General Settings

This guide applies to:

Basic Edition
Plus Edition
Pro Edition
Business Edition

In this document:

Introduction
General Settings

Introduction

Get to the General Settings screen by going to Appointments > Settings > General Settings from the WordPress dashboard.

These settings are set up for you after the Setup Wizard, and you can go back to change them afterward, too.

Accessing the General Settings in SSA

The General Settings screen

Timezone for the Booking Calendar and Admin App

This is the timezone that you or your business is located in. The timezone you choose indeed affects the times that you see on your Admin view of appointments.

Visit our guide on Picking a Timezone for help in choosing the right one for your business.

Selecting a timezone from the Timezone for the Booking Calendar and Admin App — Select your timezone from the list. Type a few letters at the top of the list to quickly find your timezone.

Booking Calendar Timezone

The timezones that your customers see on the Booking Calendar undeniably depend on the Appointment timezone setting within each Appointment Type.

Visit the Appointment Type Settings guide to learn more about how to manage the Booking Calendar Timezones.

Date Format

When your customers are booking appointments, they’ll also see all dates displayed in the selected format.

When you’re viewing appointments, you’ll also see the date shown in your selected format.

using the date format dropdown in the General Settings — Select a date format

Time Format

When you’re viewing appointments, you’ll see the time shown in your selected format.

When your customers are booking appointments, they’ll also see all times displayed in the selected format.

using the time format dropdown in the General Settings — Select a time format

Week starts on for the Monthly View

You can set any day you’d like as the first day of the week. In conclusion, appointment Types set to Monthly View have the week start on the day you choose.

using the week starts on dropdown in the General Settings — Select a first day of the week

By default, Simply Schedule Appointments uses the setting from WordPress in most cases.

If you’re using the Weekly View, then the week will automatically start on either today’s date, or the next day with availability.

I chose to start the week on Thursday, so then my Monthly view starts on Thursday

Default Country for Telephone Number Fields

Choose a default country for your phone number field. This is especially useful if you’re noticing a slight lag in the country code detection in the booking form.

Open the dropdown and then choose your preferred country. Otherwise, you can leave it as Auto-detect.

Your customers will still have the option to choose a different country code. Additionally, this will only set the initial country code.

Selecting the Default Country Code for my Telephone Number Field from the dropdown

Appointment Contact

This is the person with whom people are booking. This name can show up as the contact person in notifications and also reminders to your customers.

Business name

This is the business name that people are booking with. Furthermore, the business name can show up in notifications and reminders sent to your customers.

By default, Simply Schedule Appointments uses the name of the site.

filling in business name field in the General Settings — Enter a business name

Default Admin Email

This is the email address where you’d like to receive email notifications for your bookings.

By default, Simply Schedule Appointments uses the site’s admin email address.

filling in the admin email address field in the General Settings — Enter an email address

Admin Phone Number

If you have the SMS feature enabled and activated, then enter the Phone Number where you’d like to receive SMS notifications for your bookings.

Edit Appointment Page

By default, we provide a blank page to host the Edit Appointments module. You can change the page this is hosted on by creating a custom Edit Appointments page.