Wardrobe edits and shopping sessions: how to schedule them

Treat wardrobe edits and shopping sessions as two different services with their own slots: a wardrobe edit happens at the client's home and needs a long block plus travel, while a shopping session starts at a meeting point in town and has to fit inside shop opening hours. Give each a realistic length, say where it starts in the description, and place them on the days that suit them, such as weekday mornings for shopping, when shops are quieter, and longer home sessions on days without other appointments.

A wardrobe edit means going through every piece a client owns, trying things on, deciding what stays, what goes and what's missing. It depends on the size of the wardrobe and on how attached the client is to their clothes. A shopping session is about finding the missing pieces, in a set number of shops, within a budget. The first ends when the wardrobe is done; the second ends when shops close or the budget runs out. Mixing them in one service gives slots that are too short for one and too long for the other.

Lengths and prices are examples: use your own. On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description, and each slot belongs to one service with its own start and end. A client who picks "Shopping session" only sees shopping slots.

Shopping sessions work best when you've prepared the route: which shops, in which order, with pieces set aside if the shops allow it. That needs the client's sizes and budget in advance, which is why the first consultation or the booking note matters.

Long sessions are hard to fit between short consultations. A simple week might keep one or two days for wardrobe edits and shopping, and the others for studio or video consultations. Create the slots on the weekdays you choose and repeat them each week until an end date. Seasonal peaks, such as before summer holidays or the start of a new work year, may call for extra shopping slots for those weeks only.

Some clients want both sessions: first sort what they have, then buy what's missing. When that's decided, book both yourself from your calendar with the client's name, and write a note on each, such as "wardrobe edit before shopping on the 14th". If you add the client's email, they get a confirmation email and a calendar file for each.

If the client needs to move a session, they contact you and you move it from your bookings list; Book doesn't email clients about changes, so confirm the new date yourself. Book doesn't take payments, so say in the description how you're paid. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.