One of the most crucial settings of Salon Booking System plugin are represented by a combination of different options that will represent your salon booking real availabilities. During the time we’ve seen that some of you are still struggling to setup this options in a correct way.

For this reason we want to provide you a very likely example of a salon setup that can be applied in many real cases.

 

“Beverly Salon” in London has a total of five seats.

 

 

 

It’s open from Monday to Saturday, from 9 AM to 8 PM, only on Saturday it closes at 10PM

 

 

 

During the Christmas holidays it’s open only from Monday to Thursday.

 

 

The staff members are five:

– Mark
– Erik
– Paula
– Lisa
– Frank

 

All of them follow the salon weekly schedule except Mark and Lisa that only work on Monday and Tuesday.

Hence you need to create a rule inside “Mark” and “Lisa” settings page like this:

 

 

“Beverly Salon” provides the following services but not all of the staff members are able to provide all of them:

 

– Hair cut ( Mark, Erik, Paula, Lisa, Frank )

 

– Hair color ( Mark, Erik )

 

– Shampoo ( Mark, Erik, Paula, Lisa )

 

– Hair massage ( Lisa )

 

– Hair extensions ( Lisa )

 

Do not forget to specify the services that each assistant is able to provide using the dedicated option inside the “Assistants settings” page

 

Note: You don’t need to specify the assistants services if he/she is able to provide all of them.

 

That’s it! If you understand these simple steps you’ll be able to complete your booking system setup in a very quick way.

For more information of Salon Booking System settings have a look at this articles too:

 

https://salonbookingsystem.helpscoutdocs.com/article/60-customers-per-session-and-average-session-duration

https://salonbookingsystem.helpscoutdocs.com/article/89-services-settings-and-options

https://salonbookingsystem.helpscoutdocs.com/article/95-assistant-setting