The Locations hub
The Locations hub is your control room. Each location is a tab across the top; pick one and you see one simple tree — the locationA physical place your business runs, with its own opening hours and lines. One business can have many locations. You may have seen this called a “branch”, “outlet” or “site”. at the top, then its details, its manager and its linesThe queue visitors join and wait in. A location can run several. You may have seen this called an “area”. hanging off one spine.
How it's laid out
The tabs across the top
| Dot on the tab | What it means |
|---|---|
| A green dot | Live and taking visitors. |
| A grey dot (hover for “Not taking visitors”) | The location is not taking visitors right now. |
| The setup percentage | Where there is no state to show, the tab shows how much of the setup is done. |
- Owners also see a + Add a location tab, to open another location.
- A manager who runs only one location does not see tabs at all — a banner reading “You're managing {place}” takes their place.
- Below the tabs, a header card shows the location's name, time zone, whether hours are set, and how many lines it has.
- Everything about the place itself — name, address, time zone, manager — is on Location details.
- Under that, one connected line down the page holds Location details, Manager, and then every one of your lines — pick a location, then work down the list.
The setup-status card
Just under the tabs sits the setup-status card — the one place that answers "where does this location stand?"
What it shows
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| The location's name, next to its badge | The header. It doesn't show a percentage — just the name and where the location stands. |
| Open | Live and taking visitors. The only badge a plain staff member ever sees. |
| “Ready — new visitors are paused for now.” | Every essential is done, but the line is not taking joins yet. Nothing to pay and no card to add — a location costs nothing extra. |
| “{n} still needed to open” | Some essentials are still missing. |
- Set — a small dot next to each line, e.g. “6 set”, for settings you've configured yourself.
- Default — a gold dot, e.g. “{n} on safe defaults”, for settings still on turnda's default, which are fine as they are.
- Needs attention — a red dot for essentials still to do. A circle by the location's name shows the count over the words “to fix” — a checkmark once you're there.
- Each not-ready line also carries its own red “Not ready · {n} to do” pill.
| You press | What happens |
|---|---|
| Fix → | Jumps you straight into the exact place to fix a “⚠ Needs attention” essential — the right pop-up, section, or add-a-line step. |
Location settings
The first two rows on the spine open the Location settings pop-up — one place for everything that belongs to the location itself, with a list of sections down the side.
| You press | What happens |
|---|---|
| Overview | Every location fact at a glance — each row jumps straight to its own section. |
| Location details | Name, time zone, language, default open hours, check-in policy, Google-review asks, the reply-to email for this location, the privacy notice for your visitors, and Delete this location. |
| Manager | Who runs this location — assign, invite and manage roles here. |
There's no “Branding” section here, on purpose
| It's business-wide, not here | Where it actually lives |
|---|---|
| Your business name and logo | Settings → Business brand — owner only. A manager who follows this link is turned away. |
| The look of the pages visitors see | Design your visitor pages |
| Only a genuinely location-scoped setting | Sits in this pop-up |
Your lines
Each line is a single row — its name, whether it is Ready or still needs Finish setup, and two doors.
| You press | What happens | Who can |
|---|---|---|
| Add another line | Adds a new line — a separate line with its own counters and hours. You type at least one counter name before it can be saved. | Owner |
| Line settings | Opens the whole of the line's setup and every one of its settings. | Anyone on the team |
| Share / Get found | Opens the sharing pop-up — QR code, join link, website button and more. | Anyone on the team |
Line settings' own Setup section alone carries:
| In Line settings → Setup | What happens |
|---|---|
| Line name | What visitors see on the join page and on their ticket. |
| How a visit goes | One stop, or several stops (a journey). |
| How the line is split | Whether this is one line for everyone, or one per service or person — see below. |
| Counters | The places visitors are told to go when they are called, and where staff sign in to serve. Every stop needs at least one, named by you — see guide. |
| Archive this line | Retires the line and keeps everything. See below. |
| Remove this line | Deletes the line. See below. |
The rest of what used to sit on the card now lives inside Line settings
| It used to say… | Now it's in… |
|---|---|
| Who's served first | Line settings → Serving order |
| Appointment settings | Line settings → Appointments |
| Open hours | Line settings → Open hours |
| Share / Get found | Its own sharing pop-up |
Opening another location
+ Add a location opens Guided setup. It is the one way to make a location, and only the owner can do it. The first screen is headed “How do you want to start?”. With a location already in place it says “You already have {your location}. Copying it is the quickest way.”
