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Allowing multiple bookings for the same time in Microsoft Bookings
Hi, I am trying to setup a bookings calendar that allows multiple people to book the same service at the same time. In this instance it is First Aid Training for a specific day without time incre...
There is a workaround for this - create the number of dummy staff up to the maximum number of 'customers' that you want to book into the session, and assign them all to the service. So if you want 20 seats available at the training you create 20 dummy 'staff'. Once all 20 seats have been booked that date will no longer be available.
Christopher Carter thank you for this discussion, I found it very useful. After reading it, I think I have found a solution that is working for me.
As suggested here, I have created dummy staff, to allow appointments to run alongside each other. To solve the problem of giving each staff member a unique email address, I am using a single, non-Microsoft, email address for all of my dummy staff, but I have created email aliases for that email address. This seems to be working fine.
(The host of your email will probably let you create email aliases, for example this is like creating both mailto:robert@myemail.com and mailto:rob@myemail, and the server treats them all as being the same thing and belonging to the main email address.)