---
title: How to set up the AI writing helper in Salon Booking OS
description: An optional AI writing helper, off until you set it up with your own AI provider’s key. Everything works without it.
url: "https://osdots.com/docs/salon-booking-os-the-ai-writing-helper/"
updated: "2026-11-01"
category: Product Documentation / Salon Booking OS by OsDot™
---

# How to set up the AI writing helper in Salon Booking OS

The AI writing helper drafts a text for you beside a few fields of the administration: a service's description, the About page's text, a website page's text and an FAQ's answer. You ask for a draft, read it, and insert it into the field or discard it. Nothing is saved until you save the page as usual.

**It is off on a new site and does nothing until you set it up** with your own account at an AI provider. Everything in Salon Booking OS by OsDot™ works without it: you write your texts yourself, as before.

## Setting it up

You need an account and an API key at an AI provider; the **Provider** list on the settings page shows the providers you can choose. Your provider bills you directly for what the helper uses; Salon Booking OS by OsDot™ adds nothing.

1. Open **System → AI writing helper** (the owner).
2. Tick **Enable AI writing helper**.
3. Choose the **Provider**. Leave **Model (blank: the first listed for the provider)** empty, or type a model name your account can use. The page lists the models known for each provider; model names change over time, so check your provider's own list.
4. Enter your **API key (your business's own)**. It is stored encrypted and never shown again: the field then says "Stored securely". To replace it, type a new one; to remove it, tick **Remove stored API key**. Changing the provider without a new key removes the old key.
5. Keep **Writing helper** at **On**, and set the caps: **Drafts a month (all accounts)** (200 on a new site), **Tokens a month (all accounts)** (300,000) and **Seconds to wait for an answer** (30).
6. Choose **Save settings**, then **Validate saved configuration** to check the key with the provider. No text is made by the check.

**AI → AI usage** shows the month's drafts and tokens against your caps, whether the helper is on, and the last 50 drafts: when, who, the outcome, the provider and model, and the tokens. No text is kept.

## Using it

Who may use the helper is a permission: *Use the AI writing helper* (the owner's on a new site; see **Roles and permissions**).

1. Beside the field, choose **Draft with AI**.
2. Under **What should the draft do?**, choose **Improve the wording**, **Make it shorter**, **Make it friendlier**, **Make it more formal**, **Fix spelling and grammar** or **Something else (say what)** with a one-line note.
3. Tick the context you want it to use, such as the service's name.
4. Choose **Draft**. **Cancel** stops waiting.
5. Read the draft. Choose **Insert** to put it in the field, or **Discard**. Then edit it as you like and save the page.

## What the helper never does

- It never saves, publishes or sends anything by itself.
- It never sends a text, note or context that contains an e-mail address or a phone number: the page warns you and **Draft** cannot be chosen.
- It does not show a draft that contains a web address, an e-mail address or a phone number.
- It never falls back to another provider, or to made-up text, when your provider does not answer: it says so.
- It stops at your monthly caps, and at six drafts a minute per account. Two drafts at the same moment can never both pass the last of your allowance.

While the helper is off, the owner sees a short hint beside the field with the way to the settings; other accounts see nothing. Without JavaScript nothing shows, and the field works as before.