deposit on your higher-value services to cut no-shows. Connect Stripe and the money goes straight to you, no commission. Prefer no payment? Use confirm-to-hold, a no-payment hold that books the slot and auto-releases it if the customer doesn't confirm in time.
- Reminders & confirmations: automatic text and email reminders so fewer customers forget their appointment.
- Google review requests: a gentle nudge after a visit that sends happy customers to your Google listing.
- Rebooking nudges: Sally finds regulars due for their next visit and offers them their usual, so they come back.
- Waitlist auto-fill: when a slot frees up, Sally offers it to waiting customers so the gap turns back into a booking.
- After-hours capture: Sally answers and books 24/7, so you win the bookings that come in while you're closed.
- Your free website: a real, bookable one-page site built from your Google listing, included in every plan.