A massage therapist website that makes booking as easy as the massage.

A solo practice runs on the calendar

When you are the only therapist, every text that comes in while you are with a client is a missed booking or a rushed reply. The website's real work is to take bookings while your hands are busy. Show the session lengths and prices, show real open times, and send an automatic confirmation and a reminder email, which cuts the "sorry, I forgot" cancellations.

What clients want to know first

• Do you specialize in sports, prenatal, deep tissue or relaxation work?
• Where is the studio, is there parking, and is it accessible?
• What do I wear, and what happens during the session?
• Can I talk to you before booking about an injury?
• What is the cancellation policy?

Put your training and license on the About page, with your state license number if your state requires it to be shown. Clients need to know a real, licensed person will be treating them.

Intake, with limits

A short form before the first visit saves ten minutes of the session. Ask for the best phone number, what brings them in, areas to focus on or avoid, and anything you should know such as pregnancy. Treat the form as a note to yourself, not a medical chart. Detailed health history belongs on your own paperwork in your own records.

What clients check before booking a massage with someone new

Booking a massage means being alone in a room with a stranger, so trust comes before price. New clients look for:

• A real name, a real photo and a state license number they can look up
• Clear words about draping and what clothing stays on
• Whether you work with their kind of problem: a desk neck, a runner's calves, pregnancy
• How firm "deep tissue" really is, and whether they can ask for lighter
• Where the room is: a home studio, a shared suite or a mobile visit

A plain, professional About page settles most of this before the first message, and it keeps away the bookings you'd rather not get.

The few apps a massage practice needs

Appointments does most of the work. Make 60- and 90-minute sessions separate services, add buffer time after each to change the linens and wash up, and block your breaks and days off so you never book five deep-tissue sessions back to back. Approve-each mode lets you screen first-time clients before the time is held. The notes field asks what they want worked on, and clients get a reminder email before the visit.

The AI Agent answers parking, what to wear and the cancellation rule from your pages while you're with a client, and takes a name and email for anything else. Set it up so health questions come to you. The Announcement bar marks a week of vacation. Contacts holds your regulars with notes like "prefers lighter pressure," and the going-quiet filter shows who hasn't booked in a while. A Photo gallery is optional; a few room photos on the About page are usually enough.

A walk through the Kneadful Things Massage example

Kneadful Things Massage is the made-up practice in the preview, with the line "Deep tissue and sports massage that actually helps" and a Book a massage button. Treatments lists each session by length and type, what it helps with and the price. About me has a portrait, training, the state license number and how sessions are draped. Book opens the calendar with only the times that are really free.

Build yours by chatting with Chip about your sessions and hours, or send 5 to 15 phone photos of your room and approve the draft. It lives at kneadfulthingsmassage.dollarsite.page until you connect a domain you own.

When a booking app or a spa already sends you clients

Many therapists start on a booking app or rent a room inside a spa or gym. Keep what works. If the app takes a cut of each first visit, your own site is where regulars book directly, without the fee, once you've earned their trust. Read the app's rules first, and if you work under a spa, check your agreement about seeing clients on your own. If you like the booking tool you pay for, Chip can add a Book button that opens it, and you can leave Appointments off.

Packages, memberships and the schedule you can keep

A monthly slot for regulars is the steadiest income a solo therapist can build. Offer a package of three or five sessions, or a standing appointment, and say how it is booked. Be honest about your hours: block your own break, your day off and a gap between clients, so the calendar never promises more than you can give. Say how far ahead you book, and whether you keep a short list for last-minute cancellations. Clients return to a therapist who is easy to get on the schedule, and who is rested enough to do good work at the end of the day.