⚡️ Setting Up Your Flashbook in Porter
Porter’s Flashbook lets you upload your flash designs, organize them into a storefront, and control exactly how clients can book them — either by direct booking or booking requests.
This guide walks through everything you need to do to get your Flashbook live.
📍 Where to Find Flash Settings
🎨 For Artists (Mobile App)
Open the Porter mobile app
Go to Profile
Tap Flashbook
That’s your Flashbook dashboard — everything below happens here.
🎨 Upload Flash Designs
From the Flashbook dashboard, tap the "+" icon in the top right
Upload a design image
Add:
Title (required)
Short description (optional)
Tags (optional — helps filtering on your storefront)
Set up your variants
You can enable or disable any of the 4, pre-defined variants (small, medium, large, and extra large). For each variant, enter a duration and a price estimate. If you have Direct Bookings enabled for a particular flash design, you must add at least one variant with a duration and price estimate in order to save the design.
Tap Save
✅ Your design is now live in your Flashbook storefront (unless archived).
🗂️ Reorder or Archive Designs
🔀 Reorder (drag & drop)
If you want certain designs to show first:
Go to Flashbook dashboard
Tap "Re-order flash"
Drag it into the order you want
Your storefront updates instantly.
🗑️ Archive / Unarchive
Archiving removes a design from your storefront but keeps all info saved.
Open a flash design
Hit the 3 dots in the top right and then Archive
To bring it back:
Open Archived Designs → Unarchive
✅ Great for seasonal flash or designs you want to pause.
🔁 Repeatable vs. Single‑Use Designs
Inside each design, you’ll see a Repeatable toggle:
✅ Repeatable ON
Unlimited bookings
Great for “always‑available” flash
🚫 Repeatable OFF (Single‑Use)
Once booked, the design is automatically marked claimed
No one else can book it
Clients may see “1 Left / Limited Edition” on that design
✅ Use for one‑offs, limited drops, or convention exclusives.
📅 Direct Booking vs. Booking Requests
Each flash design can be set to one of two modes:
⚡ Direct Booking
Clients can book instantly without waiting for approval.
To enable:
Open a flash design
Set Booking Mode → Direct Booking
Add at least one size variant (required)
Add duration + price estimate per variant (required)
Clients will:
choose variant
choose date/time
pay deposit (if enabled)
book instantly
📝 Booking Requests Only
Clients submit a request first, and you review + accept like normal requests.
To enable:
Open a design
Set Enable Direct Bookings -> Off
Clients will:
select variant
fill out your booking form (flash‑filtered)
wait for your reply + acceptance
✅ Great if you want more control before scheduling.
📏 Size Variants (Small / Medium / Large / XL)
If you allow flash bookings, you can offer size options per design.
Open a flash design
Go to Variants
Toggle on sizes you want to offer
For each enabled size, enter:
Duration
Price estimate
⚠️ If Direct Booking is enabled, at least one variant must be on, and both price + duration are required.
💰 Deposit Rules (When Clients Pay)
You can control deposit behavior at two levels:
Flash default deposit rule
Per‑design override
Deposit rule options
No deposit
Flat deposit ($ amount)
% of price
Full payment up front
How to set your Flash default
Flashbook dashboard → Settings
Tap Deposit Rules
Choose your default rule
Save
Override for a specific design
Open the design
Go to Payment Rules
Choose the rule for that design
✅ Clients pay deposits during booking, just like normal appointments.
🗓️ Flash Availability Settings
Flash can be bookable:
every day like normal appointments, or
only during specific flash windows
To configure:
Profile > Flash Availability
Choose how flash is allowed to be booked
Availability options explained
⚡ Restrict to Flash Days Only
Flash is bookable only on scheduled Flash Days
When you add a Flash Day, normal appointments will not be able to be scheduled on that day. And if you restrict flash to Flash Days only, customers booking Flash will only see your flash days as available.
✅ Best for big flash drops or shop events.
📆 Restrict Days of the Week
Choose which weekdays flash can be booked
(ex: Fri/Sat only)
✅ Good if you want flash to live on certain slower days.
✅ Final Checklist to Go Live
Before you post your Flashbook link, confirm:
✅ Designs uploaded + reordered
✅ Repeatable toggles set correctly
✅ Booking mode set per design
✅ Variants added (if direct booking)
✅ Deposit rules set
✅ Flash availability configured
✅ Storefront preview looks right