For solo hairdressers, personal trainers, and estheticians, what happens when one appointment runs long?

I keep hearing a version of the same problem from people running a personal care business alone, a hairdresser, a personal trainer, an esthetician, a massage therapist. One appointment runs fifteen minutes over, and the next three clients shift, a supply order that needed to go out that morning gets pushed to tomorrow, and a callback to a client asking about availability sits unanswered until the evening.

I am curious how solo operators actually handle this. Is it a paper booking book, a scheduling app that only covers the calendar part, or mostly memory and catching up once the day slows down?

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