Getting found in Slot'd search
Clients who don’t already know you can find you at slotd.app/find — they pick what they need (coaching, tutoring, personal care, home & property, or something else), enter a city or use their location, choose a distance from 5 to 50 miles, and tap through to your booking page. It’s included on every plan, including Free.
Each result shows your business name, your trade, your city, a few of your services, your price range, and roughly how far away you are.
You need a city
Settings → Booking → Discovery → City. This is the one thing that decides whether you appear at all. Onboarding asks for it, but it’s worth checking if your account is older.
Without a city, Slot’d has no idea where to place you, so you are not listed — even if everything else about your account is perfect and the discovery toggle is on. There is no partial state: no city, no listing.
Use the full form, like “Floresville, TX”. If Slot’d can’t find the place you typed, the Discovery section tells you so — fix the spelling or add the state, and saving tries again right away.
Your exact address is never shown
You can add an optional street address to sharpen the match. It is never published. Slot’d uses your location for distance searches and shows only a coarse area — about a 1.5-mile radius. Clients see roughly where you are and roughly how far away you are — never your street address, unless you deliberately put one on your booking page.
That applies to people working from home too. Being findable does not mean publishing where you live.
Turning it off
Settings → Booking → “List my business in area search.” Off means you keep your booking page and your link, and simply don’t appear in search. Some providers only want clients they’ve already met — that’s a normal way to use Slot’d.
What decides your position
Results are grouped by how active you are, then ordered by distance within each group. Not by how much you pay.
| Level | What it means |
|---|---|
| 3 | You have open Slots and you’ve taken a booking in the last 30 days |
| 2 | You have open Slots coming up |
| 1 | You’ve been active in the last 90 days (a booking or an update to your account), but have no open Slots |
| 0 | Dormant |
Being on a paid plan (including a free trial) adds one level — it’s a nudge, not a takeover. An active Free provider still outranks a dormant paid one, on purpose: a directory full of people who never answer is worthless to the clients using it.
Reaching the top level needs a real booking, not just published Slots. Otherwise top placement could be bought by scheduling empty openings on a loop.
Activity levels are recalculated once a day, so a change can take up to a day to show.
Practical ways to move up
- Keep open Slots published. This is the single biggest factor — it’s the difference between level 1 and level 2. Only Slots count here, not your regular weekly availability.
- Get your first booking through. It’s the step from level 2 to level 3.
- Fill in your business name and your services, so your result reads like a business rather than a blank. Your service names are also what shows under your name.
If you’re not showing up
Work down this list:
- Is your city set, and did Slot’d find it? Settings → Booking → Discovery. This is the usual answer.
- Is “List my business in area search” on? Same section.
- Is your booking page published? “Booking page is published (visible to clients)”, same tab. An unpublished page isn’t listed.
- Is the client searching the right category? Results are filtered by what they pick in “What do you need?” — unless they choose “Anything”.
- Are they searching far enough out? Try a wider distance — results only include pros within the distance chosen.
- Do you have open Slots? With nothing bookable you rank below everyone who does.
When a search finds nobody
If a client searches somewhere with no Slot’d pros yet, they’re told so honestly and can recommend a local business they’d like to see on Slot’d. Slot’d never pads results with businesses that aren’t here.
Still stuck? Get in touch.