Automate what happens after a booking with n8n

A booking is rarely the last step. Something usually happens next: a message to the team, a row in a spreadsheet, a contact in a CRM, a task for the morning. BookYourSlot can hand every booking to n8n the moment it happens, and n8n does the rest.

How it fits together

You create a webhook in BookYourSlot pointing at an n8n Webhook node. When someone books, reschedules or cancels, we POST the booking to that URL and your n8n workflow runs. No polling, no plugin to install.

One thing to know up front: n8n ships an official Cal Trigger node, and it will not work here. That node talks to an API version this edition does not include. Use the generic Webhook node instead, which does the same job for booking events.

Set it up

1. In n8n, add a Webhook node set to POST and copy its production URL.
2. In BookYourSlot, go to Settings, then Developer, then Webhooks, and add that URL as the subscriber.
3. Subscribe to the events you care about. Most workflows want BOOKING_CREATED, BOOKING_RESCHEDULED and BOOKING_CANCELLED.
4. Set a secret so your workflow can verify the request really came from you.
5. Activate the n8n workflow, then make a test booking on your own page.

The full version of this, including the payload shape and a ready-made signature check, is in the n8n guide in our docs.

Things worth automating first

• Tell the team. Post new bookings to a shared channel so the front desk sees them without opening the calendar.
• Keep a log. Append each booking to a spreadsheet for the numbers your accountant will ask for.
• Update your CRM. Create or update the client record so booking history sits next to everything else you know about them.
• Build your own reminders. Scheduled reminders are not built in, but a workflow can wait until the day before and send a message however you prefer to reach clients.

Common questions

Can n8n create bookings in BookYourSlot?

Not on this instance. Events flow out to n8n, not back in, because the API service is not deployed here. Everything above is about reacting to bookings rather than making them.

Do I need to self-host n8n?

No. n8n Cloud works, as long as the webhook URL is reachable from our server, which it will be.

Is the webhook secure?

Set a secret and every request is signed, so your workflow can reject anything that did not come from us. The docs include the exact check to paste into an n8n Code node.

Create your account free, then wire your first workflow in about ten minutes.