How-to
What to do when someone does not come
One shared schedule, a reminder with the current time, and a clear split between cancellation and absence.
A cancellation and an absence are not the same
A cancellation is a time that left the book before anyone was due. An absence is a time that passed with the place still empty. If both are written with the same word in a message, reception does not know what to charge or which hour opened up.
In Calendo Health the team separates a parent’s request from an absence, so the charge follows what happened. In Calendo Beauty a cancellation is not recorded as a no-show. In both cases the distinction stays on the appointment, not in a side notebook.
The time that remains has to be the only one
When an appointment moves, the family or the client needs the final time. The first time, the one that was cancelled, does not help anyone arrive. The same is true for reception: if the change lives in a message, the day board still shows the old hour.
On the special-education therapy centres page, Today keeps the list, the calendar, and attendance together. Reception creates, moves, and cancels from the calendar. The session note, where there is one, stays on the same appointment.
Say the current time, on the channel the product has
In Calendo Health, parents receive SMS, email, and push without the clinical note, and there is a notification of the upcoming session on the phone. Reception can send SMS from the calendar when an appointment is new, moved, or cancelled. You decide exactly what parents see.
On the dental schedule, reminders go by SMS and email. For more details, see the terms of use. On the salon, the client can change the time from a link without creating an account.
With a reminder, the client sees the current time and the team sees exactly the same.
The phone by the door
Calendo Health, Dental and Beauty have iPhone and Android apps. Your schedule is on your phone, and in Health so is attendance. Finances, notes and files open comfortably on the computer.
The phone appointment app page shows the apps. Install steps open from the install page, with the same account as the browser.
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