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Stations (serving points)

A stationA spot where one staff member serves one visitor — a chair, desk, room or counter. is a serving point — a counter, chair or room — that a staff member can sign into. Signing into a station is optional — you can call and serve guests without one at all. A single-counter shop needs no stations.

Owner & Manager Where: Locations → Line settings → Setup 1 min read
Stations are for showing who's where, not a requirement to serve. Serving works exactly the same with nobody signed into anything.

What a station is

Think of one station per place a visitor is actually served — two chairs is two stations, one returns desk is one.

QuestionAnswer
Do stations make a line ready to open? No. That only needs the location's name and time zone and at least one line (an appointment line also needs a service).
When should I add stations? When you want the “who's at each counter” roster and per-person stats.
Can a single-counter shop skip them? Yes — skip them entirely and just call and serve.

Add & assign

  1. Open the line's Line settings, then its Setup section, for the Stations row. “where staff sign in to serve”
  2. Add a station (e.g. "Counter 2").
  3. Pick a teammate from Assigned staff, or leave it No one assigned. Whoever's on shift signs in with their PIN.
Removing a station Unassigns anyone who was on it.

Open, close & busy

StatusWhat it means
Open Free and ready for someone to sign in.
Serving Someone's been called to this counter, is parked there, or is mid-visit — any of the three, not only mid-visit.
Closed Taken out of rotation, without deleting it — handy for a lunch cover. Use Close / Reopen.
Can't remove a station? You can't remove a station showing Serving — bring the guest back, or finish with them, first.
Station has served people before? turnda keeps refusing to remove it, to protect that history. Close it instead — it stops being offered, and the record stays.
People waiting but nobody's called? Check a station is open and signed into — an unstaffed station shows up as a "needs attention" alert on your dashboard.

Related: PIN sign-in & stations · Dashboard