Packages and courses: one pass for several services
A pass used to be ten of one thing. Salons sell more than that: three underarm and three leg sessions as one laser course, ten massages of whatever kind she fancies that week, a facial package that mixes two treatments. In Slotora a pass can now cover several services — either one shared count, or a count for each — and the desk and the booking page both know what is left.
Three shapes of pass
You choose one when you set the pass up. A package and a course are never mixed in one pass.
| Shape | Example | How the visits are counted |
|---|---|---|
| One service | 10 blow-dries | Ten visits of that one service, as passes always worked |
| A package | 10 of any massage | One shared count, spent on any of the services you ticked, in any mix |
| A course | 3 underarm + 3 legs | A count for each service; the pass's total is their sum |
Every pass you already sell keeps working exactly as it did. A pass of one service is the same pass, with the same rules, as before packages existed.
From setting it up to the last session
Under Passes, in the browser today.
Choose what you are selling
One service, a package or a course. For a package or a course, tick at least two services; the first one you tick is its main service. Give a course its count per service, or a package its one shared count.
Give it a price and a life
The price, and how many days it stays valid after it is bought. Once somebody has bought it, the services and counts it covers are fixed — that is what she paid for — so a change means a new pass.
Sell it
She can buy it on your booking page and pay by card into your own Stripe account, or you sell it at the desk. Either way she gets her code by e-mail.
She spends it, one session at a time
At the desk you use her code on the appointment; online she types it in the gift card or pass box. Each session is taken off the right service, and the pass says what is left.
Where a session is spent, and what is checked
The same rules wherever she uses it:
| Where | What Slotora checks |
|---|---|
| At the desk, on the appointment | That the pass covers this service, that a session of it is left, and that the pass is still valid |
| On your booking page, with her code | The same, before she confirms; a service the pass does not cover is simply not paid by it |
| Two tills at once | A course's last session of a service can be taken only once, even if two people try at the same moment |
| A cancelled visit | The session comes back to the service it was taken from, unless your late-cancellation rule keeps it |
What she sees
Her e-mail with the code, the pass on your booking page and her own page name every service the pass covers, so she knows before she books that the leg wax counts and the brow tint does not.
On your side the pass on her client card names each service with what is left of it — underarm one of three, legs three of three — so whoever is at the desk can answer „how many have I got left?” without counting visits.
What it does not do
So you know the edges before a guest finds them:
- Monthly memberships that charge her card every month are not something Slotora offers salons today. A package or a course is paid once, up front.
- A package and a course are not mixed in one pass: either one shared count, or a count per service.
- A session pays a whole service, not part of one.
On the phone
Spending a pass at the desk works in the app as it always did. Setting up a package or a course, and a client card that names each covered service with what is left, come to the Slotora app with its next version; until then, set new packages up in the browser.
Questions about packages and courses
Can I sell a course of six laser sessions across two areas?
Yes. Make it a course: tick the two services and give each its count — three underarm and three legs, say. Slotora takes each session off the right area and will not let her use a fourth underarm session.
Can a pass cover any of several massages?
Yes. That is a package: one shared count, spent on any of the services you ticked, in any mix.
Do my existing passes change?
No. A pass of one service works exactly as it did before packages existed.
Can clients buy a package online?
Yes, on your booking page, paid by card into your own Stripe account. You can also sell it at the desk. Slotora takes 0%.
Do you offer monthly memberships?
Not today. A package or a course is paid once, up front; nothing is charged every month.
The rest of this product
The other pages about Slotora for busy salons.
- The team's diary
- Rooms and chairs
- The front desk
- Renting a place
- What you owe each person
- Reports and the log
- Now and next
- Fresha compared
- Treatwell compared
- Timely compared
- More than one location
- No per-seat fee
- UK salon software compared
- Switching software
- Self-employed stylists
- API and webhooks
- Rota and holidays
- Colour records and patch tests
- Two stylists, one visit
- One bill at the counter
- Salon software in the UK
Sell the course the way you already price it
The salon account is free, with no per-seat fee and no contract, and Slotora takes 0% of a pass sold online. Set up your services and your first package tonight.