Scheduling software built for plumbers
Book emergency leaks, drain clears, and water-heater jobs around your truck — Slotly turns "I'll call you back" into a confirmed arrival window while your hands are full of pipe wrench. Slotly gives plumbers a single booking link, automated reminders, and no-show protection — so your plumbing business stays booked without the phone tag. When you're soldering a joint or pulling a toilet, every ringing call is a job you can't answer and a homeowner who's already dialing the next plumber. Slotly gives customers a booking link that captures the job, the address, and a deposit while your hands are full, so leads stop leaking to competitors.
What scheduling chaos costs plumbers.
Calls go to voicemail under the sink
When you're soldering a joint or pulling a toilet, every ringing call is a job you can't answer and a homeowner who's already dialing the next plumber. Slotly gives customers a booking link that captures the job, the address, and a deposit while your hands are full, so leads stop leaking to competitors.
Drive-time chaos and back-to-back bookings
Stacking a water-heater swap right after a sewer-line job across town means you show up late, frazzled, and behind all day. Slotly's buffer times and per-job-type durations build in travel and teardown so your day routes itself instead of collapsing by 2pm.
No-shows and ghosted estimates burn a half-day
You block two hours for an estimate or repair, drive out, and nobody answers the door — that's gas, time, and a slot another customer wanted. Slotly sends SMS reminders the morning of and holds a card on file, so flaky appointments get confirmed or canceled before you load the van.
Everything a plumbing business needs to stay booked.
Job-type slots with built-in drive time
Set real durations for a faucet swap, drain snake, or water-heater install, and add buffer for travel and cleanup so back-to-back jobs never overlap. Customers only see windows you can actually make on time.
Deposits before you load the van
Collect a service-call fee or parts deposit through Stripe at booking, so estimates and after-hours calls aren't free dispatch runs. Funds are confirmed before you ever turn the key.
SMS reminders that kill no-shows
Automated texts confirm the arrival window and let homeowners reschedule before you're already in the truck. Fewer locked doors, fewer wasted half-days.
Round-robin dispatch across your crew
Route new bookings to whichever licensed plumber is open, or assign drain jobs to your apprentice and re-pipes to your journeyman. Each tech's calendar stays synced so two trucks never get sent to one address.
How plumbers use Slotly.
- A homeowner with a burst supply line books the next available emergency window at 11pm, pays the after-hours service fee through Stripe, and the on-call plumber gets the address texted instantly.
- A plumbing business sets 90-minute slots for water-heater replacements with a 30-minute drive buffer, so the tech never double-books a tankless install behind a cross-town repair.
- A property manager schedules five unit drain-clears in one building, and Slotly round-robins them across two trucks while syncing each job to the techs' Google Calendars.
Plumbers scheduling: your questions answered
Can customers still book emergency or after-hours calls online?
Yes — you can create a separate "emergency" or after-hours service type with its own hours, pricing, and a required service-call deposit. Routine jobs follow your normal 8-to-5 availability while urgent leaks get their own bookable window, so you control which calls reach you at midnight and which wait for morning.
How does Slotly handle deposits for parts or service-call fees?
Slotly connects to your Stripe account and can require a deposit or full service-call fee the moment a customer books. You decide the amount per job type — a flat dispatch fee for estimates, a parts deposit for a water-heater install — and the charge is confirmed before the appointment is locked in.
Will the booking link work with the calendar my techs already use?
It syncs two-way with Google Calendar and Outlook, so a job booked online instantly appears on each tech's phone, and anything they block off (a lunch, a supply-house run) closes that slot for customers. There's no separate app to check — your existing calendar stays the single source of truth for the whole crew.
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Get your plumbing business booked solid
Start free in five minutes. Book emergency leaks, drain clears, and water-heater jobs around your truck — Slotly turns "I'll call you back" into a confirmed arrival window while your hands are full of pipe wrench.