Options and add-ons

A cut on hair past the waist is not the same job as a cut on a bob, and it shouldn't be the same price or the same forty-five minutes. The tempting fix is four services called Haircut (Short), Haircut (Medium) and so on. The better one is a single Haircut that asks.

An option group is a question attached to a service. Each answer can change the price, the length, or both.

The two shapes

A required single-select is a question the client has to answer before they can book — hair length, room size, number of people. It's the one that changes what the visit costs and how long the diary holds. Short is Included, the longer ones add money and minutes, and the slots offered afterwards reflect the answer.

An optional multi-select is your add-on list. Nobody has to tick anything, you can cap how many they take, and each one carries its own price and duration. The most useful entry on most lists is the one that goes the other way: Skip the blow-dry at −$10.00 and −15 min books a shorter, cheaper appointment for the client who's happy to leave with wet hair.

Building one

Draft with AI at the top of a new group takes the whole thing as a sentence — "hair length short/medium/long at +$0/+$20/+$50 with +0/+15/+30 min" — and fills the rows in for you to correct. Preview, at the bottom, reads the group back as a client would meet it, before you save.

Groups are shared, not copied

This is the part worth getting right, because it's what saves the work.

A group belongs to your salon, not to one service. Build Hair length once and press Attach existing on every service that needs it: cut, colour, blow-dry, treatment. When your long-hair surcharge goes from $30 to $35, you change it in one place and every service follows.

The two icons on a group's header keep that distinction visible. Edit group changes it everywhere it's attached, so a price you fix here is fixed on every service that uses it. Detach group removes it from this one service and leaves the group itself — and every other service using it — alone.

What clients see, and what they don't

Four checkboxes decide how a group reads on your booking page:

• Show prices online — off, and clients pick without seeing the money.
• Show as base prices — the option's figure becomes the price of the service instead of an addition to it. That's the natural reading for a length-based or tier-based price list.
• Show duration changes — whether "+15 min" appears next to the option.
• Internal only — the group disappears from the booking page entirely while staying available to your team at the desk.