Glossary
What is Standing Appointments?
Standing appointments are recurring bookings for regular customers (e.g., "Jane, every Tuesday at 2pm for the next 12 weeks") that are scheduled once and automatically book out the calendar.
In depth
A standing appointment is a single setup that creates a series of future bookings on a recurring schedule. Most common in chiropractic (weekly adjustments), massage therapy (biweekly sessions), and salons (every-6-week haircuts for regulars).
Without standing appointment support, the owner has to manually rebook each regular customer every visit — adding 1-2 minutes of admin per appointment, sometimes more if the time slot needs to shift. For a busy chiropractor with 30 regulars, that's an hour of rebooking work per day.
With standing appointments, you set up Jane once: "every Tuesday at 2pm for the next 13 weeks" → 13 future bookings appear on the calendar. Reminders go out automatically. If Jane needs to skip a week, she texts to cancel that one occurrence — the rest stay scheduled.
Real examples
- 1.Chiropractor: weekly adjustments for 12 weeks → 12 bookings, all on Tuesdays at 2pm.
- 2.Personal trainer: 3x/week sessions for 6 weeks → 18 bookings scheduled at once.
- 3.Hair salon: monthly haircuts for the next quarter → 3 bookings, one per month.
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