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How to Set Up Power Booking

Power booking: this is a feature that lets you book an appointment during another appointment while your other client is processing. 

Appointment Padding: This is a feature that lets you add a 10/15 minute time slot after appointments that require clean up time. 

Set the Length! 

Click the teal “Power Booking/Padding (beta)” link

Power Booking

  • Length: This is the time it takes for the initial service ONLY. For example: If your service is “color” you would mark the “Length” as 60 min (the initial time spent applying foil to a client) then add in the processing, finishing, and clean up times after
  • Processing: This is the times you have available while your client is waiting (i.e. hair color is setting)
  • Finishing: This is the time you will be back with your client completing the service (i.e. taking foils out, blow dry)
  • Clean Up: This is the time you set aside to clean up in preparation for your next client

For example if someone booked this service at 10:00am it will block off 30 minutes then make 30 minutes available then block off 30 minutes to finish up and 15 minutes to clean up. Here is what a client trying to book an appointment would see:

So if they wanted to book a service with you at 10:30am that is only 30 minutes or less they could still book it even though another client has booked a service at 10:00am that lasts over an hour!

*Read this “How it Works” page VERY carefully, to understand how it all works: Power Booking and Appointment Padding

Appointment Padding is Here!

Some of you have had trouble managing appointment cleanup for appointments booked online. No more! We’ve just released a feature that lets you add time in between appointments booked online so you can clean up or prep  before your next client arrives.

To set up appointment padding, go to the Services section of your profile tab, and click the dropdown that says Cleanup padding time. You can add a customized cleanup time to each service one-by-one.

Another way to make your life easier. Happy Wednesday!

xo,
Melody