Describe a rule and let us set it

You know the rule you want. Clients shouldn't be able to move an appointment inside twelve hours. What you don't know is that it's called the self-service cutoff and it lives on a different screen from the one you're looking at.

That gap — knowing the policy, not knowing the setting — is the only thing this screen exists to close.

How it works

Settings → Rules assistant. Type the rule in ordinary English and press Compile rule. What comes back is a list of proposed changes grouped by the screen they live on, and for each one: the setting's name, its current value struck through, the value it would become, and a sentence saying why that follows from what you wrote.

Then you decide. Apply saves them. Discard throws them away. Nothing is written until you press one.

What it can and can't reach

It can change four areas, and only four: Scheduling, Cancellation policy, Online booking and Checkout & receipts. A sentence about your opening hours or your service prices will come back with nothing to change, because those aren't its to touch.

Inside those areas it is deliberately fenced off from three kinds of setting:

• Money amounts — fee percentages, deposit amounts, tip presets.
• Free text — your cancellation policy wording, your receipt footer.
• Anything with a shape it would have to guess at.

The reasoning is worth knowing, because it tells you what the tool is for. A sentence like "charge a serious fee for no-shows" contains no number, and a tool willing to pick one would eventually pick 100%. So the assistant sets the switches and the windows, and leaves you the figures. Those are on your cancellation policy and checkout.

The honest edges

"Nothing to change — your settings already match that rule." Worth using deliberately. Describe what you think your policy is, and if it comes back with nothing, you've confirmed it in one press instead of opening four screens.

Applying isn't one save. Each area is saved separately, in turn. If one fails halfway, the earlier ones are already saved — the screen tells you so rather than pretending the whole thing rolled back, and every settings page is refreshed so what you see next is what actually landed. Re-read the screens it named if that ever happens.

If the assistant is unavailable it says so and points you at the settings pages, rather than guessing quietly. That's the same behaviour as everywhere else the AI is used: the deterministic route is still right there.