When you have a chain of salons across multiple locations, finding available times can be difficult. The Dome Global Appointments feature allows you to centralise your appointment bookings via the Dome.
There no need to login to different locations, browse up and down from the Dome or make countless phone calls between locations. Simply select any location and make the booking just as if you were right there standing in the salon. This feature also allows each individual salon location to make bookings across the network of salons quickly and easily.
For an added level of security and flexibility, individual locations can opt in or out of the Dome Global Appointments process making it perfect for a single owner chain of salons or a chain of salon franchises.
- Enabling Global Appointments in the Dome
- Enabling Global Appointments in Child Locations
- Making Appointments for All Locations from the Dome
- Making Appointments for All Locations from a Child Location
Enabling Global Appointments in the Dome
First, log into your Dome account. Go to your Dome Settings (by clicking the blue circle icon on the top right corner).
Then Sharing Settings, and tick the Allow any user to view and make appointments at any location setting, and Save. By default this will turn on Client Sharing (as Client Sharing is required to have global appointments).
Enabling Global Appointments in Child Locations
Next step is to Browse down into each of your child location accounts, and include them as part of your Global Appointments.
You can Browse each location through the Locations menu option.
Alternatively, you can Browse into your locations via the Dome menu option, from the Quick Visit List, or via the location drop-down menu as shown below:
In the child location account, go to the Settings page (by clicking the blue circle icon on the top right corner).
Then select Sharing Settings. Tick the Include in Global Appointments setting, and Save.
Do this for each location which you want to be a part of the Global Appointments. Go into each salon account, and tick this setting.
Now that you have included all relevant location accounts in the Global Appointments, head back up to the Dome and let's take a look at what it looks like from up there.
Making Appointments For All Locations from the Dome
In your Dome account, click Appointments. Notice that now you have the location menu on the top left, which allows you to switch between each locations appointment book. You can now make appointments for any of your locations from your Dome!
Making Appointments For All Locations from a Child Location
In your Child Location account, click Appointments.
Notice that now you have the location menu on the top left, which allows you to switch between each locations appointment book (that is included in Global Appointments).
You will have this same location menu to switch between the other locations.
Notes:
- If one of your locations does not want to be a part of the Global Appointments, simply disable the Include in Global Appointments setting in the location's Sharing Settings. This means that this particular location will not appear as an option in the Appointments location menu. No other salons will be able to make appointments in their location, and this location won't be able to make appointments for any other location.
- Taking a look in the child locations Sharing Settings again, you'll notice the Client Sharing Enabled setting. When this is enabled, this location's clients will be shared across all locations within the Dome. If this is disabled, the location's clients will not be shared with any other location. However if the location is included in Global Appointments, Client Sharing cannot be disabled (as Client Sharing is enabled by default if Global Appointments is enabled):
If you have any questions, please send them to us via the Submit a Request option in your Help & Support page.