We’ve released a small update we think will make your life a little easier.  In an effort to make Pencil’em function more like your written appointment book, we have removed the required email address when adding your clients.  This now will allow you to schedule appointments for clients that do not have an email address or that do not want to receive email reminders.

We’ve also added a client birthday field so you will never forget another client’s birthday again!  When you create an appointment on a client’s birthday the system will now display the birthday cake icon next to the client name (see image below).  We are working on some more features related to client birthdays that we will be releasing in the future so stay tuned for those.  Also of note, you will see the service price on the main scheduling screen so you know how much you are charging for a specific appointment.

Service Prices on scheduling screen, and Birthday Icons.

We also made a minor adjustment to the “Main Scheduling” page, where the “Select Date” field is now the first thing you select when creating an appointment.  Not a major change, but it makes it easier to see what appointments you have for any given day sooner in the booking process.

As always, lots more to come so keep an eye on the blog and let us know how we are doing in the comments!