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Booking systems

Booking Systems

Appointment scheduling looks like a calendar problem and is not. Each page below takes one real day in one kind of business and draws it.

Overview

Appointment scheduling looks like a calendar problem and is not. The difficulty is underneath: services that take different amounts of time, staff who cannot all do everything, equipment shared between them, and the dead time in the middle of a long appointment that a well-run business sells to somebody else.

Each page here takes one real day in one kind of business and draws it, then hands you a working version to try to break.

By kind of business

  • Salon Booking System

    Three stylists, one colour bar, and a colour service that holds the chair while the stylist is free.

  • Clinic Booking System

    Two doctors, one procedure room, and consultation types that are not the same length.

Tell us what you are building.

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