Rename Stylist to Barber (or Anything Else)
Using Terminology to make Perceny speak your industry vocabulary, everywhere at once.
Perceny ships with salon vocabulary. If you are a barbershop, a nail studio, a clinic, a gym or a tattoo shop, "Stylist" is the wrong word — and it is on hundreds of screens.
Where to change it
Business Settings → Features Configuration → Terminology.
Change the terms and the whole product follows: menus, buttons, notifications, the booking page your clients see, and even the helper text under other settings.
What changes with it
Because the terms are substituted rather than hard-coded, a rename reaches places you would not think to check:
- The left navigation and every screen title.
- Button labels and confirmation dialogs.
- Client-facing booking and kiosk copy.
- Notification and reminder text.
- The helper text under settings — read a Payment Settings description after a rename and it will be talking about barbers.
- Report names and columns.
Saving
Terminology is saved with an explicit Save rather than instantly, unlike the switches on other tabs. That is deliberate: a rename touches every screen at once, and half-typed words appearing product-wide as you type would be worse than useless.
Do it early
Change the vocabulary before you train your team, not after. Once people have learned the interface with the wrong word, the rename creates a week of "where did that go?" — and the whole point was to remove friction, not add it.
Singular, plural and articles
Terms carry singular, plural and capitalised forms so sentences stay grammatical. "Barber", "Barbers", "a barber" — set them all, or you will find a screen reading "add a Barbers".
What it does not change
Terminology renames words. It does not change behaviour, permissions or reporting. A stylist renamed to a barber is still governed by the Stylist role and the Stylist permission tabs — the word on screen changes, the underlying role does not.