Teach Scisso to read your calendar
In short
Colour rules and title keywords tell Scisso what each Google Calendar event is: an appointment with a service and a client name, busy time, or something to leave alone. Try it below with example rules, then set your own in your profile.
You already write your calendar in your own shorthand: "Cut Maria", a yellow block for colour work, "Gym" at lunch. Rules teach Scisso that shorthand. Each event then becomes one of three things: an appointment (a service, plus whatever is left of the title as the client's name), busy time (blocked, never offered for online booking), or an event Scisso leaves alone.
The box below runs on example rules, not yours. Type any title, pick a colour, or tap the examples one by one: each shows one rule of thumb.
Try it yourself
The rules in this example
- cutHaircut
- kids cutKids haircut
- beardBeard trim
- BananaHair colour
- gymPersonal time
- callIgnore
- Default colour, no meaning
How Scisso reads it
An appointment
- Service
- Haircut
- Client
- Maria
The keyword named the service, and what is left of the title is read as the client's name.
Where your rules live
Rules belong to each person, because everyone writes their calendar differently. Open your profile, then the Google Calendar section. Every service and package you do has a tile there, next to Personal (busy) and Ignore: add keywords to a tile, or give it a colour. The owner can also set them for anyone with a connected calendar, from the Calendar mappings tile on that person's page under Team.
Where to find it
How title keywords match
- Whole words only
"cut" finds "Cut Maria", not "Haircut Ana". Write the keyword as its own word in the title.
- Case and accents do not matter
"cut" finds "CUT", and in Romanian "tuns" finds "Tunș".
- The longest keyword wins
With both "cut" and "kids cut", the title "Kids cut Leo" is a kids haircut, not a haircut for someone called Kids.
- Several services in one title
They become one visit. "Cut + beard Vasile" is a haircut and a beard trim for Vasile. This only happens for a confirmed event: a title with a marker stays a single appointment.
- What is left is the name
Once a service is found, the rest of the title (minus separators like + , - /) is read as the client's name. Scisso uses it to suggest the client, or links them when auto-match is on; it never creates one.
A service can have as many keywords as you like: "cut", "trim" and "tuns" can all mean Haircut.
Colours need a Default color first
Pick the colour your ordinary appointments already use as your Default color. It means "no opinion": an event in that colour, or with no colour of its own, is read by its title alone. Without a Default color, every colour rule is switched off.
Values shown for an example shop.
Default color
Before creating color mappings, pick the color that represents normal appointments. This is the fallback when no other mapping applies.
Each colour means one thing, and each service can have one colour. When a colour names the service, the whole title is the client's name, so a yellow "Maria Popescu" is a colour appointment for Maria Popescu.
What a rule can say
A keyword or a colour can point to any of these:
- A service or packageThe event is an appointment for it. The rest of the title is read as the client's name.
- Personal (busy)The time is blocked and never offered for online booking. No client, no messages.
- IgnoreScisso skips the event completely. Nothing is saved, so the time is not blocked either.
- TentativeA marker. The appointment waits as pending, and no confirmation goes out, until the marker comes off.
- Online booking (pending)The marker Scisso puts on an online booking request until you answer it.
The two markers stack on top of everything else: "(?) Cut Maria" is still a haircut for Maria, just not confirmed yet. Out of the box they are (?) and [Pending], and they work even with no rules at all. If you set your own marker, it replaces the built-in one: from then on "(?)" is ordinary text. Remove the marker from the title in Google Calendar and the appointment is confirmed.
When colour and title disagree
If both the colour and a keyword name something, your Which rule takes priority? choice decides. Color rule wins is the default. The choice only appears once you have both kinds of rule.
Values shown for an example shop.
Which rule takes priority?
Which rule wins when a colour and a title keyword both match the same event.
Two exceptions to know:
- Ignore always wins
An Ignore colour, or a title read as Ignore, skips the event whatever the other one says.
- A title has only one reading, and the longest keyword decides it
So in "Call Vasile about beard", "beard" is longer than the Ignore keyword "call", and the event becomes a beard trim for "Call Vasile about". Keep Ignore keywords longer and more specific than your service keywords, or use a colour for them.
When you change a rule
Every time you add, change or remove a rule, Scisso checks your future events from Google Calendar again, straight away.
- Busy time that now matches a service
- Becomes an appointment
- It comes in as incomplete, waiting for you to pick the client.
- Incomplete appointments
- Can become busy time
- When a Personal rule now matches, or when nothing matches and there is no client or service on it yet.
- Appointments with a client
- Never changed
- Once a client with a phone is linked, a rule change does not touch it. If the new rules read one differently, you get a warning to review it in your calendar instead.
- Events that now match Ignore
- Left as they are
- Ignore stops new events coming in. It does not remove ones already saved.
Appointments you book in Scisso go the other way: they are written to Google Calendar with your keyword for the service, the client's name and the service's colour (when you have set them), so they read back the same way.
When a service gets variants
If you add variants to a service (say, short and long hair) after giving it a keyword or colour, that rule no longer knows which variant it means. Its tile turns amber with "This now has variants. Pick which one this mapping points to." Tap Resolve and choose the variant.
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