How your service list is ordered (and why there are no categories)

Q: How the list is actually ordered

Two screens, two orders, and they are not the same: Where, Order. Your public booking page, Alphabetically by service name. Dashboard → Services, The order you created them in. There is no drag-to-reorder control. The public page is the one your customers see, so the alphabetical order is the one that matters.

Booked has no service categories. Your public page lists services alphabetically, so the name is the ordering tool.

There are no service categories in Booked. There is no "Manage categories" screen and no group header on the public page. If you came here looking for one, that is the answer, and the rest of this explains what to do instead.

How the list is actually ordered

Two screens, two orders, and they are not the same:

Where	Order
Your public booking page	Alphabetically by service name
Dashboard → Services	The order you created them in

There is no drag-to-reorder control. The public page is the one your customers see, so the alphabetical order is the one that matters.

The name is the ordering tool

Because the sort is alphabetical, a naming convention gives you grouping for free and costs nothing:

Cut — Skin fade
Cut — Scissor cut
Cut — Kids
Colour — Full head
Colour — Roots

Everything beginning "Cut" sits together, everything beginning "Colour" sits together, and the family name is the first thing a customer reads. A numeric prefix works the same way if you want an order that is not alphabetical — 1. Haircut, 2. Beard, 3. Colour — though it is uglier and customers do notice.

Keep the list short instead

The better answer for most shops is fewer services. A page with six services needs no grouping; a page with twenty-five needs more than grouping would fix. Retire the ones nobody books — set them inactive rather than deleting, and they vanish from the public page while the bookings that used them stay intact.

Per-staff pricing is not a category either

If the same haircut costs different amounts depending on who does it, do not create three services. Set one service and give each staff member a price override on their own row — see Assign services to a staff member.