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How to Extend Hours over Christmas and Other Extended Trade Periods

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Need to trade later than usual over Christmas, New Year or another big period? Here's how to extend your hours without messing up your regular roster.

Extend your opening hours

Whichever rostering mode you're using, your operators' rostered hours have to sit inside your salon's opening hours. So start there.

  1. Go to Roster, then click Opening Hours at the bottom of the page.
  2. Set each day to the latest time you might trade during the period. For example, if you usually close at 8pm but need until midnight next week, set closing to midnight.
  3. Click Save.

Your Appointments page updates straight away to match, so you can book into the new times whenever you need to. You can wind the hours back again once the period's over.

Opening up a day you're normally closed

Some days you're normally closed but need to trade anyway, for example a public holiday. Use Alternate Trading Hours instead of changing your regular Opening Hours.

  1. Go to Roster, then click Public Holidays/Alternate Trading Hours at the bottom of the page. This opens the classic Simple Salon admin screens.
  2. Click New.
  3. Set Type to Alternate Trading Hours.
  4. Give it a name and a date, then set the From and To trading times.
  5. Click Save.

This opens your Appointments page for that one date, with its own hours, without touching your regular weekly schedule.

Extend your team's rostered hours

If you're on Advanced Rostering, roster your operators on for the extra hours you need, the same way you'd build any shift. If you also have Automatically Roster Operators Off turned on, anything outside those hours stays unavailable. Double check your operators are rostered on for the full period.

If you're on Simple Rostering, you set one week of hours that repeats, so extend each operator's hours for the days affected, then change them back afterwards. See Simple Rostering: Setting Opening Hours, Public Holidays and Operator Hours if you need a refresher on editing operator hours.

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