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Your booking page is the storefront: one link where clients pick a service, pick a time, and book without texting you first. This guide takes it from default to published. Every Sable workspace gets its own booking address ending in .sable.salon/book, based on your salon’s name. Yours is shown at the top of Settings → Booking Page. That’s the link you’ll share in your Instagram bio, on Google, and in every “how do I book?” reply for the rest of time. Every bookable stylist also gets a link of their own, ending in /book/ and a handle: yoursalon.sable.salon/book/hallee. It opens the booking page on that stylist, offering only that stylist’s services and available times, and the appointment books with them. Copy yours in Settings → Account, or in the Sable iOS app under Settings → Profile. For a teammate’s, open Team and select the teammate. The handle is yours to choose: edit it in the same place, and the link updates with it. Give each stylist their own link for an Instagram bio and text replies, and keep the salon link for the places clients look for the salon itself.

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Who can book

Who can book sits at the top of Settings → Booking Page, and in the Sable iOS app at the last step of Set up your booking site. It has three settings:
  • Public: anyone with your link can book. This is the setting for a page you’re sharing on Instagram and Google.
  • Invite only: the page opens for clients you send an invite to. Use it when your book is full and you want returning clients to keep booking themselves while new requests come through you.
  • Off: your page stays live at your booking address with your branding, hours, and location, and tells clients you’re not taking online bookings right now. The link keeps working everywhere you’ve shared it.

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Which stylists appear

The Stylists card in Settings → Booking Page lists everyone who takes appointments, each on or off for your salon’s page. A stylist who’s on shows in the stylist step and can be matched by First available; a stylist who’s off doesn’t appear there. Change one and the live preview jumps to the stylist step so you can see the roster clients will get. Save to publish. Being off the booking page is about online booking only. The stylist stays on your calendar, and you can still book her from the front desk, from the calendar, or with Jules. You can also switch someone from Team: select the teammate, and use Online booking below Takes appointments. Takes appointments is the bigger switch. Turning it off takes the person off the calendar and every way of booking, so use the online booking switch when you only want them off the page. Booth renters switch themselves on or off in Settings → Account on the web, or Settings → Profile in the iOS app, and the owner or a manager can switch them too. For a commission stylist, the salon decides, and her own switch shows as set by the salon. A booth renter also chooses who can book through her own link, under booking link in the same place: public, invite only, or off. That setting is hers alone and is separate from the salon’s page. Her link works the way Who can book does for the salon, and a link set to invite only or off isn’t listed on the salon’s page.

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Salon hours

Salon hours, in Settings → Booking Page (and under Your page in the iOS app), are the hours your page shows clients: when the salon is open. Add them once, then set each day to open with an opening and closing time, or leave it closed. The copy button on a day copies its hours to the days you pick. Salon hours are for showing. They never decide when clients can book: that comes from each stylist’s working hours, so a stylist who starts early or stays late still takes those appointments. Days you’re closed aren’t listed on the page, and the page shows no hours until you add them.

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Choose how clients book

Booking flow, in Settings → Booking Page, decides what the page asks for first.
  • Service first: the client picks a service, then chooses a stylist or First available, then a time. This is the default, and it suits a salon where clients come for the work.
  • Stylist first: the client opens to a roster of stylist names and photos and picks a person, then sees that stylist’s services and times. First available sits at the end of the roster for clients who don’t mind who they see. This is the flow for a salon where clients come for a name.
Either way, every stylist’s own link goes straight to her services and times, so the flow you choose shapes the salon page rather than the personal links.

