Grouping your menu

A client opens your booking page and sees headings before they see prices — Hair, Nails, Skin & Body. Those headings are your categories, and they're the same ones your team reads down the calendar all day.

There are only two things to a category: what it's called, and an optional colour.

Adding one

The colour isn't decoration. It tints that category's appointments on the calendar, so a colour day and a cutting day look different from across the room, and it travels through to your booking page beside the heading. Leave it blank and nothing breaks — the calendar falls back to its own palette.

Why every service needs one

The category field on a service is required, and the picker only offers categories that already exist. On a brand-new salon that means the first thing you make is a category, not a service. It reads like an extra step and it prevents the state that's actually painful: a menu of twenty services with nothing to group them by, on a booking page that's one long unbroken list.

What clients see

Your booking page draws one section per category, and inside each one, the services that are bookable online.

A category with nothing bookable in it doesn't appear. Not as an empty heading, not greyed out — it isn't drawn at all, because an empty heading is a dead end for someone trying to book. So when a whole section vanishes from your booking page, the thing to check is the status of the services inside it, not the category.

Renaming, and getting rid of one

The ⋯ menu on each row offers Edit and Delete.

A rename is safe. Services keep pointing at the same category, and the new name appears everywhere the old one did — including on visits already in the diary.

Delete is refused while any service still belongs to it that hasn't been archived, and it tells you so rather than failing quietly. That includes the staff-only ones, not just the ones clients can book. Move those services to another category first — that's an edit on each service, one at a time — or archive the ones you were retiring anyway, and then the delete goes through.