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Booking and Scheduling
Writing from Sawhorse Engineering on booking and scheduling.
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- 26 September 2026Household permissions for pet booking portalsSeparate booking, payment, pet information and pickup permissions instead of assuming everyone linked to a household has the same authority.
- 26 September 2026Pet service packages with an explainable session balanceTrack prepaid entitlements through bookings, attendance, cancellations and corrections without treating one editable balance as the entire record.
- 26 September 2026Recurring dog walks with exceptions that do not duplicateSeparate a standing walking arrangement from each visit so holidays, cover and one-off changes do not corrupt the next week of work.
- 26 September 2026Grooming schedules that learn from the work recordUse reviewed service history and explicit resource rules to estimate grooming appointments without treating breed alone as a reliable duration.
- 26 September 2026Boarding capacity is more than a count of kennelsRepresent suitable spaces, overlapping stays, household sharing and review requirements before confirming a boarding reservation.
- 26 September 2026Arrival windows that do not promise an impossible dayOffer home-service appointment windows from real capacity, then keep confirmation, estimates and changes distinct in the customer experience.
- 26 September 2026A dispatch board that understands the job, not just the calendarModel skills, travel, parts and job state before letting a dispatch board assign technicians. A free rectangle is not proof that a visit is feasible.
- 4 September 2026Testing what matters rather than chasing coverageA coverage percentage tells you almost nothing. Ranking behaviour by what a failure would cost tells you where to spend.
- 29 August 2026Why the database should refuse invalid dataApplication validation holds only for the paths someone remembered. A constraint holds for every path, including the import script written at midnight.
- 19 August 2026Taking deposits and charging a balance laterA deposit now and a balance in six weeks touches holds, saved payment methods, authentication rules and cancellation policy. Here is the whole flow.
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