Add specialists and their schedules

A specialist is a person clients book time with. Their schedule and their service list together decide what the booking page can offer — nothing else does.

Panel Appointments Specialists

The profile

• Display name — what clients see. First name and initial is usually enough.
• Title — “Colourist”, “Dermatologist”, “Master barber”. It helps a client choose.
• Photo — clients pick a face far more often than a name.
• Short bio — two lines about what they are known for.
• A panel login, if they should see their own calendar.

What each one does

Tick the services this specialist performs. This is the connection that makes “any available specialist” work: a client choosing a color treatment is only ever offered the people who do color.

The weekly schedule

Set the hours each person works, per weekday, with as many ranges as the day has — 09:00–13:00 and 14:00–18:00 for someone who takes a real lunch. Slots are only ever offered inside these hours and inside the location's opening hours, whichever is narrower.

Holidays and one-off changes

Real weeks are not the weekly template. Overrides are the exceptions: a day off, a late start, a Saturday worked as a favour.

1. 1
   Open the specialist's schedule

   The weekly grid is on the left, the list of exceptions on the right.

2. 2
   Add the date

   Either as a day off, or with the hours actually worked that day.

3. 3
   Check the calendar

   Existing appointments are not moved by an override. If someone has booked into a day now marked off, you will see it and can call them.

When someone leaves

Deactivate the specialist. They stop being offered immediately; their past appointments and their statistics stay. Move any future bookings to a colleague first, and tell those clients — the page will not do that for you.