Booking from the day you're looking at
New booking now opens on the day the schedule is showing instead of today, here and in the staff app. And a second tap on a day in month view opens it.
Two changes to the schedule, both about the same thing: the day you are looking at should be the day you are working on. Both are in the dashboard and in the staff app on your phone.
Press + while the schedule is open and New booking starts on the day that's on screen — not today.
Which day it picks
The one the schedule's own header names. In day view that's the day on the grid; in week view it's the day the toolbar is anchored to; in month view it's the day you last tapped. In the staff app it's the same three answers, and the selection follows you between the views.
- Only the day is filled in. A + says nothing about a time, so you still pick one, and the list of times is the same shortlist as before.
- Pressed from anywhere else — a client's record, the dashboard, the back office — there's no day on screen to mean, so it starts on today as it always did. Same for the schedule's own list view, which is a range rather than a day.
- Nothing is booked yet. It's the wizard's starting point, and you can change the date on the step where it's asked like any other.
Nothing here narrowed what staff may book. The times offered are the ones that fit neatly around the day's appointments; the picker beside them still takes any time at all, including outside your opening hours and inside someone's time off. The one thing it asks about is double-booking a stylist, and only once you've actually done it.
Tapping a day twice in month view
Month view answers how busy the month is, and tapping a day lists what's on it underneath. What it couldn't do was show you the times, so tapping the day you already have open now takes you into day view for it. In the dashboard that's on a phone, where the month grid and the day's list share the screen; the date number and the list's own heading still open the day too, so this is a shortcut rather than the only way through.
Clicking a slot still does more
In the dashboard, clicking an empty spot in the day or week grid books with that stylist, that day and that exact time filled in. Since 22 September it first asks whether you're booking a client or blocking the time off; see Drag appointments and time off on the schedule. The + is the coarser version of the same idea: it knows the day you are on but not where in it, so it fills in the day and leaves the rest to you.