Quote Originally Posted by frisson View Post
Shops usually use a note book or a whiteboard. Includes each ladies name, and the hours of the day (10,11,12,1 etc)
It doesn't matter the mode of booking, the shop just needs the fake name of the punter and the time requested
Then what? Call them up? Message them back? On what app, SMS or WeChat?

The mode of booking is important because the receptionist needs to look in different sources to get the method to contact the customer back.

SMS is the best because they can use the search function that will parse every chat history on the phone. Eg. They can search for "Aki" and get a timestamped list of SMS convos with that word in it.

No such luck with WeChat. There is no search function that can go through all chats. There's only a function to search within a chat once you're in it. So they'd have to go into each chat with a separate john and eyeball it to see if that was the guy who booked Aki (for example). That is going to be mindnumbingly hard to do for a "hotline" type account like theirs.

Then you have the call ins... They can write down the phone number that shows up on caller ID, but I doubt they will go that extra mile. Besides, would you be happy if your mob number was on a whiteboard behind the counter of a brothel, available for anyone to see?