thread Appointments: Can I book an one appointment but have an open block of time in the middle? in Payments Troubleshooting

Appointments: Can I book an one appointment but have an open block of time in the middle?

SupaStylist — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:38:31 GMT

The title of this thread has been edited from the original: Book back option in Appointments

Im looking to see if there is an option in square apointments where I could book something with an open block of time in the middle?
Example; booking a hair color job, appointment is at 1:00, takes 45 mins, leave 45 minute block open in the middle for processing, then comb out 45 block at the end.

Re: Book Back option in appointments

Tom — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:55:09 GMT

Welcome to the Seller Community, @SupaStylist!

I went to check on this and it looks like another seller brought up a similar request in this thread: How to create processing time after a hair color service?

Have a look there and let us know if any questions remain—hopefully the workaround suggested by Helen helps for now. Appreciate your patience as we make improvements based on seller feedback.

Re: Book Back option in appointments

SupaStylist — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 05:41:41 GMT

It doesn’t look like you offer the feature I’m looking for. In not offering this simple feature, it would double appointment making time and confuse things at my salon. If it weren’t for that I would try using square for all my business needs! Too bad! 😞 this would have streamlined everything beautifully

Re: Book Back option in appointments

IAmCourtney — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:27:13 GMT

I have this same issue! Please please please come up with a fix

Re: Book Back option in appointments

Helen — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 19:41:15 GMT

@IAmCourtney I'll share your feedback with the Appointments team, I know that being able to have an open block of time in the middle of an appointment would help a lot of other sellers too. We'll let you know if this feature is available in future!

Re: Appointments: Can I book an one appointment but have an open block of time in the middle?

kellyj — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:36:00 GMT

@SupaStylist

This feature is currently in Beta. Let us know if you're interested.

https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/General-Discussion/Looking-to-add-Processing-time-to-your-appointments-Beta-is/td-p/146567

Re: Appointments: Can I book an one appointment but have an open block of time in the middle?

IAmCourtney — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:37:57 GMT

@kellyj I'd love to help test it if possible

Re: Appointments: Can I book an one appointment but have an open block of time in the middle?

kellyj — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:48:58 GMT

@IAmCourtney My apologies, we're not quite at the point of testing this in CA yet, but I will keep both of your interests and let you know when we're ready! Hopefully soon!