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! 

[sidewaysfarm]

Still hoping Square figures out how to do this.  We'd like to schedule tours on some days, and camping on others - both are free so it doesn't make sense for us to create employees and do the $50 workaround.

[branchout]

I would like to join in to request this as well. We have certain services we only do at the end of our day, and for now, anyone who wants to book those services has to contact us directly to book them because we aren't able to restrict when customers are able to book them. This seems to be a pretty important and popular feature request, and something that most other booking services offer.

I was hopeful that the new Resources feature would cover this need by letting us manually set when those resources are available, but no luck. Get on it, Square!

[cambridge]

I'd like information on this scenario too. I want to offer contact free pickups appointments as a service but with different hours to my usual availability. As a sole trader I don't want the expense of adding this as  separate staff member.

Is a work around to create that service only as a separate location?

[Valentina]

That is still the best alternate suggestion, @cambridge.

Feel free to give our Appointments team a call if you want someone to work through your set-up with you one-on-one! ✨