I am setting up services for hourly rental bookings at a photography studio with 1 hour increments. The studio is open 7 days a week with a different rate per hour for weekdays (M-F) and weekends (Sat-Sun).

I have a service category for for Weekday Rentals and Weekend Rentals.

My questions is how can I limit the days available for booking for each service category.

In other words, I want it to only show Mondays through Fridays in the booking calendar when the customer has selected a Weekday Service and only show Saturday through Sunday for Weekend Service.

I was also curious if there is a way to link to checkout for a specific service without the client having to go through the entire process.

For example, I have a list of services with a book now button next to each one. I would like for the button to take them to the booking page but skip step 1 as they would have just selected the service they want to book.

Thanks in advance for your help with this.

Hi Chris,

The availability of a service is directly tied to an employee. 

You will need to set the availability of the employee assigned to the service in question.

I think you will need to create 2 amelia employees to accomplish this: 

• 1 employee for the weekday service, 
• and 1 employee for the weekend service, 
• setting each employee's availability on the required service days.

Here's how we did it:

Employee #1 Name: John Doe
email: johndoe-weekday@somedomain.com (forwarding email to [email protected])
work hours: mon-fri

Employee #2 Name: John Doe
email: johndoe-weekend@somedomain.com (forwarding email to [email protected])
work hours: sat-sun

Since an employee cannot have the same email as an existing employee, we chose to create forwarding email address to the employee's primary email address.  We did this through our hosting account which is also where are email is hosted.

I hope this helps.

Richard

FYI: I am an Amelia user like you, and not affiliated with the company.