Waiting list

What if your day is fully booked and someone wants to book? And if someone cancels last minute? Let the waiting list do the work for you.

Updated over a week ago


The waiting list is a useful feature that gives your customers the chance to book an appointment on days with no available time slots. It's a great way to give customers an extra chance to book and minimise no-shows.

Users of both Basic and Pro plans can access the waiting list, though certain features are exclusive to the Pro plan.

1. How does it work?

The waiting list gives you the flexibility to manage busy days and last-minute cancellations. When you receive a request to book an appointment and your day is already full, you can add the customer to the waiting list.

When a spot becomes available, you will be notified so that you can contact the customer and offer them the appointment. You can either call them, email them, or create an appointment directly from the waiting list.


2. What can I do with the waiting list?

Here’s what you can do with the waiting list:

  • All users in the Basic plan can do the following:

    • Customers can sign up to a waiting list for a day via the online booking widget

    • You can email subscribed customers individually when a spot becomes available.

  • In addition, users in the Pro plan can do the following:

    • Customers can sign up to multiple days via the online booking widget.

    • Customers can indicate a preference for a part of the day: morning, afternoon or evening.

    • Customers can add comments to provide additional information.

    • You can email subscribed customers when a spot becomes available in bulk.

    • You can modify text and layout of automated waiting list emails.


3. How do I enable the waiting list?

From the Settings menu

  1. On the left sidebar, click on the Gear icon (Settings)

  2. Under the Calendar section, click on Online Bookings

  3. Open the Schedule Management tab

  4. Tick the box 'Customers can register for waiting list through the booking widget'.

From the Marketing view (Pro plan users only)

1. On the left sidebar, click on the Speaker icon (marketing)

2. Open the waiting list tab on the top of the screen and click on Enable waiting list to turn it on.

ℹ️ Once the waiting list is enabled, you will see a daily overview of customers that signed up for the waiting list for that day in this page, including which service(s) they signed up for, employee and/or time of the day preference and any notes they added.


4. How do I add customers to a waiting list?

If you’re booking your customer’s next appointment but there are no available slots, you can add your customer to a waiting list directly. You can add customers to a waiting list in 2 different views:

From the calendar view

Click on the white box below any date and then click on 'waiting list' to add a customer manually.

From the marketing view

Go to the waiting list page in your marketing area, where you enabled the feature. Here you will be able to add someone by clicking on the 'New registration' button in the upper-right corner.

Create a waiting list registration (Employees)

When adding a customer to a waiting list manually either via the calendar or marketing view, you’ll need to create a waiting list registration, filling in the following details:

  • Customer name. The name of the customer you want to add to a waiting list.

❗If you want to add a new customer to a waiting list, you will need to add them to your customer base first. This can be done directly via the 'waiting list' page by adding a new registration.

  • Service(s). The service(s) the customer would like to book if a spot becomes available

  • Employee preference. If ****applicable, the employee they'd like to conduct the service (optional)

  • Date. The day the customer wants to sign up to the waiting list

  • (Pro plan🥇) Available date: Before selecting a date, the system we'll prompt you to choose what kind of waiting list registration to create:

    • Specific date: Select this option when your customer wants to sign up to a particular day.

    • Days of the week: Select this option when your customer wants to sign up to multiple days of the week. When choosing this option, customers will be automatically enrolled for all future days until they book an appointment.

      • You can also select which part(s) of the day suit your customer best, either morning, afternoon or evening. If there is no preference, leave all options selected.

  • (Pro plan🥇) Note: Add a note to include additional information about this registration.


5. How can customers sign up to a waiting list?

Customers can sign up to a waiting list inside the booking widget when the waiting list is enabled.

They will see a clock underneath the days that are completely booked for the service selected. When customers click on any of those days, they will be offered the option to sign up to the waiting list.

Depending on the plan you are subscribed to, your customers will be able to:

  • Sign up for a specific day (Basic and Pro plans)

  • Sign up for multiple days or all days (Pro plan only)

If they want to sign up to multiple days they will also be able to indicate the availability per part of the day, either morning, afternoon or evening (If they don’t select anything, all options are selected by default).

Once customers sign up to a waiting list, you receive an e-mail with all their details. Customers will see a confirmation message in the booking widget (see screenshot below).

❗️ Signing up for the waiting list is not the same as booking an appointment. As soon as a new spot opens up in your agenda, you can approach one of the customers on the waiting list to make an appointment.


6. How do I see waiting list registrations?

From the Calendar view

When there are customers signed up for a waiting list for any day, you will see a notification on the top of your calendar including the number of customers that have signed up. Clicking on the notification opens the waiting list registration page for that day.



From the Dashboard view

You can see how many people are on the waiting list today via the dashboard. If you click on 'waiting list today' you'll be redirected to the waiting list page in the marketing area. There you'll be able to see all the details of the customers that are registered for the waiting list, today or on any day.

7. What can I do when a spot becomes available?

First, open the waiting list registration for that day to enter the waiting list registration view.

From this view you can do 4 different actions: email, bulk email, call or create an appointment.

Email a customer

  1. Open the waiting list registration for that day

  2. Click on the three dots (…) icon next to the customer you want to email

  3. Click on ‘Email’ and confirm by clicking on Yes

  4. Once confirmed, the following email will be sent to your customer.

    Pro plan users can change the email design via the marketing section (tab ‘email’ on the top navigation)

Bulk email customers (Pro plan)

  1. Open the waiting list registration for that day

  2. Click on the paper plane icon next to the New registration button

  3. Confirm your action by clicking Yes

  4. The following email will be sent to your customers

    Pro plan users can change the email design via the marketing section (tab ‘email’ on the top navigation)

Call a customer

  1. Open the waiting list registration for that day

  2. Click on the three dots (…) icon next to the customer you want to email

  3. Click on ‘View Customer’ and use the number available in the customer profile to call.

    1. When using Salonized on mobile, you can call directly by tapping on the phone number

Create an appointment

  1. Open the waiting list registration for that day

  2. Click on the three dots (…) icon next to the customer registration

  3. Select ‘Create appointment’. This opens the calendar view.

  4. Tap on the available slot in the calendar to create a pre filled in appointment registration

  5. Check all details and when ready, click Create appointment

  6. Customer will receive a confirmation and the waiting list registration will be deleted automatically

❓How do I change the automated email?

Changing the automated email is available for Pro plan users only

If you would like to change the text of this email, you can do so via marketing area > email > automated emails > waiting list:


If you have any questions please let us know. We will be more than happy to help!

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