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Salons, clinics & appointments

Modelling businesses that sell a person's time: salons, spas, tattoo studios, clinics, photography, tutoring, consulting, pet grooming, driving schools. What moves, the setup, and the trap.

These are service businesses: you sell time and capability, usually a specific person's, sometimes in a room or station. The core moves are a service with a duration, a staff requirement, and policies.

Hair salon

Moves: service (a stylist's time) + retail + material use.

  1. Each service is a service, within a day, with a duration; it requires a stylist (any qualified or a specific one).
  2. Colour consumes dye/developer → add a recipe to the service.
  3. Long-hair surcharge and longer time → a variant with a price difference and a duration override.
  4. Deposit + no-show fee protect the calendar. Retail products sit alongside.

Nail / beauty studio

Moves: service + retail.

  1. Treatments are services with durations and staff requirements.
  2. Add-on treatments (gel, art) are add-ons or variants with duration overrides.

Spa

Moves: service over rooms + retail.

  1. Treatments are services; each requires a treatment room (resource type, whole-unit) and a therapist.
  2. A "spa day" combining treatments is a bundle of services.

Tattoo studio

Moves: service (artist time + a station).

  1. Sessions are services requiring a specific artist and a station resource.
  2. Design notes and reference images are input fields; a deposit is standard.

Dental / medical clinic

Moves: service (practitioner + room) + retail + consent.

  1. Appointments are services requiring a practitioner (by role/skill) and a room resource.
  2. Intake forms and consent are input fields — consent-tagged where fulfilment must be gated.
  3. Dispensed products are retail.

Physiotherapy / chiropractic

Moves: service (a person + a room), often as packages.

  1. Sessions are services requiring the practitioner and a room.
  2. A block of 10 sessions is a bundle or a subscription.

Photography studio

Moves: service (shoot + studio) + access (digital delivery) + retail (prints).

  1. The shoot is a service requiring a photographer and the studio resource.
  2. Digital galleries are digital products; prints are retail.
  3. Shoot details (location, brief) are input fields.

Tutoring / music lessons

Moves: service (a tutor's time), often recurring.

  1. A lesson is a service requiring a specific tutor (or a skill); online lessons need no room, in-person need a room resource.
  2. A weekly slot is a recurring booking; a term of lessons is a bundle or subscription.

Moves: service (a professional's time).

  1. Consultations are services requiring the professional; durations per service type.
  2. Retainers are subscriptions; fixed-scope work is a one-off service or product.

Pet grooming

Moves: service (groomer + station) + retail.

  1. Grooms are services requiring a groomer and a grooming station resource; size/breed variants change duration and price.
  2. Pet details are input fields. Products sit alongside.

Driving school

Moves: service (instructor + vehicle).

  1. A lesson is a service requiring an instructor and a vehicle resource.
  2. Course packages are bundles of lessons.

Trap across all of these: if the booking needs both a person and a room/station/vehicle, add both a staff requirement and a resource requirement — both are checked before a slot is offered.

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