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How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

garima — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:35:49 GMT

I am trying to limit appointment booking to certain dates only for a special event. How do Ichoose dates, when setting up appoinments scheduler in Square cash?

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

Tom — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:35:24 GMT

Hey @garima, thanks for reaching out. If this is for select dates, you might want to set up bookable hours as a personal event in your Appointments account. Take a look at this article for next steps.

Hope this helps! If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to bring them up!

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

Meganswanson — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 23:21:48 GMT

I'm trying to do the same thing regarding a special event, restrict dates to one weekend for appointments. I didn't understand how the personal event would allow this. Is there a way to simply open one weekend on the calendar (ie business hours are this weekend only).

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

Sean — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:45:44 GMT

@Meganswanson - There isn't currently a way to do this. 😕 I can definitely see how this would be a useful feature though!

As for how to block out time, when you navigate to the Calendar tab of your Appointments Dashboard, you have the option to Create Appointment. Once selected, if you look towards the center right, you'll see Personal Event. You can use this feature to block out available time. Here's a screenshot:

Hope this helps!

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

capecesmile — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:49:50 GMT

I have the same request, I want to set events that my client can only pick appointments for that date, however it will not let me do that with services. I have events like Photo shoots with Santa that will only be for one day, or a photo shoot at a park that will only be for selected dates, but when scheduling my clients see the full calendar not just that day, which is what I want them to see.

How can I get this to work

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

capecesmile — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:50:31 GMT

Thanks but I can't figure out how to make it available time.........

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

nika — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:48:06 GMT

@capecesmile Are you having trouble following @ Sean's steps listed above?

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

JRobStudios — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 20:00:35 GMT

Did you ever find an answer to this? I'm trying to do the same thing...

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

JRobStudios — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 20:01:22 GMT

It doesn't look like Sean's directions will achieve what we're looking for.

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

isabelle — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:59:19 GMT

Hey @JRobStudios.

I want to make sure we're in the right thread and offering you the right instructions.

What exactly are you looking to do within Square Appointments? Let me know so I can look into this for you.

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

athorneloe — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:04:55 GMT

Did you ever figure out if this was possible to do? Trying to do the same thing. Thanks!

Restrict service availability by date

athorneloe — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:07:36 GMT

Is there a way to restrict service availability to only certain dates/times?

Re: Restrict service availability by date

JustinC — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 19:34:55 GMT

Currently a feature request we're tracking on this relevant thread. Thanks for posting! @athorneloe

Restrict service availability by date

ats_x_evo — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:43:53 GMT

Are users able to see and/or upvote the Square Appointments feature requests? My business would also like this functionality.

Re: Restrict service availability by date

Valentina — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 02:00:11 GMT

Commenting here in this thread is exactly how you can be sure that your voice is heard when it comes to feature requests like this, @ats_x_evo! We'll be sure to post an update here in this thread if something changes in regards to this one.

Assigning services to specific days

Hopaldopal — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:49:31 GMT

Hey does anyone know how to assign services to specific days? Like i want to offer zoom meetings on Thursday but not book my other services then. Anyone familiar with this?

Re: Assigning services to specific days

JustinC — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:54:53 GMT

@Hopaldopal - this is a request we've heard before but I'm afraid setting services for specific dates hasn't been implemented. But this thread provides a workaround. I merged your post to learn more.

Re: Assigning services to specific days

Ns1111 — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:17:58 GMT

Definitely would love to have this option as well. Alteration appointments only on a certain day of the week.

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

jacobcotephoto — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:22:50 GMT

A service that can only be booked on certain days/times is NEEDED SO BAD. I can't understand how this would be hard to implement on the back-end of coding. I would really expect after a year of covid that Square would have added this feature for businesses...

Re: How to restrict Square Appointments scheduling to only certain dates?

DinaK — Thu, 20 May 2021 11:59:01 GMT

I would also like to offer virtual consultations on one specific day a week that can be booked online by our clients.

I came on this thread looking for a how to and it looks as if this feature still hasn’t been implemented.

Hoping squareup will respond to this thread...