Bookings and the calendar

Appointments

Everything about managing appointments, scheduling, and calendar views

14 guides

Decision guides in this area

The calls behind the settings.

AM and PM visits: one booking or two, and how to price the second?One booking per day carrying two timed services, priced as a shorter second visit on its own service, because the services field holds two start times while keeping the day on one card and one invoice.Decision guideDaycare and a groom on the same day: one booking or two?One booking with both as services on it, because the services field holds two start times, two team members and two resources while the family still gets one arrival, one card and one invoice.Decision guideHow big should a puppy class be?Six to eight puppies with one instructor, because the ceiling is how many handlers one voice can coach at once rather than how many puppies fit in the hall.Decision guideHow many dogs should be on a group walk?Start at four for a solo walker and only go higher once your council limit, your lead hand and your vehicle all agree, because the ceiling on a group walk is set outside your booking system before it is set inside it.Decision guideStaff or station: what should your capacity hang off?Hang it on whichever one you would actually turn a booking away for, and on both only when both genuinely bind, because every constraint you add that is not real removes slots you could have sold.Decision guideShould every new daycare dog do a temperament test first?Yes, and it has to be a booked service the software enforces rather than a promise on your website, because the assessment you skip is the one you skip on the busiest morning of the year.Decision guideWhat commits a weekly walk, and is the meet and greet paid?A standing series with a card on file commits it and a deposit cannot, because recurring bookings do not take one, and the meet and greet is a paid first visit that gates the walks behind it.Decision guideShould boarding have fixed check-in and check-out windows?Yes, published on the service so the booking form enforces them, because open-ended collection is what breaks the next stay rather than a courtesy you extend to good customers.Decision guideHow many dogs can you board? The number that paysBoarding capacity is runs multiplied by nights, not pets per day, and the number worth setting comes from staffing and cleaning time rather than from how many beds you own.Decision guide