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Your booking link is the page where your students pick a day and time to book a session with you. You’ll find it in Student link, ready to copy. You have two links, and both carry your name:
  • Student portal (https://your-name.smartcookieapp.com): your students choose to book or log in to their portal.
  • Booking link (https://your-name.smartcookieapp.com/book): goes straight to booking.
If you only want them to book, send the Booking link. The student portal is their personal space, with their sessions, packs and payments: see Invite students to the portal.

Before you start

  1. At the top of the menu on the left, click your business name, choose Settings and, in the menu on the left, click Student link.
  2. On the Booking link card, click the copy button (Copy booking link). The button turns green: the link is copied.
  3. Paste it in a message to your students: WhatsApp, email or your website.
Student portal and Booking link cards, with the booking link copy button highlighted with number 2

Your links in Student link. The blue number is step 2.

To see the page the way your students see it, click Open booking link, the button to the right of the copy button.

What your students see

Your page shows your business name and logo and the courses they can book. 1 to 1 lessons courses aren’t shown straight away. Your student clicks Show your private courses, types the email you have saved for them and clicks Show my courses. If it matches, they see their courses.
A teacher's booking page, with the Confirm your email address form and the Show my courses button

What a student sees when they open your booking link

Then they pick a day and time. Your students don’t need an account to book.

What you see on your booking page

If you open your booking link in the browser where you’re logged in to SmartCookie, you see your page as a student does, plus a few notes only you see:
  • At the top right, next to the language, Student view and the Go to SmartCookie button, which takes you to Home. On a phone they sit in their own row at the very top.
  • If none of your courses can be booked, you see You don’t take bookings yet and the Create a bookable course button. It opens a new Meetings 1 to 1 course in a new tab, with the Online booking section open.
  • Under a course’s calendar, Only you see this and the Edit my hours button. It opens your Availability in a new tab.
Your students don’t see any of this.
Your old link stops working as soon as you save the new one, and someone else could take it. Send the new link to your students.
  1. In Student link, delete the name in the box at the top and type the new one.
  2. Wait until you see Available below the box.
  3. Click Save. You’ll see “Link updated successfully”. All done!
The name changes in both links at once. It follows these rules:
  • From 3 to 63 characters.
  • Only letters without accents, numbers and hyphens. Capitals become lowercase and spaces become hyphens.
  • Accented letters and ñ are deleted whole as you type (josé becomes jos). Type jose instead of josé, and n instead of ñ.
  • It can’t start or end with a hyphen, or have two hyphens in a row.
  • It can’t be a reserved name, like admin or help, or someone else’s. If it is, you’ll see “This link isn’t available” or “This link is already being used”.

What you can’t do

  • You can’t have a different link for each course. Your students choose the course on your page.
  • You can’t keep your old link after you change it.
Last modified on November 9, 2026