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# Managing Services
Add, edit and remove service categories, and add and edit services.
This page shows you how to set up service categories and the services within them.
When you add a service, you set its specifics, including name, price, duration and notes, along with the other settings described in [Fields and Service Settings](/simplespa-documentation/daily-operations/services/fields-and-service-settings.md).
The Services page in SimpleSpa
## Adding Service Categories
Every service must belong to a service category, so you need to create a category before you can add a service.
1. Click the **Add Category**  button and enter a category name.
2. Once the category is added, it appears in the list below. Go to that category to add services to it.
The Add Category prompt
## Editing Service Categories
To edit a service category, click the  button. In the popup, you can:
* Edit the category name.
* Set the category color coding. The color set here overrides the status color codes until an appointment has been paid/completed.
* Manage **Experience Levels**, which let you set experience-based or custom pricing that you can then assign to staff.
{% hint style="info" %}
Add all your services before you add experience levels.
{% endhint %}
If online booking is enabled for this business location, a chain icon appears in this prompt. Click the chain icon to get a direct permalink for the service category.
The Edit Category prompt
## Removing Service Categories
You can only remove a service category when it is not assigned to any provider and has no services in it.
1. On the **Staff** page, remove the service category from any staff it is assigned to.
2. Delete the services in the category, or move them to another category.
3. Remove the service category.
## Adding Services
Within the category, click the  button for that category to add a service to it.
The Add Service button
The category dropdown showing the Add Service buttons
The SimpleSpa Add Service prompt
## Editing Services
To edit a service, click the  button. The popup lets you adjust all the available fields for the selected service.
The Edit Service prompt
## Related
* [Fields and Service Settings](/simplespa-documentation/daily-operations/services/fields-and-service-settings.md)
* [Assigning Specialties](/simplespa-documentation/daily-operations/staff/assigning-specialties.md)
* [Adding Your First Service & Staff](/simplespa-documentation/get-started/adding-your-first-service-staff.md)
