How to Change Your Booking Capacities

How to Change Your Booking Capacities


Booking capacities determine the minimum and maximum number of customers who can book a service at a time. Adjusting these settings allows you to:

✅ Limit or expand the number of customers per session.
✅ Ensure your business operates within its resource or space constraints.
✅ Prevent overbooking or underutilisation of services.

Follow the steps below to adjust booking capacities for your services.


Method 1: Adjust Capacity for a Particular Session

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Step 1: Locate the Session

1️⃣ Click Schedule from the left-hand menu.
2️⃣ Select Calendar to locate the session that needs adjusting.
3️⃣ Click on the scheduled session to open the booking details.


Step 2: Edit Session Capacity

1️⃣ Click the Edit Capacities button.
2️⃣ A window will open displaying:

  • Regular booking capacity (standard bookings)
  • Promotional booking capacity (if applicable)
3️⃣ Enter a value in the space provided to adjust the number of available spots.
4️⃣ Click Update to save the changes.

✅ The new capacity will apply only to this session.

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Method 2: Adjust Capacity for All Scheduled Sessions of a Service

Use this method if you want to change the default booking capacity for all sessions of a service.

Step 1: Access Service Settings

1️⃣ Click Inventory from the left-hand menu.
2️⃣ Selecte Services and locate the service you want to adjust.
3️⃣ Click the Action menu (⋮) next to the service name.
4️⃣ Select Edit to open the service settings.


Step 2: Adjust the Default Capacity

1️⃣ Ensure you are on the General tab.
2️⃣ If your service allows group sessions (e.g., a class), select Multiple Bookings.
3️⃣ A new field will appear where you can enter the maximum number of participants per session.
4️⃣ Click Update to save your changes.

✅ All future sessions for this service will now use the updated booking capacity.

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Notes
When you change the capacity for your regular bookings, your promotional bookings will also be changed since they are "based-off" your regular bookings.

Troubleshooting & FAQs

Will existing bookings be affected if I change the capacity?
  • If you increase the capacity, more spots will be available.
  • If you decrease the capacity, existing bookings remain, but new bookings may be restricted.
    • How do I handle overbookings after reducing capacity?
  • Contact affected customers and offer alternatives (e.g., rescheduling, refunds).
  • Enable a waitlist feature.
  • Consider manually adjusting bookings.
    • Can customers see real-time availability based on capacity?
    Yes, as long as this feature is enabled on the service offered which will automatically adjust slots as bookings are made.
     

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