A Name Copied, Not Typed

Every therapist on this site has a profile, and every profile opens with her name. When a guest knows who they would like to see, they write that name in the booking message. The reply then says whether she is free at that hour. It sounds simple, and usually it is. But names can change on the way from a profile page to a message, and one changed letter can point to another profile.

How a name changes

There are several ways it happens. A guest reads the name, remembers it, and types it later from memory. A phone keyboard in another language suggests a spelling it knows better. Autocorrect changes a name it does not recognise into a word it does. A name pronounced in one language is written in the spelling of another. None of these is careless. They are simply how names travel.

The message

A guest wrote a short, clear message with one name in it. The spelling was close to two names on the roster. It could have been either, with one letter changed. The reply did not choose. It wrote back both names, spelled exactly as on the profiles, and asked which one the guest meant. The guest checked, copied the right one and sent it back. The rest of the booking went quickly.

The fix is to copy

Open the profile of the therapist you would like to see. Highlight her name at the head of the page and copy it. Paste it into your message. That is all. A pasted name has no typing mistakes, no keyboard suggestions and no autocorrect. It is exactly the name on the profile.

If you cannot copy, for example because you are writing on another device, you can also paste the address of the profile page. The last part of that address is her name in simple letters. Either way, the reply knows at once who you mean.

If you have no name

Many guests do not have a name in mind, and that is fine. Write who is free, and the reply will say who is free at your hour. You can then look at those profiles and write back the name you choose. The choice is always yours. Nothing is decided for you.

Languages in the profile

Each profile also lists the languages she speaks. For a guest whose English is limited, this is useful: a shared language makes the visit easier, and the list is there so you can look for one. The languages are written simply as the languages she speaks. They say nothing about where anyone is from, and they are not ranked. If you share one of them with her, you can say so in the message.

Your own name

The same care helps with your own name. Write it as it appears on the passport or ID card you would show at the door, in Latin letters. If your name is usually written in another alphabet, use the spelling from your passport. It is not a test, and nobody checks the spelling against anything. But a booking made in your own name, spelled one way from start to end, is easy to follow if you book again.

When the therapist you named is not free

Sometimes the name you write is not free at your hour. The reply then says so, and says who is free instead, if anyone is. It does not choose for you. You can pick another name from those who are free, choose another hour to see the one you wanted, or leave it for another day. The therapists page has every profile, if you want to look again before you answer.

Two names in one message

A booking for two therapists, or for two guests, has two names in it, and the same care applies to both. Paste each name on its own line, so they cannot run together. If you are booking two therapists and only know one name, write that name and then who is free, on the next line. The reply then tells you who else is free at that hour, and you choose the second name yourself. Each profile shows the figures for two therapists as well.

A small habit

Copy, do not type. It works for names, for street names, for crypto amounts and for anything else where one wrong letter changes the meaning. It is the one habit that helps almost every part of a booking, and it needs no English at all.