Block off certain dates or times (unavailable dates)

Need to take a break, close for a holiday, or block time for something else? You can easily block off certain dates or time slots so customers can’t book during that period.

There are 2 ways to block off time on the booking app.

  • Use Block specific dates setting

  • Set up employee availability

1. Use Block specific dates setting

Steps to manage

1. Open the app > click Settings > click Block specific dates tab > click Add a blocked date

3. Set the time range you want to block, select services to apply the blocked date

4. Click Save

Check how it works on the online store. The blocked dates will be greyed out on the booking form.

2. Set up employee availability

The available time of the service depends on employee available.

If you want to edit the available time of a specific service. you need to

  • create employee

  • edit availability time of Employee to block off certain dates or time

  • assign employee to the service

Steps to manage

1. Open the app > click Services on the left menu > open the service you want to edit

2. In the service detail > Availability > click on the employee name or create a new employee > it directs to employee detail

Another approach: Open the app > click Employees > open the employee detail you want

3. In Availability section, click on a date you want to edit > click Unavailable button block the date

4. Select date(s) to apply the time

  • click Apply to Monday Jan 1, 2024, to apply the time to a specific date only

  • or click Apply to all Mondays

  • or click Apply to multiple > select weekdays you want to be unavailable

5. click Save

Check the result on the front store.

Tutorial video

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