Simple Salon's icons are simple and the colours are bold, so this guide is your cheat sheet. Bookmark it and refer back any time you spot an icon you're not sure about.
- Not sure what an icon does? Hover over it and a label pops up next to it.
- Icons live in three places: the dark sidebar on the left, the top bar above the main area, and inside the page itself for things like editing, deleting and adding.
Sidebar icons
The sidebar is always visible on the left.
- Appointments: opens the diary. This is your home page.
- POS: opens Point of Sale to ring up a sale, take a payment or process a refund.
- Roster: opens the weekly staff roster.
- Ordering: opens stock ordering.
- Online: opens your online booking settings.
- Chat Support: opens a chat with the Simple Salon support team.
- Reporting: opens reports. Still Old Look.
- Marketing: opens marketing tools. Still Old Look.
- Admin: opens the admin area. Still Old Look.
- Sign Out: locks you out of this operator session and goes back to the PIN screen. You stay logged in to the salon.
- Logged in as (your initial): shows the operator currently logged in. Click it to open Settings, Account, Help, or switch to the Old Look.
Sign Out vs Logout, what's the difference? Sign Out just locks the current operator and brings up the PIN screen. Logout, found under the Logged in as menu, ends the whole Simple Salon session and returns you to the email and password sign in. Use Sign Out when you walk away from the front desk for a moment, and Logout when you're finished for the day.
Top bar icons
The top bar lives above whichever page you're on. Most pages share these.
- Previous / Next: step back or forward a day (in Appointments) or a week (in Roster).
- Add (plus): creates something new. It's context aware, adding a sale line in POS, a service from the search bar, and so on.
- Notifications: opens the in-app notifications panel.
- Search: opens search to find clients, appointments or services.
- More (three dots): opens the overflow menu, usually Print and other utility actions for the current page.
Inside the diary and tables
These icons live on rows, cells and column headers. Same icon, same job wherever it appears.
- Plus on an empty cell: click to create. In Appointments it makes a new booking, in Roster it adds a shift.
- Pencil (edit): edit the row, field or item you're hovering on.
- Trash (delete): removes the row or item. Always asks you to confirm first.
- Three dots on a row: more actions for that specific row, hide an operator, move a column, reprint a receipt, and so on.
- Up / down chevron: collapse or expand a section.
- X in a field: clears the value in that input.
- Eye: shows or hides a masked value, your PIN for example.
Colour cues
- Green pill or button: the main action, the active tab, or "right now" markers like the Today button.
- Outlined pill: a secondary or inactive option.
- Red: the current time line in the diary, warnings, and destructive actions.
- Diagonal hatching in a diary cell: the operator is unavailable or outside their working hours.
- Pastel coloured blocks in the diary: each colour is the service category for that appointment.
Once the icons make sense, pair this guide with How to Create an Appointment and How to Process Sales Through POS to get the full flow nailed.
Questions? Head to your Help & Support page and click Submit a Request.