Pedicure Stations
Pedicure Station: six units, capacity 1, Exclusive, Required, Hidden. Link it to Gel Pedicure and every other pedicure service. Manicure services need no equipment record if the tables are never a bottleneck.
Pedicures (Appointments)
Six stations, six pedicures at once across all technicians. The seventh booking at that time is refused as fully booked even if a technician is free — equipment is the tighter limit.
For an appointment service every booking is its own session: an exclusive unit is taken whole by the booking that reserves it, and a shared unit is filled by other bookings at the same time up to its capacity.
Nail Art Workshop (Group Class)
A Nail Art Workshop (size 6) on the calendar links the stations too. Scheduling it reserves Station 1; each student takes the next, and while the workshop holds stations no pedicure can be booked on them.
Because this is a group class on the calendar, each session reserves one unit of every required, exclusive item when it is scheduled — before anyone books. Attendees are placed on that unit in turn and never pick it; once it is full the next attendee moves to the next free unit (choosing it themselves if the group is Customer Choice). When no unit is free, the session reads as full even if seats remain.
Polish Sets and Lamps
Nail Polish Set is Optional with ten units — chosen for information, never limiting. A UV Lamp used briefly by everyone can be one Shared, Optional unit.
Standalone Hire
Standalone hire is not a fit for a nail salon — stations are only used with a technician, so leave Available for standalone hire off.
Checking Allocations
Open Equipment → Allocations — the first tab — to see who holds each station. The columns are Equipment, Unit, Customer, Class, Start time, End time and Capacity used; a Session badge marks a unit held for a whole class session. Filter by Class (Gel Pedicure, Nail Art Workshop), Equipment (Pedicure Station), Customer or Date range, or search by equipment, unit or class name or class schedule ID. Use load more or load all for long lists. You can also ask the assistant to list allocations for a session, class, customer, item, unit or date.
Changing Items and Groups Later
The edits this business makes most often:
- Add a seventh station — open the item, choose the Units pill and select Add Unit, or enter a new Total units and select Go.
- Take a station out for a broken massage motor — in the Units pill set its status to Maintenance with a start date (the end date is optional). It leaves class capacity and standalone hire until it is Active again.
- Change the Nail Polish Set price — on the item's edit page; the hire price is Price per block under Advanced → Standalone hire.
Every one of these can also be done by asking the assistant.
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