Getting around the calendar

The calendar has three views, and a toggle in the top-right corner switches between them. Almost everything else on the screen is the same in all three.

Day view

Day view is where the front desk lives. Every working staff member gets a column, time runs down the left, and a red line shows you exactly where you are in the day.

If you have more than one person working, a staff filter appears in the toolbar. Hide anyone you're not looking after right now — the columns collapse and the remaining ones get wider. Your choice sticks, so if you always cover the same three stylists, set it once and it'll be that way tomorrow.

Week view

Week view answers a different question: how is one person's week shaping up? Pick the staff member from the dropdown in the toolbar and you get their seven days side by side.

Agenda view

Agenda drops the columns entirely and gives the whole width to one chronological list of the day — the view that survives being looked at on a phone. The day in order covers it, along with the list that sits beside the grid in the other two views.

Reading an appointment at a glance

Every appointment carries a status, and the status is shown two ways at once — as a colour, and as a small pill with the status written on it. That redundancy is on purpose: colour alone is unreadable if you're colour-blind, printing in black and white, or glancing at a screen across the room.

Status	What it means
Unconfirmed	Booked, but the client hasn't confirmed yet
Confirmed	The client has confirmed — usually by replying to their reminder
Waiting	They've arrived and checked in; the service hasn't started
In service	Happening right now
Completed	Service finished, ready to check out
Cancelled	Cancelled — shown faded so you can still see the gap it left

Not everything on the grid is an appointment. Blocked time — lunch, a break, training — renders as a striped, unbookable band, and unlike an appointment it can never be booked over.

A visit with processing time in it — colour developing — is drawn as one solid block for its whole length, not split into hands-on and hands-free parts. The appointment holds the chair either way; finding the free stretch inside it is a job for Fill gaps, covered in Overlaps and processing time.

Appointments also pick up small badges as the relevant thing becomes true: a new client, an attached note, part of a repeating series, a membership, a form waiting to be filled in. They appear on their own — there's nothing to switch on.