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Overview

Front Desk Central is where you run the day-to-day of your business — appointments, clients, your team, and the settings that make the app fit how you work. This guide is a quick map; each section links to a deeper guide.

Getting around​

When you sign in, you land on the Dashboard. The main navigation is the sidebar on the left (on a phone, tap the menu button in the top-left to open it). The sections are:

  • Overview — your dashboard home.
  • Calendar — your appointments, day by day.
  • Clients — the people you serve and their history.
  • Messages — incoming messages and form submissions (a badge shows unread items).
  • Content — the pages, posts, and listings for your public website.
  • Staff — your team members and their working hours.
  • Forms — build forms and collect responses (if enabled for your account).
  • Inventory — product and stock tracking (coming soon).
  • Settings — everything you configure once: services, locations, booking, and more.

The top-right header​

A few controls sit in the top-right of every page:

  • Help — opens a short menu with View help (the guide for whatever page you're on) and Contact support.
  • Feedback — share an idea or report a bug.
  • Dark / light mode — cycles through Light, Dark, and System.
  • Your account — the avatar menu, where you manage your account and sign out.

If you belong to more than one business, a Workspace switcher also appears in the sidebar so you can move between them; most owners have just one and won't see it.

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Until you set a notification email, an amber banner appears across the top: "Set a notification email so new lead submissions reach you." Without one, web-form leads are still saved to your inbox but no notification is sent. It links to Settings → Notifications — see Notifications.

The path from signed up to taking bookings​

If you're just getting started, do these in order — each one builds on the last:

  1. Set up your services — the things clients can book, with prices and durations.
  2. Add staff and schedules — who does the work and when they're available.
  3. Booking page settings — turn on online booking once services and staff are ready.

Along the way you may want to tune a few things to match your business: locations, regional settings (language and display formats), and terminology (the words the app uses).

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The dashboard home is intentionally simple right now — more at-a-glance information is on the way. For today, the sidebar is how you get to everything.