> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Invite a client to book

> Send one client a private link that opens your booking page on the stylist you choose.

An invite is a personal booking link for one client. It opens your booking
page the way you set it up for her: on the stylist you picked, showing that
stylist's services and times. Send it in a text, an email, or wherever you
already talk to her.

Invites are how an invite-only book stays open to the people you want in it.
Set **Who can book** to Invite only in
[your booking page settings](/getting-started/publish-online-booking), and
your regulars keep booking themselves while everyone else comes through you.

## Invite from a client profile

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the client">
    Go to **Clients** and open the person you want to invite. On iPhone and
    iPad, the same profile is a tap away from **Clients** or from an
    appointment.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose Invite">
    Select **Invite to book** in the row of actions at the top of the
    profile, next to **Book appointment** and **Message**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick the stylist">
    Choose the stylist the invite is for. **Whole salon** lets the client
    book with anyone your page offers. Stylists who manage their own book
    invite for themselves, so the choice is already made for them.

    Sable starts on the client's preferred stylist when she has one.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set an expiry, or don't">
    An invite stays good until it's used. Turn on **Set an expiry** and pick
    a date when you want it to close on its own, which suits a "this week
    only" opening.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create it">
    Select **Create**. Sable mints the link and shows it to you right away.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Send it

Once the invite exists, you have three ways to get it to the client:

* **Send by text** sends it from your salon's number, in the conversation
  she already has with you. Texting needs her mobile number on file and her
  agreement to receive texts. If she gave you that permission in person or
  on your old system, tap **Send by text** and confirm it on the spot, or
  record it any time from her profile under **Texts**. See
  [SMS consent and conversations](/guides/messaging/sms-consent-and-conversations).
* **Send by email** sends it from your salon, with your name on it.
* **Copy link** puts it on your clipboard for a DM, a note, or anywhere
  else you talk. **Share** hands it to the share sheet on iPhone and iPad.

Every invite you have out for a client is listed on her profile with who
it's for, when it went out, and the same actions, so you can send it again
from there.

## What the client sees

The link opens your booking page on the stylist you chose, with only that
stylist's services and available times. Booking finishes the way any online
booking does: she picks a service and a time, and the appointment lands on
that stylist's calendar under your deposit and card policies.

An invite for the whole salon opens your full page instead.

## One booking per invite

An invite is used up by the appointment it books. That keeps a private link
private: forwarded to a friend after the fact, it opens your page and asks
for a new invite rather than handing over another booking.

Send the same client a fresh invite whenever you want her to book again.

## Invite from an approved application

Set a form's **Approval** to **Add to clients and enable booking**, and
approving a submission creates the client and mints her invite in one step.
The link appears on the approved response, ready to copy or share. When the
form belongs to a stylist, the invite is for that stylist.

See [Intake forms](/guides/clients/intake-forms) for building the form and
approving what comes in.

## Invite from the waitlist

Set the form's **Approval** to **Add to clients and their waitlist** instead,
and approving puts the person in line with that stylist. You invite her from
**Clients** → **Waitlist** when an opening actually appears, with the same
link, text, and email actions. See
[From application to booked](/guides/clients/approved-to-book-waitlist).

## Revoke an invite

Select **Revoke** on the invite in the client's profile. The link stops
working immediately, and the client sees your booking page ask for an
invite. Revoking one invite leaves every other invite alone.

## Common questions

**Who can invite?** Owners, managers, and front desk invite for anyone on
the team. Stylists and booth renters who manage their own book invite for
themselves, for their own clients.

**Can I invite someone who isn't a client yet?** Add her in **Clients**
first, or let an application form do it: approving one creates the client
and her invite together.

**Does an invite change my booking page for everyone else?** No. It opens
one door for one client. **Who can book** still decides what everyone else
sees.

## Related

* [Publish your online booking page](/getting-started/publish-online-booking)
* [Intake forms](/guides/clients/intake-forms)
* [From application to booked](/guides/clients/approved-to-book-waitlist)
* [SMS consent and conversations](/guides/messaging/sms-consent-and-conversations)

**Still stuck?** Visit the [Help Center](/help) to submit a support ticket.