Feature of the Month - Columns!

For the past few months, the developers behind Salon Tracker have been reviewing the software looking for ways to make the program easier to use. The bookable item columns are the main feature on the booking calendar and take up majority of the screen. Although there is already features available to make the columns bigger or so that the user can see all their columns at once, this new settings feature allows the user to change the viewing of the calendar to working staff members only. This relieves the calendar of unavailable staff who aren’t working that particular day, so now if a staff member calls in sick, their column can be hidden entirely from the calendar, making more room for the available columns and bookings.

So you’re probably wondering what happens to the bookings which are in the column the user wants to hide? The user can move any appointments from that column by dragging the booking in to another column with an available time slot. The developers are also

working on this being automated so that the system can move all bookings over to another bookable item with an available slot. But say if this slot isn’t available on this particular day, the appointment can be transferred to a different day. This feature will also have a booking confirmation text implemented notifying the customer of the change in staff for that service.

There is also a feature being applied which allows the user to make the booking buttons bigger, so all the menu options, waiting list, customers and services are in a bigger button. This makes it easier for the user to select the correct buttons, especially for those who have a touchscreen monitor.

Here at Salon Tracker we have a number of updates so keep an eye out for our future blogs! Along with regular software version updates, we should have a number of desired features being added in and were also making updates to the colour schemes in the coming months! As the end of 2018 is getting closer and the nights are getting frostier, just around the corner is Halloween! Keep watch for our blog next week which includes a spooky look-book.

We’d also like to thank everyone who came to Manchester Central this weekend for the Professional Beauty show and viewed our exhibition, we hope you enjoyed yourselves! If you didn’t happen to make it to this show, we’re exhibiting in February at the London show too!

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