Booking a Provider: How a Booking Request Works
A booking on TheDirectory.uk is two people agreeing a time. You ask for a day, a time and a length, the provider accepts, asks a question or declines, and every step lands in your normal messages. No money passes through the site: anything you pay is between the two of you.
Asking for a time
Sign in, open the profile of a provider who takes bookings and choose in call (you go to them) or out call (they come to you), a length from 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1.5, 2, 3 or 4 hours to overnight, and a day and time. For an out call you say roughly where. You can add a note of your own.
A request needs at least an hour's notice and can be up to 60 days ahead. If the provider lists her own services, picking one fills in its length and kind for you.
Sign in, open the profile of a provider who takes bookings and choose in call (you go to them) or out call (they come to you), a length from 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1.5, 2, 3 or 4 hours to overnight, and a day and time.
- Optional identity check, by a person
- Every photograph reviewed before it goes live
- Free to join, free to list
What happens next
The provider sees your request on her bookings page and replies: she accepts it, asks you a question first, or declines. Each reply also arrives in your messages, so you never have to go looking for it.
Once a booking is confirmed, sort out anything still open in messages. After the time it can be marked completed, and you can leave feedback on her profile.
The provider sees your request on her bookings page and replies: she accepts it, asks you a question first, or declines.
- Optional identity check, by a person
- Every photograph reviewed before it goes live
- Free to join, free to list
Fair to everyone
A time somebody has asked for is held for them, so nobody is ever told yes to a slot someone else already has. If the provider does not answer within 24 hours, the request closes on its own and the time is free again.
You can have one open request with each provider at a time, and every booking keeps a 30 minute gap after it before the next one can start. If she has linked her own calendar, the times she is busy there cannot be booked either.
Every photograph here is reviewed by a person before it goes live, and members who have verified their identity carry the Verified tick. Browse who is online now, or join free to message them.
A time somebody has asked for is held for them, so nobody is ever told yes to a slot someone else already has.
- Optional identity check, by a person
- Every photograph reviewed before it goes live
- Free to join, free to list
Deposits
TheDirectory.uk never takes, holds or refunds money for a booking. Some providers ask for a deposit; if so, you are shown a safety notice first and must accept it before the request is sent, and the deposit goes straight to the provider's own published address.
For an XRP deposit the site checks the payment on the ledger before your request goes through, and a deposit can only be used for one booking. The site still cannot see who sent it, so the provider confirms she has received it.
TheDirectory.uk never takes, holds or refunds money for a booking.
- Optional identity check, by a person
- Every photograph reviewed before it goes live
- Free to join, free to list
Frequently asked questions
No. No money passes through the site for a booking. Anything you pay is agreed and settled between you and the provider.
From one hour ahead up to 60 days ahead.
30 minutes, 1 hour, 1.5 hours, 2, 3 or 4 hours, or overnight, as an in call or an out call.
A request that is not answered within 24 hours closes by itself, and the time becomes free again.
One open request per provider at a time. Once it is answered or closed, you can ask again.
Some providers ask for one. You accept a safety notice first, the deposit goes straight to the provider's own address, and the site never holds it. XRP deposits are checked on the ledger before the request is sent.
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