A bridal appointment needs a room, a consultant and the right amount of time — three things a generic scheduler doesn't know about. Capacity comes from the rooms you actually have, so a room shared between bridal and alterations counts once in both. You can fix start times per type per weekday, restrict alterations to Mondays and Tuesdays, close a buying-trip week, auto-block statutory holidays, and force-book past a full slot when you've agreed to squeeze someone in — as long as you say why, which is written onto the appointment.
Set your numbers. A booking deposit and two automatic reminders is usually the cheapest revenue you'll ever recover.
A first bridal consultation isn't a twenty-minute pickup. Each type carries its own duration, room requirement and staffing, so the day builds itself correctly.
Emails go out on their own, in your voice and your colours, and every one is logged on her record - including the ones the system decided not to send, with the reason in plain English.
Reschedules and no-shows roll up per client, quietly. Not to punish anyone — just so a Saturday morning slot goes to someone who'll use it.
Most brides start looking after work, and the store that takes the booking there and then is the store they visit. Your own availability rules, your appointment types, your deposit — on a page that matches your brand rather than a generic scheduler.
Public self-service booking is rolling out now; staff-side scheduling, deposits and reminders are live today. We'll update this line the day it's fully open, not before.
A generic scheduler doesn't know a bridal fitting needs a room and not just a person, or that a first consultation and a pickup need different amounts of time, or that the deposit should come off the gown. RingUps is built around bridal appointment types rather than generic meeting slots.
We'll rebuild it in RingUps and show you where the conflicts and gaps were.