Is your business ready for the festive season?

Warning, we're about to say the c word. Christmas - it's just around the corner! 'Tis the season where the nails are glitzy, the lashes are longer, the beards are finely trimmed and those bookings are coming in thick and fast. Inevitably, with the festivities, come the many questions from panicked customers like, "what's your availability this week?" "Do you do evening appointments?" And "are you open Christmas/New Years eve?"

One simple feature in Booksy can answer all of these for you, so your customers can rest easy knowing exactly when they can book in, and you can carry on focusing on doing what you love.

 Booksy's Work Schedule tool is here to simplify the busiest time of the year for all those hard workers in the health & beauty world. In a couple of clicks, you can ensure that the world will know that your business is officially closed for the holidays, no matter how long or short that is, or that you'll be extending your open hours during the week to make sure all your customers are Christmas-party ready.

And just to put the cherry on the Christmas cake, you can then shout about your festive open hours and availability by using our wonderful social post creator tool - eliminate the stress of telling all your customers too! (Want to know more? Just click here!)

How to add your Christmas Opening Hours in Booksy Biz for web users and Android

• Open Booksy Biz in a web browser (or in app if you're on android)
• Choose Business Profile from the left hand navigation
• Click Work Schedule
• Select your preferred dates
• Click Add Time Off in the right hand corner of your screen and choose Time Off For Business 
• This will then prompt a cancellation to all shifts in these dates and stop any bookings in this windows - click Apply when you're happy.
• Use our Social Post Creator or Message Blast features to tell the world when they can book in with you over the festive season.

How to add your Christmas Opening Hours in Booksy Biz for iOS (or if you're a single staff member)

• Open your Booksy Biz app
• Choose More from the bottom navigation
• Choose Business Profile 
• Click Opening Hours
• Click Opening Calendar
• Select your preferred closure dates and untick the boxes, this will then show as closed
• Use our Social Post Creator or Message Blast features to tell the world when they can book in with you over the festive season.

Don't forget; you can extend your working days with above steps too! Instead of unticking the boxes, just change your business's opening times on your selected dates and then your clients will be able to book those oh-so-convenient late night appointments with you.

So there you have it! Now you can look forward to your Christmas holidays, putting your festive socks on and your feet up - without the interruption of messages and calls. That's booking peace of mind.

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