Avana handles group bookings, where one client books and pays for up to twenty people in one go, and workshops with a set number of places in the Avana Academy. Group bookings are in every Avana plan, so four friends coming in for their nails is one appointment in your calendar.
For a group, set a service's price type to per person; for a workshop, create a course with a practical day in the Avana Academy.
Set the service's price type to per person and choose how many people can come in one booking, up to twenty. Clients pick the number while booking and see the price for everyone straight away.
If you're teaching people who sign up individually, create a course with a practical day. Choose the date and the number of places, and no more people than that can join.
Your workshop day sits as one block in your calendar, showing how many places are taken. Tap it to see the participants and mark who's there.
Group bookings are worth a lot, but only if they don't mean lists and messages. Avana puts the whole group in your calendar as one booking.
Four friends book in one go. One client books and pays for everyone, and you see the number of people on the appointment.
For a workshop in the Academy, you set the number of places per date. Once the day is full, nobody else can join.
A group booking and a workshop day sit between your appointments, so nobody books a cut over the top by accident.
Booking for several people is in every plan. A workshop with places is created in the Avana Academy, which you add on.
A group earns the most when you tie something to it.
If you ask for a deposit as a share of the price, it grows with the number of people. A group is then much less likely to cancel on a whim.
Record the explanation you give on the day once and sell it as a course afterwards. The practical day sits between your normal appointments.
With the Avana Academy, people can sign up for a full practical day in case a place opens up. If someone drops out, whoever is waiting gets an email.
A workshop with places is created in the Avana Academy. Create a new course and add a practical day to it, choosing one date or several for students to pick from, and the number of places per date. Once the course is live, the day is in your calendar straight away.
Yes, Avana handles groups in two ways. For a service priced per person, one client books for up to twenty people in one go. For a workshop in the Academy, each person signs up separately until the places you set are full.
For a group booking, whoever books pays for everyone: online if you ask for it, or at the salon. A deposit applies to the whole booking. For an Academy workshop, students pay for the course online or on the day, which you then record yourself.
For a workshop in Avana, yes: tap the practical day in your calendar to see the participants, who has paid, and mark who's present. A group booking is in the name of the client who booked, with the number of people; the others aren't listed by name.
In Avana a group booking is one appointment. If you cancel it, the whole booking goes, and any online payment is refunded automatically minus the service fee. If one person fewer comes, you adjust it with your client at the salon.
Yes. With the Avana Academy you record your explanation once and sell it to people who want to learn your craft. The practical day is planned in the same course and sits between your normal appointments.
Booking for several people is in every plan. A workshop with places uses the Avana Academy, which you add to Business or Business Plus for £8.99 a month, and which is already included in Business Max.
When a client pays online, a small service fee is part of the price they see from the very first screen: 3% of the booking, at least £1.49 and at most £2.29. You pay nothing on your takings, because Avana charges no commission. That small amount from the client is what lets us pay you out in full, so the whole treatment price stays with you.
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Avana lets a salon plan group bookings and workshops. For a group coming together, set a service's price type to per person: one client books for up to twenty people in one go, pays for everyone, and it sits in your calendar as one appointment, one after another or all at once. For a workshop people sign up to individually, create a course with a practical day in the Avana Academy, with a set number of places per date; full means full, the day blocks your calendar and you see who's coming and who's paid. Booking for several people is in every plan, so for a solo salon Avana Business costs £15.99 a month, VAT included, which is £0.53 a day. The Academy is added for £8.99 a month and is included in Avana Business Max.
A normal appointment is one client at one time. For a group booking or workshop at your salon you need something else: more people at once, one slot in your calendar and clarity about who pays. Avana has two routes for that, and neither needs a second system next to your calendar.
For a group coming together, such as friends, a parent with children or a hen do, set the service price type to per person. Clients choose the number of people while booking, up to twenty, and pay for everyone. In your calendar it's one appointment, timed for everyone one after another or as one fixed length if you see everyone together, and a deposit works just as for any other appointment.
If you teach people who sign up individually, create a course with a practical day in the Avana Academy. Choose the date and the number of places; the day blocks your calendar, and you see who's coming and who's paid. To share your knowledge more often, add videos and sell it as a course. Each plan is described on the pricing page.
Per service, in a few taps. Open the service, set its price type to per person and enter the maximum number of people per booking, up to twenty. Then choose how the time counts in your calendar and save.
That last choice matters most. Length times the number of people suits seeing everyone one after another: a 45-minute manicure for three people takes over two hours. One fixed length suits a group working together, such as a skincare evening with a mask for everyone. A tip: make it a separate service, such as Nail night for friends, so your normal one-person manicure stays as it was.
Use a course in the Avana Academy with a practical day in it. That's the route when people sign up individually for your day, such as a balayage workshop for fellow hairdressers or a gel polish class for beginners. Create the course, add a practical day and choose one fixed date, several to choose from, or a date that follows later, with the number of places per date.
The date appears in your calendar straight away and that time is blocked for normal appointments before the first person signs up, so you can keep Saturday free and then fill it. Once it's full, nobody else can join. On the day, tap the practical day to see who's coming and who's paid, and mark who's present; if someone pays on the day, you record it and it goes on an invoice.
More than you'd think, and most need no extra space. A nail studio does well with a nail night for friends or a hen do, seeing everyone one after another. A hair salon often gets a bride with bridesmaids or a parent with children for cuts on the same afternoon. A beauty salon can show a small group something together, such as an evening on skincare with a mask for everyone.
If you want to pass on your craft, a workshop for colleagues or beginners is a second income next to your chair. A lash lift class, a gel polish workshop or a balayage day for new hairdressers fits in the Avana Academy, with a practical day in your calendar and videos you record once. Start small with one date and four or six places, and see how quickly it fills.
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