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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.
Each stylist can have a setting of their own. Open Team, select the teammate, and set Visibility under Online booking to Salon default, Public, Invite only, or Off. Salon default follows whatever the salon is set to, so most stylists never need to change it. Stylists who manage their own booking set theirs in Settings → Account on the web, or Settings → Profile in the iOS app. The two settings work together, which is what makes a booth renter’s link useful inside a salon that books differently:
  • A stylist set to Public in an invite-only salon keeps an open link. Clients who have it book with her, and the salon page stays invite only.
  • A stylist set to Invite only has a link that opens for the clients she’s invited.
  • A stylist set to Off has a link that opens the salon page with her own section closed, so clients can still find the salon and book with someone else.

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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 photo cards 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.
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 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:
  • Require a card to book: the client saves a card to finish booking. The gentlest protection, and the foundation for the other two.
  • Deposit: collect part of the price (a fixed amount, a percentage, or full payment) when the client books.
  • No-show fee: a fixed amount or percentage of the service you can charge when someone simply doesn’t show.
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 appointments 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.
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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.
  • 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.