Appointment Book
The Smallbiz Appointment Book is a user-friendly module packed with features! Save time, money and the hassles of paper based appointment books.
The Appointment Book module can be used as a stand alone system, a local network or across the Internet. This means that a receptionist at one salon can arrange the appointments for a whole chain of salons.
Appointment Book Features:
- Daily and weekly views
- Take appointment information directly to the cash register
- Display appointments in two ways either by staff or resources used
- Adjust time scales between 5, 10, 15, 30, & 60 minutes
- View the appointments for every staff member for the entire day
- View a staff members appointments for a whole week
- Book regular weekly & monthly appointments
- Choose your own colour scheme for different services
- Create multi-step appointments
- Book Staff with right skills to get the right person to perform the service
- Allows booking only when resources are available preventing embarrassing overbookings
- Comprehensive appointment searching and reporting facilities
- Search on free appointment times based on staff skill and resource usage
- Friendly interface, easily copy and paste or drop and drag appointments around the screen
- SMS/Email clients to confirm appointments and get them to reply automatically
- Return SMS option for auto confirmation & cancellation
Appointment Safeguards:
- Every appointment change is traced & recorded.
- Skills checking confirms your staff skill and prevents booking the wrong staff for the service required.
- Resource checking confirms equipment is available and not double booked.
- Room checking resource ensures the right sort of room is available for the service booked.
- Simple print allows you to print out daily appointment book pages.
Appointments Online
- Allow your customers to make a live booking directly from your website.
- Online bookings are in “real time” just like booking a plane ticket, say good -bye to email requests.
- The client does not see any other appointments, only the available slots for the day, time & service they search on.
- Integrate with your website or as a standalone page.
- Fully customisable to suit your business & branding.
- Reduce no shows by accepting secure pre payments via PayPal.
- Appointments are made instantly & customers receive an automated email &/or SMS with details.
- Allow VIP clients to book online without taking payment.
- Sell gift vouchers online as part of our web bookings system.
- Vouchers are emailed directly from the system
- Clients can pay for appointments with Gift Vouchers
