Your opening hours
The week, day by day — plus the holidays that override it, and the box that takes all of it as one sentence.
3 min readUpdated August 17, 2026Owners · Managers
Every salon has a week that's almost regular. Open six days, one late night, an early finish on Saturday, and about four dates a year where none of that is true. This screen holds both halves.
The week
Seven rows, one per day, each with an open time, a close time and a Closed checkbox. Tick Closed and the times disappear rather than sitting there as a pair of matching values, which is the honest way to say a salon isn't open.
A day marked closed offers no slots on your public booking page. On an open day, what clients can book is clamped to the window — so shortening a Thursday narrows the evening away from everybody at once, without touching a single stylist's record.
Which is the distinction worth holding on to: these are the salon's hours, not anyone's shift. Being open on Tuesday doesn't put a stylist on the floor, and a stylist with no Tuesday hours still can't be booked. Their side of it is on their own record, in Working hours and time off.
Changes sit in a save bar at the bottom until you commit them, so you can fix the whole week in one pass rather than saving seven times.
Special days and holidays
Underneath the grid, Special days & holidays is for a specific date that doesn't follow its weekday: Christmas Day, the Monday after a bank holiday, the Saturday you're closing at two for a wedding.
Press Add day, pick the date, then either tick Closed all day or set the hours you're actually keeping. The optional Label is what you'll see in the list a year later — Independence Day reads better than a bare date. A special day always wins over the weekly grid.
The date is the identity of the entry, so you can edit a special day's hours but not its date. If you picked the wrong day, remove it and add the right one.
Describing them instead
If typing fourteen times into seven rows feels like a chore, the box above the grid takes the whole thing as a sentence.
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Type your hours the way you'd say them. "Open 9 to 6 Tuesday through Saturday, late until 8 on Thursday, closed Sunday and Monday, and closed December 25th for Christmas."
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Press Preview. It comes back split into two lists — Weekly hours, a row per day, and Special days, with each holiday resolved to a real date.
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Read it against what you meant. This is a proposal, not a save. In the picture above, the sentence puts Saturday at 9–6 and the salon's saved week has it at 9–5 — that difference is exactly what the preview is for.
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Press Apply these hours, or Discard. Applying writes only the days it named; anything it didn't mention keeps its current hours.
Everything it applies goes through the same two surfaces you'd have used by hand, so there's nothing it can set that you can't then change in the grid.
Common questions
Are these the same as a stylist's hours?
No, and this is the one people get wrong. These are the salon's hours. What a stylist actually works is on their own record — see Working hours and time off. Somebody can't be booked outside their shift even on a day the salon is open.
We're closing at 2pm on Christmas Eve. Do I change the week?
No — add it under Special days & holidays. A specific date wins over whatever that weekday normally says, and your ordinary week stays intact for every other year.
Can I set different hours for a second location?
Yes. The Hours for picker at the top switches between the default every location follows and one location's own override.
Does marking a day Closed stop online bookings?
Yes. A closed day offers no slots at all on your public page. On an open day, slots are clamped to the window you set.
I typed my hours in the box and nothing changed.
Preview only shows you what it read. Nothing is saved until you press Apply these hours, and nothing at all is saved if you press Discard.
Can I edit the date on a special day I already added?
No — the date is what identifies it. Change the hours on it, or remove it and add the right date.
Related articles
- Working hours and time offStaff · Setting somebody's week, splitting a day around a long lunch, and blocking out a holiday for one person or the whole salon at once.
- The rules bookings followOnline booking · Where the times on your booking page come from — hours, rota, buffers and slot intervals — and what happens on a day with nothing free.
- Calendar rulesSettings · How often a start time comes round — the one setting that reshapes both your calendar grid and every slot a client is offered online.
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