| On the "How do you want to start?" screen | What happens |
|---|---|
| Copy {location} | Copies how that location runs. You only give the new place its own name, hours and team. The screen says it takes about 1 minute. The new location comes with a line already in it, copied from the source. One option per location you already have. |
| Start fresh | “Answer each question for this place.” You go through the setup questions for the new location one at a time. |
| Carry on where you stopped | Shown only when you left a setup part-way. It picks up your saved answers. |
| Name of this place | Names the location you're creating. It is the first question when copying too. |
| Start | Begins the questions. Cancel leaves without creating anything. |
| Do people book a time, or just turn up? | Asked only on Start fresh. A copy keeps the answer from the location it was copied from. Answered with They just turn up, They book a time, or Both. |
One line, or one per service or person
| One line Popular | By service | By staff | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the visitor picks, after scanning | Nothing — they scan and they're in | Which service they need | Which person they want |
| Best for | A counter, help desk, or one-stop clinic | Services with very different lengths — a 10-minute trim and a 90-minute colour | People who come back to their own stylist, barber or advisor |
Deleting a whole location
What it tells you before you confirm
| What it tells you | What it means |
|---|---|
| Its lines are named — e.g. “Its 2 lines are deleted — Front desk, Collections.” | Pressing Delete location removes them all in one go. The list shows which lines are about to go. |
| If it has a journey, that's named too — e.g. “It also deletes its journey, Check-in then service.” | Journeys go in the same press — no separate step. |
| “The QR codes and join links of all its lines stop working for good.” | A printed QR code on a wall becomes a dead link — anyone who scans it sees an error. |
| “Your team members lose access to this location.” | They stay on your team and keep their access to your other locations. |
| “It no longer appears in your reports or on your Dashboard.” | The location leaves your reports and the Dashboard. |
| What is kept | Archived lines go with the location, but the visit history behind them stays in turnda's records, under the same data-retention rules as everything else. Your payment history is kept too — for invoices, use your receipts from Stripe. |
| What will stop it | turnda checks every line before it deletes anything. If any line can't go — people still waiting, appointments still to come, a TV still paired to it, or visit history that has to be kept — nothing is deleted, and the pop-up names each line and why. |
| What it does to your bill | The location stops working straight away. Your package and your bill do not change when you delete a location. Your other locations are unaffected. |
- If the pop-up says “Nothing will be deleted until these lines are sorted out”, the location is fully intact. Each blocking line is listed with the reason.
- A line that has served visitors is the usual reason. Its answer is the Archive this line button right there — then delete the location, and that history stays in turnda's records.
- A TV still paired to a line: unpair it on the Devices page first. People waiting: serve or clear them. Appointments still to come: cancel them (the visitors are told).
Retiring a line: archive vs remove
| Archive | Remove | |
|---|---|---|
| What happens | Retires the line and keeps everything — stops taking visitors everywhere at once (QR, join link, kiosk, online appointment), disappears from your list, stops counting towards setup status | Deletes the line |
| Your history | Every ticket, visit, appointment and figure it ever produced stays exactly where it is | — |
| Blocked once the line has served anyone | — | ✓ |
| Reversible | ✓ | — |
What “Remove this line” tells you before you confirm
| What it tells you | What it means |
|---|---|
| “Its QR code and join link stop working for good.” | Anyone who scans a printed copy sees an error. |
| Only what the line really has, counted by turnda | Its devices that aren't paired to a TV, its services, its counters, its place in any multi-stop visit, team members assigned to it (they stay on your team), and appointment records that never took place (cancelled or lapsed) are deleted. |
| Your bill | Removing a line never changes what you pay. Your package is priced on visits, not on lines. |
| “… can't be removed yet” | People waiting, visitors on their way as the next stop of a multi-stop visit, appointments still to come, a TV still paired to the line, or visit history stops it. Each reason is listed; nothing is deleted. |
| Archive instead | When visit history is all that's in the way, the pop-up offers an Archive instead button. turnda never archives for you automatically — you press it. |
- It's hidden when nothing is archived.
- Not sure yet? Pause the line instead — Pause new joins stops new visitors while leaving everything else alone, and you switch it back on yourself.
What's in Line settings
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Overview | Every setting at a glance, its value, and a Default / Customised badge — anything customised offers a one-click Reset to default. |
| Setup | The line's name, how a visit goes, how it's split, its counters, and Archive / Remove. |
| Services | Optional: ask each visitor what they came for. Add a service, give it a length, Stop offering it (past visits keep it) or Offer again — see Services & slot lengths. |
| Serving order | Who's served next, the max-wait safety net, and auto-clearing a stale “now serving”. |
| Appointments | Online appointment, slot lengths, check-in and no-show grace. |
| Messages & timing | When heads-ups and reminders send, and which channels this line uses. |
| Capacity & limits | How many the line takes, and when it pauses new joins. |
| Open hours | When this line takes people. |
| Visitor page & privacy | What the lobby TV and tracking pages show, plus the running-late banner. |
| Lobby TV | Chime, up-next count, and whether no-show numbers show. Columns are not set here — pick a different layout in Displays instead. |
| Feedback & ratings | Ask visitors to rate their visit. |
| Staff controls | How much staff can do, and the flag labels they can apply. |
Share / Get found — every way people can reach this line
| Tab | What it is |
|---|---|
| At a glance | Each channel, with its status. |
| Join link | Copy it, or download its QR code. |
| Appointment link | Lines that take bookings. |
| Kiosk tablet | The kiosk page for a tablet at your counter. |
| QR poster | Print it, or save it as a PDF. |
| Website button | A “Join the line” button with copy-paste code. |
| Join from a phone | Switches your website's “Join the line” button on or off (off by default). It does not keep people on site: your QR code and join link are the same address, so anyone who has it — a photo of your poster, a shared link — can join from anywhere. |
Finding a setting without hunting for it
A line has more than forty settings across twelve sections, so Line settings has a search box at the top, above everything else.
