Set a Holiday In Your Booking Diary

SettingsUpdated 23 Sep 20262 min read

Workshop Software allows you to create a holiday for your workshop in the Booking Diary section. This holiday will make all mechanics unavailable for the day so nothing can be booked.

  • Click on Admin (1) in the left hand sidebar menu and then click Schedule.
A series of screenshots of Workshop Software's left hand side bar menu, numbers indicate to click Admin then Schedule.

  • In the Schedule card click the star icon in the top right and then click Create Holiday.
A screenshot of the Schedule card, the Star icon and Create Holiday menu option are highlighted.

  • Input the Date you would like the holiday to take place.
  • If you want this date to be blocked out only in your online booking diary to prevent customers requesting a booking on a holiday date make sure the Public Booking Diary only toggle is set to Yes.
  • Click Save to create the Holiday.
A screenshot of the Create Holiday Pop Up, the Save button is highlighted

  • You will see in your Schedule calendar the date you have set as a holiday will have all mechanic’s not available. In the below example we have set the 8th of June as a holiday and all mechanics have a yellow bar with their work hours blocked as unavailable.
A screenshot of the Schedule card after a holiday has been created. The Mechanic boxes for Monday the 8th contain orange bars indicating they are unavailable to work.

  • In your Booking Diary the monthly view will show each Mechanics bubble for the Holiday already full.
A screenshot of a single cell from the Booking Diary's monthly view, each mechanic's time bubble is full.

  • The Day view will show yellow bars indicating that time period is unavailable.
A cropped screenshot of the Booking Diary's day view, each mechanic calendar has an orange bar indicating they are unavailable for bookings.

  • If you attempt to allocate a booking on that date you will receive a red error banner message saying Mechanic is unavailable during that time period.
A screenshot of the Update Event Time and Pop Up that says "Mechanic is unavailable during that time period"

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