The local appointment candidate now chooses Any available staff from the same
availability rules used to offer booking times. A person must be assigned to the
service, active in the venue and available for that service, option, location
and time. Their actual price override is included in the quote.

Existing paid bookings retain their original assignment and payment operation
when retried. This does not change staff access, collaboration architecture or
public-team visibility. Room-only services are not turned into staff services.

This is code under review, not a live feature announcement. Public booking
selection, independent named-booking controls and the Business, Consumer and
Branded app companions remain in progress. No hosted configuration, customer
booking, payment, notification, deployment or app publishing was performed.

See the [shared contract and remaining work](../api/APPOINTMENT_CHECKOUT_SNAPSHOT_CONTRACT.md).