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# Managing Services
When adding a service, you can set the specifics of that service in the system including name, price, duration and notes besides other settings listed listed bellow
The Services page in SimpleSpa
## Adding Service Categories
Before a service can be added, a service category is required so that the service can fall under it, press the Add Category  button, and you will be able to create a category name, once the category has been added, you can then add a service within that category by navigating to that newly added category listed under
The Add Category Prompt
## Editing Service Categories
To edit any service category, press the  button, this will bring up a popup to edit the name of the category and the color coding (color coding set here will override status color codes until an appointment has been paid/completed), you can also manage Experience Levels which allows you to set experience/custom based pricing which can then be assigned to the staff (please populate all your services before adding experience levels).
If online booking is enabled for this business location; a chain icon will appear and you can get a direct permalink per service category by clicking on the chain icon from this prompt.
The Edit Category prompt
## Removing Service Categories
To remove any service category, it must not be assigned to a provider and no services should be associated to that category
* Remove the service category from any allocated staff in the Staff page
* Remove by deleting or moving the services in the specific category
* The service category can now be removed
## Adding Services
Within the category press the respective  for that category to add a service within that category
The Add Service button
The category dropdown showing the Add Serivice buttons
The SimpleSpa adding service prompt
## Editing Services
To edit a service, press the  button, the new popup will allow you to adjust all the available fields per service selected
