Invite them to log in

A new stylist needs to see their own week on their phone. Adding them to the staff list didn't do that — a staff record makes somebody bookable, and an invitation gives them a way in.

The two sit side by side on Settings → Staff for exactly that reason: Add staff creates a person the calendar can book, Invite hands out a login. Plenty of people need one and not the other.

Sending it

The panel confirms where it went and reminds you the link works for seven days. You can send another straight away or close it — the person now shows in the staff list as Invited, and in a section above it called Invited, not joined yet.

Chasing it up

That section is the only place with the two actions the staff table can't offer. Each row carries the role you gave them and an honest badge — Expires in 5 days, or Expired in red once it's gone.

Resend mints a brand-new link and restarts the clock. That matters: the old link stops working the moment you press it, so it's the right button for a lost email and for a dead one. Cancel kills the invitation outright.

Once somebody accepts, the section stops mentioning them at all — it lists people who haven't joined yet, so it empties itself and disappears rather than sitting there as a permanent reminder of something that already happened.

What they see

The link opens a page with your salon's name on it, who invited them, and the role you chose. What happens next depends on them, and none of it asks them to work it out:

• Already signed in as the invited address — one button, and they're in.
• Signed in as somebody else — this is the forwarded-invitation case. The page says so plainly and offers to sign them out and back to this same link.
• No account yet — they choose a name and a password (twelve characters minimum) and land inside the app already signed in, rather than being dropped on a sign-in form seconds after typing a password.

If the link is dead, the page says the same thing whichever way it died — expired, cancelled, or already used. It tells them what to do about it instead of what went wrong.