In detail
A tailoring shop where every visit has its slot, from counter to link.
In a tailoring shop the real work happens at the table, with needle, pins and chalk, yet half the day goes to the doorbell and the phone. Someone dropping off trousers to shorten finds a line of people waiting to try on a new jacket. Here is how you give each visit its own time without losing touch with the people who bring you their clothes.
Hems, repairs and fittings
The starting list is built for the counter: a fitting of thirty minutes, a hem and a small repair of fifteen each. Rename them the way you say them, add taking in a waist, replacing a zipper, reshaping a coat, and give each one the time you really need to pin the garment on the body. Clients choose from your link and only see times where that job fits, so a hem never eats the half hour you kept for someone slipping into a suit. What garment it is and what needs doing goes in the note to the business before they confirm.
The garment stays, the drop-off is booked
With SeeYouNext you book the moment the garment comes in, not the sewing hours that follow in the back room. The client leaves the jacket and you tell them when it will be done. Right now the app sends no ready-for-pickup alert: you call or text as you already do, or add a short pickup item to your list and set the time yourself, so the usual reminder goes out. There is no measurement card either: sizes stay in your notebook, or you type them as free text in the client notes.
Saturday mornings and wedding season
You know the rush: Saturdays, the weeks before weddings and first communions, the change of season when everyone needs trousers shortened. Open the hours you want, close for lunch, mark the August break once and nobody books over it. When an afternoon is full, people who wanted it join the waiting list and hear as soon as someone cancels. The link takes bookings up to sixty days ahead, and each client can hold at most two open appointments online; for a dress that needs three visits, you put the later dates in the diary yourself.
Reminders, delays and whoever sews with you
Clients who turned on notifications get an automatic reminder, by default the day before and two hours before; for everyone else you send it on WhatsApp with one tap on the booking, from the shop number, text already written. If an alteration keeps you at the table longer than planned, mark the delay and the next person sees the new time on their page. If a second tailor or an apprentice works with you, each has a diary and only the jobs they do, up to 12 people. It is free during the beta, with no fee on bookings.
