Calendar should skip days not checked as available and show next available days for "date range"
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Zach Pevnick
There should be a feature so that it will allow the next ___ available days when filling out the date range. For example I want people to be able to book the next two days I have availability. I have availability M-F. So on friday it is showing no times to be booked because it is only looking at saturday and sunday even though I say those aren't available. On friday it should show monday and tuesday in this example.
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Eden Brownlee
Core Platform & Core Admin - Under Review 3-4 Years
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This has been under review for years with multiple duplicate requests. It is a widespread issue affecting many businesses. It appears the issue may have been misunderstood previously, so I am requesting a full review.
Request
Businesses need the ability to set the number of bookable days in advance using either business days or available days with bookable slots.
Current setting is Calendar - Settings - Booking Rules - Date Range. This only sets how far into the future bookings can be made from todays date.
The problem
Date Range counts calendar days, not working days or available days. Most businesses do not operate on weekends. Because weekends are still counted, the system does not consistently show the correct number of bookable days.
Examples
If the goal is to always show 3 bookable days:
On Monday you see Tues, Wed, Thurs - correct.
On Thursday you only see Friday, because Saturday and Sunday are counted even though they are non working days.
Correct behaviour needs to show Friday, Monday, Tuesday.
This forces businesses to manually adjust Date Range on Thursdays, Fridays, weekends, public holidays, or when days book out. This creates ongoing manual work across all accounts.
Proposed solutions
Option 1 - Preferred
Add a simple checkbox next to Date Range called Count bookable days only. The system would count only days that have at least one available slot until the defined number is reached. This solves the issue in most scenarios without added complexity.
Option 2
Introduce a Business Days setting allowing definition of business days and bookings X business days in advance. If this option is chosen, Option 1 should also exist as both serve slightly different purposes.
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Mariah | FG Funnels Support Team
We are using the calendar on one of our pages and have it set for people to book within four days because if we go to three and they look on a Friday they won’t see any availability, since we marked Saturday and Sunday as unavailable ( unchecked the boxes ).
It would be awesome if there was a way to have the calendar show the next 2 available days, so if you looked at the calendar on a Friday, and we don’t take calls on Sat/Sun - next call would be Monday or Tuesday still?
Right now people can book up to 4 days out, and while this works for Friday, it does not work so well for Monday - Thursday.