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public booking court restrictions

Jim Longo 4 months ago in Public Booking updated by Annie Broom 1 week ago 2

Feature Request: Granular Restrictions for Public Bookings

Current Limitation Presently, the system only allows for time-of-day restrictions. While we can create a specific "Membership Type" for public bookings, we cannot restrict those bookings to a specific court or a set number of daily slots.

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The Problem Our goal is to pilot this program by offering one court for four specific time slots per weekday. However, because court-specific restrictions are not currently enforced, the system opens up our entire inventory. Instead of the intended 4 daily slots, we are effectively offering 20 (5 courts × 4 hours), which is far beyond our management's comfort level.

Proposed Solution To make this program viable, we need the ability to set a daily maximum number of bookings or enforce specific court allocations for public membership types. Our board has approved a limit of 3 to 4 hours per day; without the tools to enforce this, the program is too "wide open" to implement.

Impact This feature has received the most enthusiastic response from management to date. It represents a significant opportunity for the club, but we require these administrative controls to ensure it doesn't negatively impact member court availability.

Key Requirements

  • Court-Specific Restrictions: Ability to limit certain membership types to designated courts.
  • Daily Booking Caps: A "Max Bookings per Day" setting for specific membership tiers.
  • Resource Allocation: Finer control over the total volume of public access to prevent over-booking.
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We wanted to close the loop on this request: we don't have plans to add Prime Time or reservation-based restrictions (court/day caps) into Public Booking. This is intentional — Public Booking is meant to be a flexible revenue channel, and we'd recommend managing usage through your pricing structure (e.g., higher visitor/public rates) rather than hard caps, so you're still capturing value when a member books outside their member profile.

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