# About Sesami Sesami is the booking platform for Commerce. Sesami has a booking app on Shopify that helps you sell services (appointments, classes, rentals, tastings, etc.) directly from your storefront and manage availability across **resources** like team members, rooms, and equipment. ## What Sesami helps you do * **Offer bookable services** tied to Shopify products (so everything stays connected to your store) * **Control availability** by resources and rules (buffers, booking windows, block-offs) * **Reduce back-and-forth** with automated confirmations, reminders, and calendar events * **Support different booking experiences**, including in-store and POS-assisted flows ## How it fits into Shopify Sesami works alongside Shopify (customers, products, orders). Depending on your setup, bookings can be: * **Booked without requiring Shopify checkout**, or * **Booked with Shopify checkout / order creation** (useful when you want payment captured online or tracked as an order) ## Key concepts (quick definitions) * **Service**: what the customer books (often a Shopify product) * **Resource**: anything required to fulfill the service (a team member, room, machine, etc.) * **Resource type**: the category of a resource (e.g., “Team member”, “Room”, “Equipment”) ## Next steps * Set up your account: /setup/quickstart * Resources setup: /resources/resources-team-members-rooms-equipment * Setup and troubleshooting: [Quickstart Guide](/get-started/quickstart.md) * Google Calendar sync: /integrations/google-calendar-integration --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.sesami.co/get-started/about-sesami.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.