Business settings and branding

Business settings hold everything customers see about your business: your name and description, your address and contact details, your brand colours and logo, your locations and whether your booking page is live.

On a phone, the settings pages are not a row of tabs: the button under the Settings heading shows the page you are on and its group. Tap it to see every settings page, grouped as in the sidebar on a computer, and tap one to open it.

#Edit your profile

1. Open Settings → General in the sidebar. The page is called Business settings.
2. Under Profile, fill in your Display name, a short Tagline and a longer Bio. The tagline can be up to 120 characters; a counter under it shows how many you have used, for example "86 of 120 characters".
3. Scroll down and click Save settings.

A changed tagline over 120 characters isn't saved: shorten it first. A longer tagline you saved before this limit stays as it is until you change it.

Your display name and tagline show at the top of your booking page and in the embed widget. After you change the tagline or bio, Nola offers to translate them into your other languages; you check each translation before it shows. See Translate a text when you save it.

#Add your address and contact details

The Address and contact panel, below Profile, holds what customers need to find and reach you. They see it on your public booking page.

1. Open Settings → General.
2. Under Address and contact, fill in your Street address (street, postcode and city), Phone and Email. Leave a field empty if you don't want it shown.
3. Click Save settings.

Your booking page then shows an Opening hours and contact card with these details, and the street address replaces the city at the top of the page. See Opening hours and contact. To remove a detail, empty the field and save.

A phone number can hold digits, spaces and + ( ) -, with 6 to 16 digits. If it doesn't, saving stops with Enter a valid phone number. An email that doesn't look like an email address stops it with Enter a valid email address.

The card also shows your opening hours from Services → Hours. To change them, click Edit opening hours under the panel. See Set weekly opening hours.

With one site, this is all you need. Add locations only if your business runs more than one site.

#Brand your booking page

The Branding section controls how your booking page and embed widget look. A live preview on the right shows the result as you change it, with one of your own services.

Everything in this section, the logo included, saves when you click Save settings. A new logo shows in the preview straight away, but customers only see it after you save.

If you have changed something and not saved it yet, Unsaved changes shows next to Save settings, and Nola asks before you leave the page or close the tab. After a save, Settings saved. shows there. If a save is refused, for example in the shared demo, the page scrolls to Save settings and the reason shows next to it.

The "Powered by Nola" line in the footer of your booking page and widget is set under Marketing → Booking page → Widget settings with Show "Powered by Nola" on your booking page and embed. Paid plans can hide it; on the Free plan it always shows. See Custom links and website embed.

The embed widget uses your primary colour unless you set a separate accent colour under Marketing → Booking page. See Custom links and website embed.

#Set locations and timezone

Under Locations & timezone:

1. Pick your Default timezone, for example Europe/Tallinn. Scheduled report emails are sent in your business's local time.
2. Enter your City and pick your Country from the list. Your booking page shows its name, for example "Tallinn, Estonia", unless you entered a Street address: then it shows the address. The country decides how times show on your booking page, whatever language the customer reads it in: 24-hour (14:30) in Estonia and most of Europe, 12-hour (2:30 PM) where the country uses it, such as the US. With Not set, times are 24-hour.
3. Click Save settings.

Locations, each with its own address and time zone, are only for a business with more than one site. They are on their own screen: click Open locations or see Locations. With one site, the address under Address and contact is enough. Each one can have its own per-location message footer.

First day of the week

First day of the week shows whether your weeks start on Monday or Sunday. Week views in the calendar and the rota, weekly booking limits, weekly visit limits on plans, the weekly report and the weekly summary email all follow it. You choose it during setup with the setup assistant (Sunday for businesses in the US and Canada, Monday elsewhere). After that it stays fixed, because weeks that were already counted (weekly limits, reports) would otherwise be split. To change it, contact Nola support. Businesses created before this setting existed use Monday.

#Publish your booking page

Under Publishing:

• Published (public booking page) makes your booking page, short links and embed widget live. Turn it off to take them offline.
• List in public provider directory lists your business in Nola's public provider directory, so new customers can find it. It is off by default.

Click Save settings after changing either switch.

#Related

• Publish your booking page
• Setup wizard
• Custom links and website embed
• Resources and opening hours