First-run setup

Three steps take you from a fresh install to a schedulable team.

1. Set your studio basics

Schedules → Settings (every field is documented in the settings reference):

• Day window — the earliest and latest schedulable times (default 10:30–21:30). The availability painter and the schedule builder both span exactly this window.
• Timezone — the studio's timezone. It drives calendar feeds and the POS integration.
• Granularity — the grid step for painting and scheduling (default 15 minutes).
• Week starts on — the weekday your schedule weeks begin (Monday by default). Decide this now: it locks once the first schedule or painted availability exists, because stored weeks are keyed to their first day.
• Active days — which weekdays your studio operates.
• Qualifiers — one per line. Everyone is a baseline "paint person"; qualifiers like opener and closer gate shifts that require them.
• Event catalogue — the event types the builder can place (party, class, …).

2. Add your staff

Schedules → Staff users — name, email, qualifiers. Each person is emailed a temporary password and must change it on first login. Full details in Managing staff.

3. Point staff at the portal

Staff log in at yoursite.com/staff — bookmark-worthy, works on phones. From there they paint availability and everything else in the staff portal guide.

Next: understand the weekly rhythm, then build your first week in the builder.