| What you do | What happens |
|---|---|
| Type what you're after — e.g. “TV, WhatsApp, privacy, no-show…” | The section list is replaced by the settings that match, each with the section it lives in shown underneath. |
| Click one | You land on it, scrolled to and centred. |
| Nothing matches | It says so, and names a few words worth trying. |
Setting one line up and copying it to the rest
| In Line settings → Overview → Copy to another line | What happens |
|---|---|
| Copy to all other lines | Takes every tunable setting on this line and writes it over every other line in your whole business — not just this location, every line at every location you have. Three things stay put, listed below. |
| Save as default for new lines | Keeps these settings as the starting point, so every line you create from now on begins here instead of at turnda's defaults. Lines you already have are left alone. The same three things are left out. |
- Only the owner can copy settings across lines — a manager doesn't see Copy to another line at all, because it reaches lines outside the location they run.
Three things never travel, on purpose
| Setting | Why it stays put |
|---|---|
| Who's served first (the serving order) | Changes how a live line behaves in front of real people — each line keeps its own. |
| Whether a line is paused | Same reason. |
| Ticket number letter | Each line keeps its own, so lines that share a display can keep distinct letters. |
When two of you are editing the same thing
If someone else saves while you have the same line open, their change is already in — you get a red panel at the top of Line settings, never a quiet win or a quiet loss.
The panel: “Someone else changed this line while you were editing”
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Only the settings you both touched are listed, their value beside yours | Save changes stays switched off until you decide. |
| Anything you changed that they didn't touch | Kept either way. |
| Anything they changed that you didn't touch | Already there — the panel only asks about the genuine overlap. |
| You press | What happens |
|---|---|
| Use their values | Drops your version of those settings and keeps theirs. |
| Keep mine | Keeps what you typed — saving now writes yours over theirs. |
Location details and Open hours don't offer a choice
| What the screen says | What to do |
|---|---|
| These settings were changed by someone else. Please review and save again. | Nothing of yours was written — close the window, open it again, and redo your change on top of what they saved. |
| Someone else changed these hours — review and save again. | Same — close the window, open it again, and redo your change on top of theirs. |
Closing without saving
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| You have unsaved changes | You've changed something and not yet pressed Save changes. |
| No unsaved changes | Nothing is waiting to be saved. |
| “Leave without saving?” — “Your changes to {the line} haven't been saved yet. Close now and they're lost.” | You tried to leave with work in progress. |
| You press | What happens |
|---|---|
| Stay on this page | Stays on the page — nothing is lost. |
| Leave and discard | Leaves the page and throws away what you typed. |
- This check covers every way out: the ✕, the Close button, the Escape key, a click on the dark area around the window, a click on the sidebar, and the browser's Back button.
- Reloading or closing the tab gets your browser's own version of the same warning.
Journeys
A line set to several stops is a JourneyThe whole route of a visit that passes through several stops in order (for example reception, then consult, then pharmacy). Each stop is its own line.. Its row names the journey and the location, and carries a “Journey · {'{N}'} stops” badge.
- Open its Line settings and the Setup section shows the stops in order.
- Reorder them, tap Add a stop, or open any stop's own settings.
- Each stop is a real line with its own counters, hours and “served first” rule.
Renaming, whole-business settings, copying
| What happens | What it means |
|---|---|
| Rename a line | Changes the name visitors see on the join page and on their ticket. |
| A setting belongs to the whole business | For priority tiers and transfers between locations, the line settings point you to the right Settings page. |
| Max wait on a journey | You choose whether the limit counts per stop or across the whole visit (Line settings, Serving order). |
| Copy settings | Line settings, hours and shifts can be copied to other lines or locations. |
Related: Journeys (multi-stop visits) · Manager permissions · Billing · Business branding · Design your visitor pages · Turn on appointments · Timing — heads-up & reminders · Design your lobby-TV display · Rate the visit