The hours of availability settings page is where you can customize when your venue is open and choose to just show the hours relevant to your users.
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You can also set all day defaults for spaces that are typically booked for the entire day.

Hours of Availability

Scheduler Display Hours

To learn more about making exceptions, just having a booking system for a few days (conference, event, etc.), and more check out the FAQs.

Hours of availability are your venue's opening times. If bookable spaces have different opening times select 'Add more hours'. Create up to 200 rules for various spaces, hours, and days of the week.

Times outside of these hours will be displayed in a darker shade of gray on your scheduler. Regular users will not be able to book outside of these times. However, System users, such as Booking Admins, can create bookings outside of the hours of availability!

You likely have times of the day at which bookings will never occur (e.g. very early in the morning or late at night). You can remove these superfluous hours from the scheduler day mode by specifying just the time range you want to show. Optimizing the display of the day mode means you and your users won't have to scroll past irrelevant hours... particularly helpful for mobile devices!

These settings let you enable "All day" checkboxes to make booking spaces easier, especially for spaces typically reserved for the entire day.

An "all day" booking covers the full hours a space is available. By default, these checkboxes are hidden from the booking form.

You can click on the dropdown and select spaces that you want to have the all-day checkbox visible and checked by default or unchecked by default.

Note that if you do not select a space in either setting, the checkbox will be hidden from the booking form.

System users can create unavailable type bookings to block out dates and times. This might be for public holidays, one-off closures, or maintenance times. Use the repeat/recurring feature to block out several days in a row or a pattern of calendar days. For example, create a full-day, all-space, yearly-repeating booking of the unavailable type on January 1 to make New Year's Day unavailable each year. To modify existing unavailable bookings, locate the booking series by clicking the chevron on the booking. Select "View/Edit details" and update the series to exclude the desired dates.

Yes! Block off all of the other days with an unavailable type booking that repeats all-day, every day, for a long time. Make the days you would like to take bookings exceptions to this repeating series. Send your users to the booking page for your event date (https://________.skedda.com/booking?viewdate=YYYY-MM-DD). To set this up:

To do this, change your hours of availability to the extended hours. Then block off the extra hours on all of the regular days with a repeating unavailable type booking (shown above). Alternatively, System users can make bookings for users outside of your hours of availability. If needed, you can also modify existing unavailable bookings by accessing the booking details in the scheduler and updating the series to include or exclude specific dates.

Yes, you can apply the "Unavailable bookings" method to individual rooms or spaces. Simply select the relevant spaces when creating or modifying the bookings.

You can easily update or delete Unavailable bookings by accessing the booking details in the scheduler.