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Training ABCOM
Brass Contributor
Oct 20, 2017

Can Bookings limit appointments to a date range?

Is there a way to set a "Special offer" so that people can book themselves  but I only want certain dates shown, not a calendar with all dates.   Any help much appreciated.   Steve
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Gabriel_Valdez
Bronze Contributor
Oct 23, 2017

Hi there!

 

There are no controls to do this inside Bookings but there are workarounds for this. It depends on how you have your reservation page set up.

 

The easiest way I would recommend would be to create an "Offer" Bookings page. This allows you to create one Bookings calendar only for that event, and then you can block the times/days that do not work for you. You will have to manually block (using Time-off) after the day your offer is available, since Time-off blocks the staff member's calendar, I would recommend using a free Outlook.com account to set up that staff member.

 

Let me know if this helps, I am happy to explain in more detail if needed.

Thanks!

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Training ABCOM
Brass Contributor
Oct 30, 2017

Hi Gabriel

 

I've just looked at this and fallen at the first hurdle!  

 

When you say "create an 'Offer' Bookings page," I'm not clear on that. Can I have more than one Bookings page? A "normal" one and several 'Offers' ones?

 

Kind regards

 

Steve

 

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    Gabriel_Valdez
    Bronze Contributor
    Oct 30, 2017

    Hi Steve,

     

    Yes, you can create as many Bookings pages as you want/need.

    From the Bookings page, click on the down facing arrow next to your calendar name (i'm attaching a screenshot for reference). You can see that there is the option to "Open" or "New". With new, you will be able to create another calendar completely independent from the one you already have. The "Open" option gives you a window that allows you to search for previosuly created calendars in your tenant (you can see all the calendars but will only be able to open the ones you manage or have been added to).

     

    Hope this helps!

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      Training ABCOM
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 01, 2017

      Hey Gabriel!

       

      Thank you, this workaround does it . . . I need to now make sure the user is happy with it ;o)

       

      From my point of view it's a clever way to get the system to work for us. With my extremely limited knowledge of Bookings I would never have thought of this without you, so, thanks again!

      Steve

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        Gabriel_Valdez
        Bronze Contributor
        Nov 01, 2017

        Hi Steve,

         

        I received an email stating that your Bookings calendar was loading events for 10 mins. I couldn't find the thread but if you still have that issue. Could you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing?

         

        Bookings doesn't take that long, even when setting Exchange for the first time.

        Thanks!

         

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