Creating Appointments

inkStar provides multiple ways to create appointments depending on your workflow.

From the calendar

Drag to create

Tap and hold on an empty area of the calendar, then drag to set the time range. A ghost tile appears showing the selected slot. Release to open the create appointment page with the start and end time pre-filled.

Floating action button

Tap the + button on the calendar. The create page opens with the currently visible date range as context.

See Creating from Calendar for details.

From a customer profile

When viewing a customer profile, you can create an appointment pre-populated with that customer. This saves time when scheduling a returning client.

Duplicate an existing appointment

From any appointment’s options menu (three dots), select Duplicate. This creates a new appointment pre-filled with:

• Appointment kind
• Employee
• Name and description
• Downpayment settings
• Price and duration

The dates are intentionally left empty so you can pick a new time slot.

Follow-up appointment

The appointment detail page shows a Follow-up quick action button, designed for creating the next session in a series of appointments for the same customer.

Create appointment page

Regardless of how you start, the create appointment page collects:

1. Appointment kind — Select from your configured kinds
2. Employee — Assign an artist or staff member
3. Timeframe — Start and end date/time with duration calculation
   • The timeframe widget checks for scheduling conflicts and warns if the employee already has an overlapping appointment
4. Customers — Add one or more customers
5. Name — Appointment title
6. Description — Free-text notes
7. Services — Select from your service catalog
8. Price — Min/max price range and additional hourly rate
9. Downpayment — Optional deposit amount and due date

Which fields appear depends on the appointment kind’s feature flags.

Series mode

Toggle series mode to create a recurring appointment instead of a single booking.