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Need a group of appointments or services under the single client booking? You can do this with Multi Bookings

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Written by Trentenn
Updated over a week ago

If you have a requirement to add appointments within appointments or linked appointments then our Multi Booking feature is for you. 

An example goes like this:

E.g. You're a beautician & you offer pamper packs. These pamper packs may consist of multiple services i.e. Hair Wash (30 mins @ $40), Hair Styling (45 mins @ $60) & Manicure (30 mins @ $50). So a total 'Multi Booking' time of 1.45 hours with a total cost of $150.

 If you don't want to just add another new appointment for each service, multi-booking allows you to add the new appointment/s inside of the existing client appointment so they are all linked. 

HOW TO

  1. Create a new appointment, and select the main appointment you want (we will call this the master head appointment)

  2. Once you select the master head appointment, click the plus icon + to the right of the dropdown 'Add Linked Appointment'

  3. Another appointment ‘Select an appointment’ dropdown will appear. Select the Linked appointment and continue adding the new appointment.

  4. You can add 1 or more linked appointments. 

  5. To remove linked appointments click the 'Remove Linked Appointment'  - icon to the right of the Linked Appointment you want removed. 

  6. You can add notes for each Linked Appointment by selecting the Notes Checkbox 'View Notes'. This allows you to add specific notes per appointment. This will be recorded against the appointment. 

  7. Once you add more Linked Appointments, the total pricing will update accordingly in the header (top right) to be the value of the 2 or more appointments. 

  8. Further, the overall time of the appointments will update dynamically to be the total time of all Linked Appointments.  

  9. Linked Appointments can't be made by clients using Online Booking. They can make Master head appointments where you can then add additional Linked Appointments once the original online booking has been confirmed. 

  10. When saving the overall appointment, including any sub-appointments. it will appear as one appointment in the calendar.

  11. When a Multi booking is made, we only add the mast head appointment to the sales row and any associated appointments (sub) will not be added as separate sales row items. The sales row would show the total price for all items in the appointment (master head and sub appointments). When creating the invoice, we also list the sub-appointments and the price of each sub-appointment on the invoice. If the invoice needs to be changed to remove some of the sub-items, this must be done on the appointment screen first. Not on the invoice screen. You can’t delete sub-appointments from the payment screen. You can add past/future sales & additional items (like we do now on the payment screen) to the same invoice. 

  12. Appointment Popup from the calendar - the appointment popup from the calendar will include a list of all sub-appointments. 

  13. When a user clicks sale to pay, the master head appointment and all sub-appointments will also be listed on the payment screen. Note you can’t delete sub-appointments from the payment screen. They must first delete from the appointment screen. 

  14. Master head and any linked bookings will also appear in reporting. 

  15. A Multi Booking pill will appear on multi-bookings in the Sales table. 

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