Recurring appointments in MS Bookings

[JEBrownrigg]

Agreed, the ability to add recurring appointments would be a game-changer. We did testing with Bookings for a research project but cannot use it without the ability to make recurring appointments.

[Miles_Derksen]

yes I could not agree more - we can not use the bookings calendar until this option is available - it seems like it should be an easy add-in?  Just setup Cortana schedular but just found out it is being discountinued in Sept 2023. Other solutions?

[obrienar]

Agree, this would be a tremendous improvement. We may have to stop using it without this. It makes it pretty untenable for the schedules we're trying to manage.

[thayes2021]

This would be a useful feature to add please

[CrashedDisk]

Been looking at this to book equipment out and for users to book time with the tech support team at our school. This would be really useful and is the one feature it seems to be missing at the moment. If this goes well looking to use it for other departments too.

[StevenBlgh]

We are running a non-profit neurorehabilitation centre for children. We wanted to make the bookings convenient for our clients (and save time on our site). Since we are already signed up for Office 365 business, the Microsoft bookings seemed a good choice as everything was integrated and in sync. Unfortunately, the bookings turned out to be a nightmare for our team, as NOT even the admins could set up recurring bookings. Setting up appointments for each client manually requires a lot of time that we could spend on more critical tasks. It is ridiculous how Microsoft didn't make at least the admins able to manage such things since 2020! The cherry on top, Microsoft disabled the Microsoft UserVoice service, so we cannot even join others to request the recurring booking feature. Such disappointment.

[IAMDY]

We're an educational institution and we use Bookings for our buses, boardrooms, and other specialised areas. Upon occasion, we'd need to book out a space for 1 or 2 terms (semesters) so creating recurring bookings is an absolute necessity. Please Microsoft look into this with some urgency.

[eaholmes]

Agreed! We're an educational institution as well and need the recurring feature for students to be able to reserve study rooms. We schedule weekly tutoring appointments in these rooms and need to be able to make them recurring. We cannot use Bookings until this is a feature. It's too much time to make the appointment 16+ times to have it go the entirety of the semester. 

Bookings needs a recurring feature, at least on the admin side.

[LisaKerr]

I've just started to schedule 12-week coaching packages with clients so first time I've realised that recurring meetings aren't available in Bookings. 
I agree with all the other comments here that it's absolutely ridiculous that this isn't a feature.
Now I'll have to start looking into paid alternatives, possible Calendly as that seems to be popular but how frustrating that it's not available within the paid MS subscription I have.
Come on Microsoft, sort this out please!

[Phil Detweiler]

Useless to me without this feature. No user would accept having to create recurring appointments manually in 2023, lol. What a joke...

[Zosner]

Come on, bring on recurring appointments, please. A very common need. 

[zsuraski]

I supervise my university's accessible van service, and we're trying to transition away from paper schedules. We've been limited for quite some time, as we can't get the approval to use any other scheduling service. Since the university already has contracts with Microsoft, this seems to be our only option, but recurring bookings are a necessity. Almost every other 3rd party service we've looked at has the option to do something like that, I can't imagine why Bookings doesn't.

[ownthecall]

After arriving at the same question others have here, I learned today the Bookings app is linked to the Outlook Calendar. I'd use the Outlook Calendar to book re-occuring events. Separately, I'd use the Bookings app to allow to the public to access a (public) calendar, but those bookings will also appear in the Outlook Calendar. For example, in the image attached, the 8 AM item is a weekly re-occuring event I created in Outlook Calendar, while the 10 AM item was booked by someone else via the Booking app.

This seems to be what people here are asking for. Hope this helps.

[IAMDY]

@ownthecall we've had to use that as a workaround for a while now but it only serves to blockout the time from being booked. So we might as well just use a calendar then, and forget the "booking" aspect. Sucks that there's been no need or want to fix this. 

[Hightower840]

I have found a way to use Bookings, and set up a Recurring Meeting. 

Book your time in Bookings. Once the event has been added to your calendar, right click the entry in the calendar, an select "Duplicate". You can then use the options in the pop up window to make the entry recur on a schedule you choose, until an end date you choose. Make sure you save by clicking "Send" in the upper left. This blocks the time in Bookings, and places a recurring entry in the Calendar.