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With manual approval on, booking requests wait in your Inbox instead of confirming themselves. You see the booker’s name, email and topic before anything reaches your calendar and nothing is confirmed until you accept.
Manual approval is a Pro feature. On the Free plan every booking is accepted automatically. Start a 7-day free trial to enable it.

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Turn it on

There are two levels and the more specific one wins. For your whole account, use the approval switch at the top of your Inbox: Auto confirms everything, Manual sends everything to you first. For one service, open it and go to Advanced → Auto-accept bookings. A service can confirm immediately, require approval or follow your account setting. That’s how you keep a free intro call instant while reviewing every paid engagement.

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The approval flow

1

Someone requests a time

They pick a slot and fill in their details. The slot is held. Nothing is on your calendar and, for paid services, nothing has been charged.
2

The request sits as pending

You get an email and it appears in your Inbox with their name, email and topic.
3

You accept or decline

Open the request and decide.
What follows depends on the service:
  • Free service, accepted. Confirmed immediately. The calendar event is created and you both get the meeting details.
  • Paid service, accepted. Tikk emails the booker a payment link. The booking is confirmed once they pay, so an accepted paid request isn’t a confirmed meeting until the money is in.
  • Declined. The booker is emailed and the slot reopens. Nothing was charged, so there’s nothing to refund.
Requests don’t wait forever. A pending request whose slot time has passed is declined automatically and the requester is told. Leave requests unanswered and you’ll lose bookings you’d have wanted. The automatic decline is a cleanup, not a safety net.

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When it’s worth it

High-value consulting

Read the topic before committing a slot to someone who may not be a fit.

Coaching intake

Check alignment between your approach and the client’s goals before session one.

Selective hiring

Screen candidates with a short prompt before booking a formal interview.

Limited capacity

When you only have room for a few engagements, decide which ones they are.
The trade-off is real: every approval step is a delay for the person booking and some of them will go elsewhere. Turn it on where the time is expensive, leave it off where speed matters.
Manual approval works best when the booking form asks for something worth reading. A prompt like “what would you like to cover?” gives you the context to decide quickly instead of accepting blind.
Tracking pending requests programmatically? GET /api/v1/bookings?status=pending. See List Bookings.