One of the key benefits of using Pencil’em is the way in which we will simplify scheduling and help you eliminate those annoying “no-shows” that just happen! But Pencil’em does so much more. Do you sometimes find yourself just sitting there with open blocks of time. Why not send an email blast to your “group” of Pedicure clients with a one day special for those open slots. Or do the same for those clients who haven’t been in for awhile (don’t worry, Pencil’em will quickly tell you who has been absent). Bottom line, you have to “market” your business, and Pencil’em is loaded with ways to get the job done! Stay tuned for more exciting ideas on how to grow your business and make more money using Pencil’em!
Dec 09
We’ve got a simple but useful new feature to tell you about today, and it involves how you view your client lists. By default, Pencil’em will sort your clients by First name, so “Amy Smith” would come before “Christine Jones” and so on. We’ve now added the ability to list your clients alphabetized by last name, which does a few things. It changes the way the lists are laid out, so instead of “Amy Smith”, it will now read “Smith, Amy”. Alphabetizing would then take place based on the last name so “Jones, Christine” would come before “Smith, Amy”. Once enabled, all client lists will use the new format. This includes the scheduling page (client drop down), the clients page (client list, and email clients), as well as Pencil’em Mobile.
To enable this feature, simply click “Settings”, then click “Appointment Settings” in the left hand navigation. You will see a new drop down menu for “Client Name Display”. Simply select “First” or “Last” name first. Simple as that!
Nov 20
We had a great time in the NBC Studios this morning. Alex Delgado hosts the daily show Central Valley Today and did a brief interview with Greg Goforth, creator of Pencil’em, along with a local Pencil’em Pro, April French. Somebody should have told Greg to relax and SMILE! He was nervous but had fun none the less. April gave some great insight to how beauty professionals can use Pencil’em and how it’s made her business better!
Nov 19
We are excited to announce that Greg Goforth, the creator of Pencil’em Scheduling Software will appear on Central Valley Today with Host Alex Delgado on Friday, Nov. 20th at 11:00 am. Alex will be talking with Greg about Pencil’em as well as some cool new up and coming features. For those not in the Central Valley of California you can see the interview streamed from the KSEE 24 website at the web address below.
Oct 12
Ok, silly blog titles aside, we’ve got some cool new features to tell you about today. It has always been the goal of Pencil’em to better the lives of our users by helping them build their own businesses and give world class tools at a very affordable cost. We are always looking for ways to better our software and one thing we saw as a problem in the beauty industry (especially to independent contractors) was the ability to easily see how much they make on a daily or monthly basis.
Lets take your taxes for instance. If you are using a book to manage your appointments, doing your taxes probably consists of flipping, page by page, through your appointment book and adding up each and every appointment. If you didn’t keep detailed records you are probably estimating the amount of money you made which can lead to inaccurate totals. There is a better way!
Today, we’ve rolled out several new reports that let you see the amount of money you have made, or are for casted to make. Come tax time all you will need to do is run the Earnings report to get exact, accurate, and detailed earnings for each month of the current year. If you run the detailed Earnings report you will be able to view an appointment register letting you see every appointment you performed for each month.
New Earnings Report
New Settings Screen
You will also notice that we have changed the way you access your account settings. You can now click the settings button from any page and you will get a drop down screen where you can update your password, phone number, username, email template, and logo. You will also see some cool new features here that allow you to see where you are in regards to your account set up (which is helpful to new users). As you start adding clients and services, and creating appointments you will see a cool set of graphs that give you quick stats regarding how many appointments you have per month (in line graph or Pie Chart), as well as monthly earnings at a glance.
New settings screen
