Book Like A Boss

Overview

Book Like A Boss is an online booking and scheduling platform designed for service-based businesses including coaches, consultants, photographers, and freelancers. It provides a hosted booking page system and embeddable scheduling widgets. When businesses embed Book Like A Boss widgets on their own websites, visitor-facing scripts load to render the appointment booking interface, display availability, and process scheduling requests.

What This Script Does

Book Like A Boss scripts render interactive scheduling calendars and booking forms within the host page or via an iframe embed. The widget displays available time slots, handles date selection, processes form submissions with visitor contact details, and may integrate with payment processors for paid appointments. Cookies set by Book Like A Boss scripts maintain booking session state — preserving a visitor's selected service, date, and partially completed form fields if they navigate away and return.

Session state cookies are typically short-lived, expiring at session end or within 24 hours. Preference cookies that remember timezone selection or previously viewed services may persist for 7 to 30 days. Data transmitted to Book Like A Boss servers includes appointment selections, contact information (name, email, phone), and payment tokens for paid services. This data is used to create and manage the appointment record.

Consent & Compliance

Cookies used to maintain the state of an active booking flow — preserving form progress and availability selections — serve a functional purpose that is arguably necessary for the booking service to work correctly. Under the ePrivacy Directive, these may qualify for the necessity exemption if they are scoped appropriately and not used for tracking beyond the immediate session.

Preference cookies that persist beyond the session (timezone, service preferences) are non-essential and require consent under GDPR. Under GDPR, the processing of appointment data (contact details, service bookings) is lawful under Article 6(1)(b) as necessary for performance of a service contract. Under CCPA, Book Like A Boss operates as a service provider, and contact data collected through booking forms must be disclosed in the site's privacy notice.

Should You Block This Without Consent?

Conditional. Core booking flow session cookies are defensible as functional and may not require consent gating. Persistent preference cookies and any analytics tracking embedded in the widget require consent. If the widget cannot selectively activate with only session-necessary cookies, treat it as requiring functional consent before loading.