How to Bulk Edit Services
Bulk editing lets you update several services at once changing their colour, online booking status, price, or category instead of opening and saving each one individually.
Step 1: Navigate to Setup
Start by logging into your Pabau account using your login credentials. In the left-hand sidebar, click Setup.

Step 2: Open Services
On the Setup page, select the Catalogue category from the row of setting groups along the top, then click Services.

Step 3: Select the Services to Edit
On the Services page, tick the checkbox next to each service you want to edit. You can select as many as you need from the list — you're not limited to services in the same category.

Step 4: Choose a Bulk Action
Once you've selected at least one service, a toolbar appears at the bottom of the screen showing how many services are selected, along with the available bulk actions:

- Change colour — update the calendar colour for all selected services at once.
- Online booking — turn online booking on or off for the selected services.
- Adjust price — change the price across all selected services in one go.
- Category — move the selected services into a different category.
- Delete — remove all selected services (with a confirmation prompt).
Click the action you need, make your changes, and they'll apply to every service you selected.
NOTE: Click the × at the end of the toolbar at any time to clear your selection without making a change.
How do I turn on online booking for a whole category?
There is no single switch for a whole category: Online booking is set on each service. You can still switch on every service in a category in a few clicks from the Services tab:
- Click All categories just above the list and pick the category you want. You can pick more than one.
- At the bottom of the list, open Rows per page (25 by default) and choose 100.
- Tick the checkbox in the header row of the list to select every service on the page.
- In the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, click Online booking → Enable.
- If the category has more than 100 services, move to the next page and repeat steps 3 and 4.
NOTE: The header checkbox selects the services on the page you are looking at, and your ticks do not carry over to the next page. Apply the change to each page before you move on. Ticking a service that is already bookable online does no harm.
To check you have not missed any, reload the page, click Filter, set Online Booking to Disabled and click Done. Anything still listed in that category is not bookable online yet.
IMPORTANT: A service only shows online if its category is active. A disabled category hides itself and all of its services from online booking, whatever each service is set to. If the Services tab shows a warning that a category is disabled, open the Categories tab, set the status filter to Disabled and re-enable it.
Can I add one aftercare to every service in a category?
Not in a single step. Aftercare is linked to each service, and there is no Aftercare option in the bulk-action toolbar or in the category settings. The quickest way is to link it service by service from the list, without opening each service:
- Turn on the Detailed switch next to Filter.
- Click All categories just above the list and pick the category you want.
- Scroll the table sideways to the Aftercare column and click the first service's cell (it shows None if nothing is linked yet).
- Tick the aftercare you want, then click Done. You'll see Aftercare updated.
- Repeat step 4 for each service in the category.
The list offers your aftercare guides and aftercare email templates. Ticking adds to what's already linked; it doesn't remove anything you didn't untick. Press Esc to close a cell without saving.
NOTE: Aftercare is sent after the service is checked out or the appointment is marked as complete. To see or change everything attached to one service, open it and use the Forms tab — see How to Attach Forms and Messages to a Service.
By following these steps, you can update multiple services at once in Pabau, instead of editing them one by one.
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