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Running a multi-stop visit

A multi-stop visit — reception, then the doctor, then the pharmacy — is one visitor, one number and one tracking link moving through several lines. Setting one up is in Journeys. This is what it's like to RUN one at the counter.

Everyone Where: Queue → a guest's action panel 7 min read

Each stop is an ordinary line. It has its own counters, its own hours and its own waiting list, and you serve it exactly like any other. The only thing that's different is how somebody leaves it — instead of Complete, you send them on.

1Reception
A-7
2Doctor
Send to next stage
3Pharmacy
4Visit complete
Only shown at the last stop

One visit, three stops — the visitor keeps one number the whole way.

Sending somebody on to their next stop

While you're serving a multi-stop visitor, one extra tile appears — Send to next stage.

One tap ends your part and puts them in the next stop's line.
They keep their place there — by when they first arrived, never at the back.
They keep their number and their tracking page updates itself.

Rule	What it means
It only shows while you're serving them	Not while they're waiting, not while they're called — press Start serving first. Tapping it too early is told plainly — “Start serving this visitor before moving them on to their next stop.”
At the last stop it isn't there at all	There is nowhere left to send them, so Complete is the ending.
Two people can't send the same person twice	If a colleague got there first, only one of you moves them; the other is told what actually happened, and nothing is done twice.
Every role can do it	Staff included, at the lines they work.

They keep their place — only the wait clock restarts. The next stop's line puts them by when they first arrived. Somebody who arrived at reception at 9:00 and reaches the consult at 9:20 goes ahead of a person who got to the consult at 9:10. What starts again is the wait clock — somebody who waited 25 minutes at reception arrives at the consult with a clock reading zero, because each stop only sees its own waiting. (A transfer to a different line is the opposite: they join the back.)

That is deliberate, so each stop is staffed for the load it really has.
If the promise you make is about the WHOLE appointment, there's a line setting for that — see Journeys.
One thing does carry across — a priority tier or an emergency keeps its rank at every stop.

If the next stop isn't open Closed, paused, or already at its capacity — they aren't lost and they aren't dropped. They're parked at that stop (see below) and told, and the moment it reopens they're let in at their proper place.

Their visit — seeing and changing the plan

Next to a multi-stop visitor's name is a button, Their visit — see and change their steps. It shows their whole route.

Each step numbered, a tick on the ones done.
“Here now” on the one they're at.
“Still to do” on what's left.
If they aren't on a multi-stop visit it says so rather than showing you an empty list.

On the Queue, a multi-stop visitor's row also tells you where they are and where they go next, so you rarely need to open the plan — for example “Now: Doctor · Next: Pharmacy”, or “Now: Pharmacy · Last stop”.

Four things can be changed. Steps that have already happened, and the step the visitor is at right now, are sealed — except for the counter (below) — because changing them would only make the record untrue.

You press	What happens	Who can
Any counter	Each not-yet-started step offers this by default; pick one of that step's own counters instead and they'll be sent there when they reach it. You can also change the counter of the step they are WAITING at right now, so a visitor is never stuck waiting for a counter that has closed. Anyone who serves the line can do this, staff included.	Anyone on the team
Add a step	Shows every open line at this location as a tile. Choose Next (the very next step) or At the end, then tap the line. A line they have already finished can be added again. The visitor keeps their original place in that line's queue, and only this one visitor's plan changes. At a location with many lines a “Find a line” box appears.	Any staff member at the branch, when the line lets staff change a visitor's journey
Take this step out	Removes a not-yet-started step. Use Put this step back to undo it. A taken-out step stays visible with a line through it and, where we know it, “Taken out by” who and when.	Any staff member at the branch, when the line lets staff change a visitor's journey
Move up	Moves a step one place earlier. Only steps that haven't started can be moved; the one the visitor is at now, and the ones already done, stay where they are.	Any staff member at the branch, when the line lets staff change a visitor's journey
Move down	Moves a step one place later, the same way.	Any staff member at the branch, when the line lets staff change a visitor's journey

Nobody is messaged about a change The visitor's tracking page changes at once and the usual “ready for you” message names the right place. A step marked No message stays quiet whatever you change, and a step you add follows its own line's setting.

A visit that has finished Its steps can't be changed — the dialog says “This visit has finished, so its steps can't be changed.”

Staff can change a visitor's journey — a switch on each line. In Line settings → Staff controls, Staff can change a visitor's journey is on for every line unless you turn it off. On, any staff member at the visitor's branch — including staff who are tied to a different line there — can add, take out, put back and reorder the steps still to come. Staff from a different branch cannot. Off — for a business where every step must happen — only managers and the owner can, and staff see “Staff can't change this visitor's steps on this line. A manager can.” The switch is read from the line the visitor is in right now. Choosing a different counter for a step is never blocked by it.

The counter list is greyed while it's loading — on purpose. An empty-but-usable list would read as “this stop has no counters”, when the truth might be “we couldn't load them”. If it stays greyed, the counters didn't load — close it and open it again rather than assuming there are none.

One thing to watch when finishing Complete now does the normal thing for somebody with a step still to come — it sends them on to their NEXT stop, exactly like Send to next stage. You don't have to remember to use the other button; only the LAST stop actually finishes the visit. If you genuinely need to end a visit early and drop the stops still ahead, use End whole visit — it asks "Are you sure?" and names exactly which stops would be dropped, because that can't be undone.

When a multi-stop visitor misses their turn

Mark them No-show as usual. When they reappear, their tile is NOT “Put back in line” — it's Re-check in.

It returns them to THE STOP THEY WERE AT, at THEIR ORIGINAL PLACE in that queue.
They don't go back to the beginning of their visit, and they don't go to the back.

Why the ordinary “Put back in line” is refused here. A multi-stop visit is one thread with one live place in it. Putting an earlier stop back by hand would give the same person two places at once and lose track of where they really are.

If you try You're told — “This visitor is on a multi-step journey — use their next step instead of putting them back in line.”

Once a multi-stop visit has properly ended, it cannot be reopened at all — if they come back, add them as a new visitor.

Parked at a stop that was closed

When people arrive at a stop while it's paused or full, they don't queue — they're parked, and a Paused tab appears on the Queue holding them. It only exists while somebody is actually parked there.

Resume joins lets them all back in AT THEIR ORIGINAL ARRIVAL ORDER — nobody goes to the back for having been parked, because their join time is never touched.

Priority still outranks the clock, as everywhere else.
You're told how many came back.
Any role can do this, at the lines they work — the person on the floor when it gets busy is the person who needs to be able to stop and restart joins.

The record of one visit

View	What it shows
Their visit — see and change their steps	What is still to happen — the plan.
Their visit, step by step (the clock button)	What already happened — joined, called, served, held, put back — with times in the shop's own clock and who did each thing.

For a file you can keep or send, open Report issue and take Download journey (PDF) from the bottom of that window — it lists when each thing happened, at which line, and who did it.

Only an owner or a manager at that branch sees this button. It isn't shown to staff at all. If you're staff and need the file, ask a manager to take it.