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How far ahead clients can book

Your booking window lives in Settings → Scheduling, on the Booking Policies tab.
  • Maximum lead time is how far into the future your page opens. It’s set in minutes, so the 43200 you start with is 30 days: clients see the next month and book inside it. Raise it for a book that fills months out, lower it to keep your calendar close in, or set it to 0 to let clients book as far ahead as they like.
  • Minimum lead time is the other end: the notice you want before the next appointment starts, so nobody books the 9 AM at 8:55.
  • Allow online booking during processing time decides whether clients can book into a stylist’s processing time from your page. It starts off, so processing gaps are yours to fill from the calendar; turn it on to let clients book into them as well.
On the page itself, the day strip opens on the first day that still has an opening, and greys out the days you’re closed or full. The calendar button beside it opens a month view that reaches the whole window, so a client planning around a wedding in six weeks can get there in two taps. Your stylists’ week behind all of this is the Working Hours tab in the same place: each stylist, each day, available with a time range or Unavailable, plus Add break for lunch. The Time Off tab covers the exceptions. See Services, schedules, and availability for how the three fit together.

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Get the page ready

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Check what's bookable

The page shows your Public services. Open Services and confirm that everything a client should be able to book is set to Public, and that in-person-only work isn’t.
2

Style it

In Settings → Booking Page, set your logo, salon name, and description, then pick your accent color, page background, and heading font. The four font personalities (Cozy, Smart, Editorial, Glam) each change the feel of the whole page, so try them against the live preview before settling.
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Set your booking policies

The payments section of the Booking Page settings is where you protect your time with Require a card to book: the client saves a card to finish booking. The gentlest protection, and the foundation for fees. To require a card for some stylists and not others, see Require a card for specific stylists.Deposits are set on each service, in Services: a fixed amount or a percentage of the price, collected when the client books. See A deposit on a service.Cancellation and no-show fees come with your own cancellation policy, under Settings → Scheduling → Booking Policies. See Deposits, policies, and waitlist.These need payments connected to work. Not sure where to start? Require a card, skip deposits on quick services, and put deposits on the long services like color and extensions.
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Preview like a client, then save

Flip the live preview to Mobile, because that’s how nearly every client will see it. Read your description once out loud. Then Save changes.
5

Book yourself, for real

Open your booking link on your own phone, in a private browsing window, and book an appointment start to finish. You’re checking three things: the services on offer are right, the times match your actual availability, and the confirmation feels like you.

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Returning clients

Clients who have booked with you before are recognized on your booking page. They enter their mobile number, Sable texts them a six-digit code, and once they enter it the page greets them by name with their details ready. If you require a card and they already have one saved with you, it shows as the brand and last four digits, so booking again takes a number, a code, and a tap. Nothing needs to be set up: it works for every client already in your list, including you and your team if you are clients of your own salon. A few things worth knowing:
  • Their device is remembered for 30 days. On the next visit from the same phone or computer they land straight on their details and saved card, with no code to enter, including when a deposit is due that day. Each salon remembers a device separately.
  • Only a little is shown. The page shows a first name, a last initial, a partly hidden email, and a saved card’s brand and last four digits, and only after the code is entered. Not you? forgets the device.
  • Clients can update their own name or email while they book. The change waits on their profile for you to apply, so a record never changes without you seeing it. See Changes a client suggests.
  • A code is optional. A client can choose book without a code and fill in the form; the appointment still lands on their existing profile. Clients who have turned off texts book this way too.
  • New clients see the same short form as always.
  • Instagram bio first. It’s where clients actually look.
  • Google Business Profile, as your booking link.
  • Your text auto-replies and voicemail.

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Common early questions

What does my link show if I turn online booking off? Your page stays live at your booking address, with your branding, hours, and location, and a note that you’re not taking online bookings right now. That means the link keeps working everywhere you’ve shared it (it’s also the website address we give Stripe when you connect payments). Set Who can book back to Public at the top of Settings → Booking Page whenever you’re ready. A service is missing from the page. Its visibility isn’t Public. Fix it in Services. A client says she can’t book far enough ahead. Your maximum lead time decides how far the page opens. Raise it (or set it to 0 for no limit) on the Booking Policies tab of Settings → Scheduling. No times are showing. The times on offer come from your schedule and availability. See Services, schedules, and availability. I changed something and the page looks the same. Changes apply when you hit Save changes. The preview pane shows unsaved edits before that. Still stuck? Visit the Help Center to submit a support ticket.