Massage Booking Form for WhatsApp
The most important minutes of any session happen before a hand touches the table — the intake. Is she pregnant? On blood thinners? Recovering from surgery? Allergic to lavender? When those answers surface in the room, your options are already bad: adapt on the fly, or reschedule someone who’s taken the morning off and driven across town.
A WhatsApp booking form moves the intake ahead of the appointment. Clients answer the screening and scheduling questions once — modality, pressure, health notes, length — and each finished request lands in your WhatsApp as an organized message. You read it, decide whether you can take the session, and respond. Part of our WhatsApp booking form templates; one-time setup through the forwarding guide.
Screening Before Scheduling
A booking you can’t safely take isn’t a booking — it’s a liability with a time slot. Collecting health notes at the request stage means contraindications surface while the conversation is still cheap: you can ask for medical clearance, suggest a prenatal specialist, or move the appointment — before she’s on your table expecting an hour. It also changes how you prepare: bolsters and side-lying positions for a second-trimester client, unscented oil for the allergy, extra time for the post-surgery referral.
The Booking Fields
- Modality — multiple choice: Swedish, deep tissue, sports, hot stone, prenatal — or “recommend for me”
- Pressure — light, medium, or firm, stated plainly; it’s the question clients most often answer wrong in person
- Session length — 60 / 90 / 120 minutes, because the length is the calendar
- Health notes — long text for injuries, medications, pregnancy, allergies to oils and lotions, recent surgery
- Referral upload — a file upload for physio letters or scan reports, so clinical context arrives with the booking
- First visit? — a yes/no that routes newcomers through fuller intake while regulars book straight through
- Therapist preference — female / male / no preference — the courtesy clients rarely volunteer in a message
- Mobile address — an address field for home and hotel visits, so travel is priced into the confirmation
- Name and mobile number — a phone number question, so the finished request is reply-able
If a client abandons the form mid-screening, partial submissions keep whatever they entered — often enough to follow up on.
First Visits, Regulars, and the Six-Week Nudge
The form remembers what the body forgets it told you. With recall information, a returning client’s earlier answers — pressure, modality, the knee that flares up — can greet her inside later questions, so session two starts where session one ended instead of from a blank page.
Then let the thread carry the practice’s rhythm. After a session, the chat already holds her notes, so “same time in six weeks?” is a natural follow-up rather than an admin task. Five-session packages sell in the same conversation, and deposits for 90-minute and mobile bookings are settled there too — the form carries the intake, the chat carries the money, and neither leaks into the other.
Mobile Sessions Without the Phone Tag
Home and hotel visits live or die on the details the client forgot to mention: the parking situation, the third-floor walk-up, the hotel under two names. The address field starts the travel quote; the thread collects the access notes as follow-up. One form, one chat, one arriving-on-time therapist.
Frequently Asked Questions
A client disclosed something concerning — now what?
Treat it as a screening flag, not a diagnosis. Reschedule pending clearance, suggest a prenatal-qualified colleague, or proceed with modifications — and note the decision in the thread. The written record protects both of you.
Can returning clients repeat last visit's settings?
Yes. Recall reuses their earlier answers — pressure, modality, health notes — so their next form arrives pre-acquainted and they confirm in seconds instead of retyping their history.
How do deposits work for long or mobile sessions?
Settle them in the same chat as the confirmation: you reply with the time and total, the client pays, and the slot holds. Standard for 90-minute sessions and any booking with travel.
What does hotel clients need to add?
The address field gets you the hotel; the thread gets you the rest — room number on the day, parking, entrance access. Ask in your confirmation reply and everything lands in one place.







