Appointment Book Setup

Appointment Book Setup

Appointment Book Setup:

Step 1:

The first setup option is to go to the Administrative tab and select assign Dept Colors. This option will allow you to select the colors used when viewing the schedule appointment services in the appointment book. Select the service or dept code, and then click on the department color button. Here you can select the color that you'll like to associate with that service. Note: Stay away from dark colors, because they will limit your ability to read the service name. Follow the above for all of your other services.

Step 2: 

The next step will be to setup your employee working hours. Here you can setup the Work and off hours for your employee. In the administrative tab, select the "Emp Workhours" button. The first option is all employee Daily Hours. By default the entire employee  screen will be Dark Gray. The dark gray color indicates that the employee is off or is not taking appointments.

To activate the time that the employee will be available to take appointments, select the start time and the end time slot, and then click on the little scissors button to release the time slot for booking appointments. You'll the notice that the appointment time will have a white background. A white background means that the time slot is available for appointments. Repeat the above step for all employees.

There is no option to make a starting and ending time for the entire salon because the Unique software will  automatically base the opening and closing time on the earliest open employee appointment slot and the Latest employee opened time slot.

In the Employee Menu where all the employee personal information is entered, there is an option to "Allow Appointments". This option must be checked for the employee to be available for the appointment book. An example where this option will be unchecked is for the Receptionist.

Once you have an employee specific day setup, you can click on the starting and ending time and then click on the next day you'll like to setup, then click on the paste button to duplicate this settings for another day.