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# How to create and assign teammates in Cowlendar

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**This is a Premium feature of Cowlendar.** You need to upgrade your plan if you want to use this feature and you are a free user of Cowlendar.
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This is perfect regardless of whether a 2 person team or even 100+ people team.
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#### There are a few key things to understand about teammates in Cowlendar:

* Each service that will have teammates attached needs to have "availability per teammate" enabled in the services settings.
* Teammates will have it's own limit.
  * This means that If you have teammates John, Bill, Mary attached to a service then each of them will have there own limit.
    * So if someone bookings John for 1pm on January 10th then Mary and Bill will still be available to be booked then.
* Teammates can have multiple services attached and the teammates limit will be shared between them.
  * This means that if teammate John has Service A and Service B attached then when someone books John for Service A at 1pm January 1 then John will have -1 slot in Service B.

Steps to create a teammate and attach it to a service:

1. In your Shopify admin dashboard look at the left hand panel and click on **Apps.**
2. Click on **Cowlendar.**
3. Click click on **My Service.**
4. Click **Edit** on the service you want to attach to a teammate.

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5. Click on the **Availability** tab.

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6. Set the service to **Availability per teammate.**

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7. Looking at the left side of your Shopify admin dashboard click on **Team.**
8. Click on Create a teammate.

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9. Fill out the teammate information.

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10. Click on **Create.**
11. Click in **Availability** section
12. Click on **Select Services.**
13. **Select the service** you enabled availability per teammate on.

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15. **Adjust the availability** to match this teammates schedule.

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The availability for the service attached will be based on this! It will no longer use the availability inside of the services settings. This means that each teammate will have a specific availability when selected in the service
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16. Click **update.**

Now if you go to the product page of your service and open the calendar you will see the availiability is based strictly on that teammate.

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But why is there no teammate selector?

Great question! The reason for this is usually one of two things:

1. There is only one teammate attached to that service which means there is no need for teammate selection.
2. Teammate selector is disabled in Apps > Cowlendar > Settings > General Settings like the screenshot below.

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Now you are ready to build your awesome team!