Calendar settings: appointment entry – required fields

In the mandatory fields, you can determine which fields must be filled in when entering an appointment in order to save an appointment. If you do not activate these fields, you can also save appointments with "empty" data, which can lead to inconsistent customer data.

You can find this area under
Settings > Calendar > Appointment Entry > Mandatory Fields

Gender Default

If the majority of your customers are either female or male, it makes sense to set a default here so that gender only needs to be explicitly selected if a customer belongs to a gender not specified here. This is useful for nail salons or barbershops, for example.
If you do not set a default here, employees must click on the gender each time to ensure clean data.

Mandatory Fields

Specify here whether name, phone number, and email address must be entered when entering an appointment in the calendar, or can be left blank if needed.
For example, if you specify the email address as a mandatory field, an appointment cannot be saved without an email address.

Attention: Please discuss with your employees how they should proceed if a customer does not have an email address or absolutely does not want to provide it. The following problems can occur if your employees cannot save appointments without an email address:

Employees always enter the same address (info@mycompany.de or similar) in order to save the appointment. In the customer file and in the duplicate finder, these customers appear as duplicates, even though they are not – and sometimes are incorrectly merged. This is critical because merging cannot be undone.
Others enter dummy addresses (asdf@asdf.de), but these can actually exist. Then a third party receives the reminder emails and can complain to you on data protection grounds.

You can find an overview of all calendar settings here.