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Group Bookings in MS Bookings
Hello 🙂 I was just wondering if anyone's got any further on the Group Booking feature? Having taken another look at the Group Bookings information on the Define your service offerings in Microsoft Bookings page, it looks like the group bookings are all handled manually from the bookings calendar rather then a self service page where people can register which is what I was expecting and hoping for.
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Once you've set up the appointment on your calendar, you can add users to the service and send them an email invite.
Has anyone else been able to get the feature to work for them? If so, I'd love to hear how you're making it work for you 🙂
philmaynard_wap I was able to make this work by creating a new service for the specific event and customizing "Availability" using a combination of the start and end date and custom hours. Then, when anyone picks that service, it will only show the date/time as available until all participant slots have been taken. It's not really intuitive to set up, but with the above tweaking, it worked to set it up as a self-service rather than me having to invite participants.
- Can I get a more detailed description of the steps you took to make this work for you? Thank you.
Kreera_House That's it! You've got it!!! Thank you do much, this was driving me crazy! I've tried so many combinations but this worked for me - at least as much as I can expect it too!!! It's still annoying that when you go to the page is doesn't automatically jump to the available day if it's scheduled within the next month. Still, it's almost there. For anyone who's interested, I've attached a long image of the options I tweaked to get mine to work following the advice from Kreera_House I've not tested it completely to there may be other tweaks to be made - especially around the online meeting settings and some of the messages sent out.
You're welcome philmaynard_wap ! Your settings look good to me.
Turning on Online Booking adds the "Teams Meeting Info" of the assigned staff member into the meeting invites sent to the participants. It requires that the staff member is enabled for Teams meetings. If you're still on Skype, it would probably insert a Skype meeting link.
- Thanks. We're currently thinking about this for specific events that we'll be including a manual link too - either Teams, Microsoft Live Events, or Zoom. Thanks again 🙂
