Square Appointments - allowing certain services on specific days only?

[SweetRepeat]

Without adding a staff member (and so upgrading at $50/mo) to split services offered, is there a way to specify services only bookable on specific days?

We need service "A" available M-W / F-Sat and service "B" available only on Thursdays.  I am the only staff and providing both service A and B.  

[#2]

Hi @dbaileyphoto - thanks for taking the time to give context to your situation. I think I am understanding you here, but if my answer seems to miss the mark - please let me know! 😅

While service based availability would be considered a feature request, there would be a work-around in this case. You could create an "Employee" and name it after the service you are looking to offer. This "Employee" could be tailored to have availability on specific days, while your normal service could have offered availability on separate times. 

I hope this is helpful! I will be sure to pass along your feedback to our Product Team. 

[#3]

Hello @beauty4600! This is a really good question. So we don't have a setting to limit this automatically, but I do have a couple workarounds.

You could create multiple staff members and name them "Women AM week 1" and "Men PM week 1". Then you would create personal events for each staff member to limit when the appointments could be booked. 

The only downside to this is you'll end up paying $50 dollars a month since you would have to setup 4 staff members in your case. 

My other suggestion is to create the services and make sure they're very detailed about who can book and when. Then set your Reservation Guarantee so you have to accept all incoming appointments so you could vet each one. This one requires a bit of manual work and you would have to check it regularly, so you could free up booking time if an appointment was booked incorrectly. 

If you still have questions please feel free to reach out! 

[bfbistro]

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: Re: appointment services

I need to know how to make services available on certain days. So my brunch service that can be booked online needs to be available for Sunday and Dinner service needs to be available for Friday and Saturday. Right now it shows that a customer can book Brunch for Dinner hours on Friday and Saturday since we are open.

[Valentina]

Hi there @bfbistro 👋

I've moved your post over to this thread where @AshleyK addressed that this is currently a feature request. Stay subscribed here if you'd like to be notified when new posts are added to this thread.

[rootedwellness]

This question is specific to appointment scheduling.

I have certain appointments that I take as phone calls from home and other appointments that are in-person. I am a 1 person business with 1 location. Can I restrict a specific "service" to Mon-Wed and other services to Thurs-Fri?

[AdamB]

Thanks for your post, @rootedwellness.

We don't have this specific option right now, so I'm merging your post into a feature request about this. There is a potential workaround on that thread that you can try which might help you limit different services to different days, though.

[rivas8409]

Has there been any traction on this?  The ability to offer certain services at specific times/dates seems like a pretty important feature to have available. 

[Hadleytats]

I'm trying to offer a service for booking on weekdays with a certain price, and the same service on weekends at a different price.

The best I've been able to do is create two services, at two different prices, but I see there's the issue of a customer accidentally booking a weekday service for a weekend and vice-versa.

Is their a more elegant way to go about doing this?

[JustinC]

@Hadleytats - hmm, a couple suggestions:

Use the workaround you've adopted and add something like WEEKEND ONLY in the service title priced for the wknd to differentiate the two prices for your clients.  

Or check out the workaround Joe listed above on this thread I moved you to. 

[tiffanyrodel]

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: Can I block certain services at certain times?

I offer both massage and facials. For my own reasons, I prefer my first appointment of the day to not be a facial. Is there a way to block clients from scheduling that service at that time? 

[Valentina]

This is currently considered a feature request, @tiffanyrodel - I've moved your post to this thread where others have expressed interest in this capability.

In the meantime, the best solution in this situation would be to use the workaround suggested by @Joe:
"...create an "Employee" and name it after the service you are looking to offer. This "Employee" could be tailored to have availability on specific days, while your normal service could have offered availability on separate times."

I hope this helps!

[4leaftom]

I'd like to add to the need for this feature request.  It seems really silly that you can't assign a schedule to certain services.  This seems like a big miss.  I understand the workaround to create new employees and assign them to services - but that would require a subscription to do - if you are just a single user.