Calendar not showing correct times for one day
I created a calendar that my company will use for our booth at an upcoming conference. The first day of the show, the booth is only open from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m., but not matter what I do, the time displayed when you select a service on that first day is from 8 a.m. - 6 a.m. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? It makes absolutely know sense.
Main bookings calendar not showing busy blocks from outlook
When we first started using bookings earlier in the year, if you had an appointment in outlook it would show a block for the staff being busy. This is necessary so when manually adding appointments we don't double book a staff member. Now however, those blocks are not showing. Outlook does appear to be pushing the info to bookings, but they only show if you go into the "Calendar and Availability" section of the staff details screen (multiple clicks outside of the main calendar). Going there every single time to book a staff member is not practical. Does anyone know how to get the main calendar to show when staff are busy again?Restrict Service to a specific user
Hello! I am wondering if it's possible to restrict days a service is available for specific staff members? I have a Service that is available Monday-Friday....but some members of staff only work parttime for this service and are therefore cannot be shown as available for that service only on certain days. This would be fine if they only needed to be available for that service as we would then just edit their availability on the calendar at staff level. HOWEVER, the issue comes as these staff members do work on the other days but for different services and therefore they do need to be available for the full days - but they can't be available for that service on specific days. i.e. Joe Bloggs works Monday and Tuesday and available only for Service #1. Joe Bloggs works Wednesday-Friday and available only for Service #2. Jane Doe works Monday-Friday and available for Service #1. Both Service #1 and #2 are open to book by the same end user and therefore, ideally, need to be part of the same Booking system. Is there a way to restrict a service to specific days but only for specific staff members?Assign different service patterns to Staff in Bookings
Hello! I wonder if someone can help me work out if this is possible or not! We have a Bookings system that say we have Service 1 that can be booked from Monday through to Friday by anyone with various members of staff. However, I have a member of staff who only works for this service, parttime and therefore is not available for Service 1 on say a Monday and Tuesday. BUT they do still work with different services on those days, so I cannot restrict their working days via the Edit Staff option as they should still be available for other services. Is there a way I can restrict Service 1 for that member of staff only? So that it is only available for them on a Wed-Fri? I do not want to have to create separate Services for members of staff if it can be helped. But I also cannot see a way to select when services can be made available for specific members of staff. TIA!Time off for Booking schedule
I have created a Booking Calendar for a training plan that will last 4 weeks. I am not available on one of the days due to a conference in middle of the calendar. I see documentation about Time Off for a Booking but don't see where this is done. Is this still available?
How to Filter or Block Non-Business Emails in Microsoft Bookings?
Hi community! 👋 I'm currently using Microsoft Bookings to manage appointment scheduling for a project, and I’m looking for a way to restrict or filter out personal emails (like @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, etc.) from making bookings. What I've Tried So Far: Required custom field asking users to "Enter your business email" Manual review via "Admin Approval" setting Filtering in Outlook after the booking is created But these are still more like workarounds. Is there any built-in feature or third-party integration that can: Block bookings unless the email is from a business domain Auto-decline free/personal email addresses Or at least flag them in the calendar? Bonus Context: I run a digital experience site that blends online booking and content storytelling — one of our examples is this fun article combining real-life stories with booking-based workflows: 🔗 https://tirafficridergame.com/evel-knievel-mining-incident/ It’s not a direct tutorial, but we're expanding into more productivity-related content. Any help or plugin tips would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! 🙏 — [Raza] Let me know if you want to change the topic or make it more technical, SEO-focused, or tutorial-style.
Redirect Email Responses & Double Booking Hiccups
I created and am the organizer of a booking page for my team. It is great in allowing me to adjust who will take client calls & meetings depending on who is in the office. The problem is when someone accepts a meeting or responds to it because one of my team members did not call them, that email goes to me as the organizer. Is there a setting where it can go to the team member who will be taking the meeting? If not, Microsoft can you adjust? Secondly, some of my team members had had problems of double booking. There seems to be a delay for new meetings, either created by the team member or through another booking link of theirs, to pop up on their calendar. Thus, someone can see availability at a given time and book a meeting when it may have been booked up during the time it took them to fill out the booking form. If others are having the same problem, let me know!MS Bookings glitches across timezones
Hello, thanks for reading. Problem: Staff calendars not appearing properly across time zones in MS Bookings In Microsoft Bookings, staff create recurring Free slots in Outlook to mark availability for schedulers. These slots always display in the business’ timezone, regardless of the viewer’s timezone. However, all other calendar items (including Bookings appointments, as well as outlook events) shift to the local timezone of the calendar viewer. This mismatch causes schedulers to place appointments that appear to fit to them, but staff in other timezones see them shifted outside the intended Free slots, creating conflicts and misaligned bookings. Example: Business timezone = MST. Scheduler timezone = MST. Staff timezone = PST. 1. Staff creates a recurring Free slot from 12:00–1:00pm PST (which shows correctly as 1:00–2:00pm MST in the shared business calendar). 2. Scheduler (in MST) books a 1:00pm MST appointment, believing it fits inside the Free slot. But on the staff’s Outlook calendar, the booking appears at 12:00pm PST, which is outside their Free slot, and at an objectively different time. I have verified that the staff and scheduler have correctly identified their timezones via Outlook on the Web > Settings > General > Language and time > Current time zone.
Syncing calendar with Bookings for a shared email account
Hi! I'm trying to create a booking system for a 1-user database. I used my institution's general email account, which is not associated with a particular staff member. I created the shared Bookings page. I added the general email account to it as a staff member. I made myself unavailable for the Bookings page, so that all bookings will go to the general account. However, I am not able to sync the manually added calendar events with Microsoft Bookings. In other words, if I manually add a booking to the general account's calendar, it doesn't show on Microsoft Bookings that the slot has been taken. I believe the solution is to select 'Events on Office calendar affect availability' under Edit Staff. However, the option is greyed out. I asked my institution's IT department, but they were unfamiliar with this. As it is a shared mail box, they don't think it has an admin. My questions are, is it possible to sync a calendar with Bookings for a general account without an admin? If yes, how do you do it? I hope this makes sense. Please let me know if anything is unclear and I will try to explain more. Thank you very much in advance for your help!