Who this is for: studio operators (admin panel) · Product: Podyx V2
Base services are the main thing clients book, usually the rental of the space itself. Think of how an airline works: the base service is the ticket from A to B. It is deliberately simple and often priced lean to look attractive, because the real margin and flexibility come from the add-ons stacked on top.
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🔧 Where to find it
Admin Panel → Base Services. Services appear in a list with name, base price and status.
🧱 Break your production into sellable parts
Before you build anything, take your production process apart and look for every piece that can be separated and priced on its own: editing, clips, producer time, extra cameras, distribution, behind-the-scenes photos. Keep the base service clean and simple, and turn the rest into add-ons. That is how you compete on headline price without giving away margin.
🛠 What a base service includes
Name and short description. Exactly what appears on the booking card.
Highlight or featured label. Turn it on to add a branded frame and a marketing nudge, like "Bestseller" or "Best value."
A longer description. Use an included versus not included structure, which makes similar services far easier to compare. You can now mix in free-text paragraphs too — see below.
Duration and price, plus an optional discounted price.
Price visibility. You control whether the price shows on the booking page at all.
Upgrades. Add-ons tied to this service that appear the moment a client selects it.
Offer additional services. A switch controlling whether add-ons are offered at all for this service. Turning it off keeps the add-on list intact, so switching it back on restores exactly the same add-ons.
⚠️ Worth checking once. The "Offer additional services" switch did not save correctly until recently, so every service currently shows it as on. If you deliberately turned it off for a service in the past, it did not take — turn it off again.
✍️ Write a description that sells the room
A description is built from sections, and you now have two kinds to work with. Alongside the list sections you already know, you can add a free-text section: a headline plus a paragraph of ordinary prose. Each section header has arrows to move it up or down, so you decide the order.
The practical shape for most studios: open with a paragraph that sells the room, then follow it with a list of what is included and what is not. But nothing forces that order — arrange the sections however your service reads best.
The editor states the limits as you type: 2,000 characters for a section paragraph, and 200 characters for headlines and for each list row.
⚠️ Copy you saved before these limits existed is safe. If a piece of text is already over its limit, you can keep it as it is or shorten it, but you cannot make it longer. So a long legacy description will not be destroyed — you just have to trim it before you can add to it.
💡 Only the first three lines of a description show on the booking page and the home-page carousel before "Read more." Your opening paragraph is what most clients actually read, so put the reason to book there rather than in a list further down.
⚡ Start from a template
Browse templates lets you create a service from a ready-made starting point instead of an empty form. It now also creates the additional services the template includes, so you end up with a working service that already has its add-ons attached. Previously you got the base service alone and had to build its add-ons yourself.
💡 Open the created add-ons and check their prices before you go live. Template defaults are generic and will not match your studio's pricing.
🃏 How services appear to clients
Base services display as cards, and you can choose the layout, for example three or four cards per row. Those same cards can be embedded on your own website, so people can start a booking without ever leaving your site.
🎯 Connect it to a setup, or it stays hidden
A base service must be tied to at least one setup to appear on your booking page. If it is not linked, it will not show up whatever its price or availability. You link services to setups from the setup editor, not from the service itself.
⚠️ If a service is not showing to clients, a missing setup link is almost always the reason, or it is set to inactive.
🛡 Edit freely, your history is protected
Editing a service creates a new version rather than overwriting the old one. Existing bookings and invoices stay tied to the version that was live when they were made, so a price change never rewrites the past. An old invoice always shows what the client actually paid. A service's add-ons are now saved together with the version, so the upgrades attached to a service travel with it instead of drifting out of step.
🧪 The form catches more mistakes
Cross-studio links are rejected. If you link a service, add-on or room that belongs to a different studio, the form tells you so instead of saving something that cannot work.
Minimum session duration is capped at 1,440 minutes (24 hours). Longer values used to crash the form; now they are simply refused.
🗂 Order, show, hide and archive
Reorder services and lead with your best seller.
Active or inactive hides a service from clients without deleting it.
Archive retires it while keeping its history, and you can restore it anytime.
🧠 Why base services matter
They guide clients to the right session with a clear starting point.
They let you compete on headline price while add-ons protect your margin.
They standardize pricing, duration and planning.
They create the upsell moment at the exact point of decision.
✅ Summary
Base services are the ticket clients buy first. Break your production into parts, keep the base clean and attractively priced, start from a template when one fits and check the add-ons it creates, write descriptions that make comparison easy, open with a paragraph that sells the room and order the sections with the arrows, mind the character limits when editing older copy, link each service to a setup, and let add-ons carry the margin. Start with one or two and expand as you grow.
Related: Additional Services · Setups · Rooms · Embed Booking on Your Site