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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

Scheduling and Online Booking

StyleSeat gives you a FREE scheduling tool and FREE online booking! Here’s how it works:

Scheduling Tool

StyleSeat has a scheduling tool that lets you manage your appointments and send auto client follow-up emails to help you spend more time with clients and less time managing your business.

Even if you don’t turn online booking on, your services will say “Call to book”, and clients can call the number listed on your profile.

Here’s what you get if you use us for scheduling:

Online Booking

Online booking will have all of the same features as above, plus the luxury of giving clients the option to book themselves. Turn your online booking on by going to “My Home/Settings/Online Booking”. Choose your client reminder and online booking notifications, and click “save”.

In “My profile/edit profile/services” you can set up your services to be “call to book” if you don’t wish to offer online booking for certain services. Just click the “Disable booking online for this service” check box and click “save service”:

We also give you the option to use power booking/appointment padding per service, so new clients can book an appointment online during the time your other client is processing, and can not book an appointment during your clean up time. See how it works: Power Booking/Appointment Padding.

Go to “My Profile/edit profile/services” and click the teal link that says “Power booking/padding (beta)”. Make sure the “Disable booking online for this service” box is NOT checked:

A dropdown menu will appear. Set your times:

Remember: Clients can filter their searches by “online booking” so be sure to turn yours on in order to increase your chances of surfacing in search!

Manage your schedule from your mobile device:

  • Download our free iPhone and iPad apps in the iTunes store (Android app coming soon!)

Once you start using us for scheduling and/or online booking, you will be able to see the following stats on your dashboard for your day/week/month:

  • Appointments booked
  • How booked you are
  • Your projected revenue totals  

Client Importing

All you have to do is get your clients imported to start using us for booking and scheduling! Find out how to import your clients here.

xoxo,

StyleSeat

Client Scheduling Notifications

New Feature Alert!

Great news! Now when you schedule, cancel, or reschedule an appointment internally on your calendar, StyleSeat will send out an automated email to your clients to let them know. You won’t have to call, clients won’t forget, and everyone stays informed! It’s a beautiful thing…

 Emails for new appointments and rescheduled appointments will:

  • Confirm the date/time/service of the appointment booked
  • Include your contact info so your clients can get ahold of you
  • Provide a link back to your StyleSeat page


 

*To turn this feature on/off, go to “My Home/Settings/Client Communications”. 

Enjoy!

The StyleSeat Team