The setup wizard

What it asks for

1. Your business
   Name, contact email, phone, address, timezone and currency. The timezone matters most — every booking time is interpreted against it. The currency is used for all prices and totals.
2. Your first service
   What you sell, how long it takes, and what it costs. You can add the rest later on the Services screen.
3. Your first staff member
   Who performs the service. Even a one-person business needs one staff record — availability is calculated per staff member, so bookings need someone to attach to.
4. Your opening hours
   The days and times your business is open. These become the business default hours; individual staff can override them later on the Scheduling screen.

Appointments or events?

The first real question is what you take bookings for. Appointments — a service with a staff member at a time — leads to services, staff and opening hours. Events & seats — dated sessions where people reserve specific seats — leads to your venue, a hall and your first event instead. Nothing is locked in: you can switch, or run both, any time under Settings.

Skipping and re-running it

You can leave the wizard at any point and configure things directly from the admin screens instead — nothing it does is exclusive to the wizard. Once completed, it does not run again, and Schedopia opens on the dashboard from then on.

If you already have services and staff

The wizard is additive: anything you create in it is a normal service or staff record you can edit or delete afterwards. If you would rather set everything up by hand, work through the screens in this order:

1. Settings → Business info — timezone and currency first, since everything else depends on them
2. Services — and categories, if you want the form’s category filter
3. Staff — and assign each staff member to the services they perform
4. Scheduling — opening hours, then any per-staff overrides