How to create a new session
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Creating sessions allows for products to be visible online and booked directly by your customers or by agent resellers in the Marketplace. Sessions also allows you to manage start/end times for your products, pricing, resources, availability and orders.
Note: Click here if you want to simply edit an existing session, or click here to see how to quickly extend a series of sessions for a single product.
How to create a new session
- Click Schedule
- Click Calendar
- Click the New Session button.
Within the Create a new session page:
- Select a Product from the drop down list
- Enter the Next available session start (and end) date and time. For example, if your product has a 2 hour duration, the From date/time will be 28th July 9am and the To should be 28th July 11am.
Tip: At least one of your products must have Fixed dates & times set as a scheduling option in order to create sessions in the calendar. If you can't create sessions for one or more of your products, they most likely have Any date - Accept enquiries for any date or Date not required for booking set up. Click here to learn more.
- Optional: Ticking the All Day box will create all day sessions i.e. 12:00 am to 11:59 pm
Repeating a product's calendar session
If a product's session has the same start and end date/time regularly, you can choose to repeat the session.
Repeating a product's session at intervals by the minute
- Select Repeat minute-by-minute
- Select the recurrence in minutes
- Select the Until date
- Select the days of the week as well as the From and To times
The below example will repeat a product's session every 30 minutes between 9am to 5pm, Monday and Tuesday, until the 31st January 2020.
Repeating a product's session at intervals by the hour
- Select Repeat hourly
- Select the recurrence in hours
- Select the Until date
- Select the days of the week as well as the From and To times
The below example will repeat a product's session every hour between 9am to 5pm, Monday and Tuesday, until the 31st January 2020.
Repeating a product's session every day
- Select Repeat daily
- Select the recurrence days
- Select the Until date.
The below example will repeat a product's session every day of the week until 31st December 2020.
Repeating a product's session on specific days of the week
- Select Repeat weekly
- Select the recurrence weeks
- Select the Until date.
- Choose the days of the week to repeat sessions.
The below example will repeat a product's session every week on Friday, Saturday and Sunday until the 31st December 2020.
Repeating a product's session once a month
- Select Repeat monthly
- Select the recurrence months
- Select the Until date.
The below example will repeat a product's session on the 28th day of every month until 31st December 2020.
Repeating a product's session once a year
- Select Repeat yearly
- Select the recurrence years
- Select the Until date
The below example will repeat a product's session on the 26th January every year until 2025.
Setting a product's session price
When creating sessions, you have the ability to set different pricing. This allows for seasonal prices, click here to learn more about seasonal price configuration.
- Optional: Adjust the default Prices
Setting a product's session availability
When creating sessions, you have the ability to set different availability. This allows for greater control of your inventory on certain dates.
Note: The Availability & Resources sections are both controlled by the scheduling options of the product. Click here to learn more about scheduling options.
Resources
- Click the Resource from the list of resources
Availability
- Set the Availability
- Internal Notes: For internal use only.
- Click the Create session button
Learn more about sessions below
How to edit an existing session
How to extend a series of sessions
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