{"id":362,"date":"2012-06-19T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2022-12-01T20:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T04:47:52","slug":"appointment-setup-and-cleanup-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/appointment-setup-and-cleanup-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing appointment setup and cleanup time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you need extra time before an appointment to prepare? Do you need extra time at the end of an appointment to clean up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of today we have a new feature: Appointment Setup and Cleanup Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full screenshot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup-cleanup-time.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup-cleanup-time.png 556w, https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup-cleanup-time-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can optionally configure setup and cleanup time per service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: If you were previously including cleanup time in the total duration of your service (as a workaround), you can now take advantage of cleanup time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither set up nor cleanup time will be revealed to your clients. An example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You offer a \u201c60-minute hot stone massage\u201d that requires an additional 15 minutes to set up and 15 minutes to cleanup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your calendar is free from 1:00 pm on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your client will see a free time slot starting at 1:15 pm. If your client schedules this time, there will be a new appointment on your calendar that lasts from 1:15 pm until 2:15 pm, with a 15 minute buffer surrounding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have had a fair amount of request for this feature, especially from massage therapists and from anyone needing to include travel time in their appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, keep the ideas coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you need extra time before an appointment to prepare? Do you need extra time at the end of an appointment to clean up? As of today we have a new feature: Appointment Setup and Cleanup Time. You can optionally configure setup and cleanup time per service. Note: If you were previously including cleanup time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,29],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-features","tag-appointment-cleanup-time","tag-appointment-set-up-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}