Editing & Rescheduling Appointments

Every appointment on your calendar has its own lifecycle. Between the time it is added on your schedule and the time when the follow up thank you note is sent out upon completion, the appointment may have gone through any number of changes.

The goal of TimeTap is to make appointment management so easy that it isn't even something you have to think about any more; your appointments run themselves. As good as the intentions of our goal may be, however, there will undoubtedly come a time when you do have to step in and make some changes to the appointments on your schedule.

This portion of our documentation will get you more familiar with what changes can be made and how you can make those changes. Most of what we cover in these pages is regarding making changes to a One time appointment. We go through how to make changes to recurring appointments more in this section of our documentation.

More on Editing/Rescheduling Appointments

The types of editing and rescheduling changes that you can make to an appointment include:

Shifting the time of the appointment
Moving the appointment to a different day
Choosing a different service for the appointment
Swapping out the client for the appointment
Updating the comments or the reminders for the appointment

We'll go through each of these items in this section of our documentation site, but on this page we want to talk about when to make certain changes: Editing versus Rescheduling

When to Edit versus When to Reschedule

If you look at the appointment detail screen for any appointment on your calendar, you'll notice that each of them have 2 buttons next to the Mark As dropdown (which is used to change the appointment's status). There is a blue Edit button and a purple Reschedule button:

One question you may rightfully ask yourself is, "When should I use the Edit button and when should I use the Reschedule button?"

There are several changes you can make to appointments that you can initiate from choosing either button. By pushing either Edit or Reschedule you can:

Choose a different Service for the appointment
Choose a different Date for the appointment
Choose a different Time for the appointment
Send out a Appointment Details Change email once you save your updates

Some things, however, can only be handled by choosing one of the buttons.

It's best to choose the "Reschedule" button if you want to see the staff person's availability for the date you're selecting and want to make sure not to double book over someone else.

The "Edit" button, on the other hand, will let you change the date and time and double book yourself if that's what you'd like to do. It will also make any custom fields that you have attached to the appointment record editable.

Most of the time, either button will help you accomplish the same goal, but you may become more comfortable with one over the other or you may be in one of those use cases where you need to Edit instead of Reschedule. Whatever the circumstance may be, the following documentation in this section will help you become familiar with options available with either button.