Appointments Please Note the above buttons... This is the tour page. Click a button to see those screens or learn more about a certain area of the software. Copyright Vertical Marketing Technologies - 2009 - 2011 Salon Shoppe makes it very simple to schedule a customer and match them with a technician. Appointment Scheduling made easy! Because you will setup the hours a technician is available in the technician’s screen ahead of time, when you go to book an appointment for a customer, you simply select the technician and the date, then only the hours the technician is available for that date will display. You can override by clicking on the filter button if you happen to know the technician will be available that day anyway. A Smart Appointment Form! It is not only simple and easy, but the appointment form gives you some nice options. The reminder feature allows your customers to be reminded of their appointments by Email, Phone, or Text message on their cell phone. You ask the customer once their preference on reminders, then when you create an appointment, it uses those preferences (although you can change them when you’re creating the appointment. Reminders can be setup to be manual, which means the program will notify you before it sends each reminder, or Automatic. With Automatic Reminders, The program will send out Emails and Text Messages without your intervention. Also, because we use the services of each Cell phone carrier called Email to SMS, there is no cost to you when sending messages. Even More Appointment Screens... We have more appointments screens to view, edit, or add appointments for your convenience. These include a weekly, daily, and daily horizontal. These screens let you view appointments for all of your technicians at a glance. The weekly schedule screen shows all customer that have an appointment for the week. If you highlight a customer (or click on them), you can see exactly what time, the technician, Appointment type, and more. This is a daily schedule screen  that shows all technicians and who they have scheduled. Remember, if you don’t like our colors, you can make these screens any color that is good for you. Here is the horizontal daily schedule screen. You can scroll throughout the day and see how busy each tech is at a glance. All schedule screens have a place where you can setup the colors and intervals for the appointments, fonts, and start and end times. Here is a screen that will show you how many appointments each of your technicians have for each day of this week. This lets you know at a glance who is getting most of the work. With Salon Shoppe, information is literally at your fingertips. There are many scheduling screens that you can use, yet they never get in your way!