How it works
From a missed call to a booking you can check
Every request runs through four steps: understand it, check the real calendar, write the booking and read it back. The caller hears “confirmed” once your calendar shows the booking. Anything uncertain goes to a named person with a deadline. It’s almost here, and design partners get in early.
- Request understoodTime, service and details captured
- Calendar checkedThe real calendar, not a guess
- One booking writtenA single bounded attempt
- Read backCompared with the request
When the calendar shows it.
A named person, with a deadline.
Four steps, no guessing
Understand the request
Capture the requested time, the service and the details needed to act, under the business’s own rules.
Check the calendar
Look at the real destination calendar before promising anything. A suggested slot is not a reservation.
Write one booking
One bounded attempt with a stable key, so a repeated request finds the original result instead of booking twice.
Read it back
Ask the calendar what it now holds and compare it with the request. That comparison alone decides the outcome.
One outcome, four views
The same request as the caller, the calendar, the receipt and the owner would see it.
What the caller heard
“I’ve asked for Tuesday at 2:30 PM. I’ll confirm as soon as the calendar shows it.”
Requested
What the calendar shows
Tuesday
- 1:00 PM
- 2:30 PMService visit
- 4:00 PM
Verified in calendar
The receipt
- Requested
- Service visit, Tuesday 2:30 PM
- Calendar checked
- The slot was free
- Written
- Event ID returned by the calendar
- Read back
- Matches the request
Confirmed
Owner, if pending
Shown when the calendar does not confirm the booking.
- Owner
- Front desk
- Deadline
- Today, 4:00 PM
- Original request
- Service visit, Tuesday 2:30 PM
Needs follow-up
Two outcomes. No in-between.
Confirmed: the calendar returned an identifier and the read-back matched the request. That’s the moment the caller hears “confirmed”, not a second earlier.
Pending: the result couldn’t be verified. The request goes to a named person with a deadline and the original context, and the caller hears that it was requested.
The rules behind the steps
Notaray is built to confirm a booking after the calendar shows it, not before.
Notaray is built so that a proposed booking is not treated as booked until the calendar confirms it.
Notaray is built so that a retried request returns the original outcome instead of booking twice.
Notaray is built so that every finished booking attempt leaves a receipt.
Notaray is built so that a booking it cannot confirm becomes a callback with an owner and a deadline.
One rulebook for every channel
An API call, browser voice and phone will all run on the same booking rules. There’s no path from audio straight to a calendar write.
Phone and voice are on the way. Their page shows exactly where they stand.
Tell us where your bookings need to land.
Design partners tell us how requests arrive and which calendar holds the truth. Spots are limited.