Feature

Appointments

Say when you are free, and visitors book a time. Each booking sends both sides an email with a calendar invite, and the visitor can cancel from a private link.

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Things to try

Book a manuscript surgery

Pick a weekday and a time. The booking is confirmed straight away and the confirmation carries a calendar invite.

Request a reading room visit

This one stays pending until staff accept it, and holds its time meanwhile. Accept or decline it under Appointments in the admin.

Cancel from the link

Every email to the visitor links to a private page where they see the booking, add it to a calendar and cancel it.

Manuscript surgery: booked at once

Thirty minutes, weekdays 09:00 to 17:00 London time, with “Accept bookings automatically” on. It asks one question. Times show in your own time zone.

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Reading room visit: confirmed by staff

An hour on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, with automatic acceptance off, so each request is pending until someone accepts it. Next month has a day off, shown here as a day with no times. It asks two questions, one a drop-down.

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How this page is built

  1. Under Appointments, choose New calendar and give it a name and a key.
  2. On Settings, set the owner, the length, buffer, notice, how far ahead people can book, the location and Accept bookings automatically.
  3. On Availability, add weekly hours and dated exceptions: an opening, or time off.
  4. On Questions, add what to ask besides name, email and message.
  5. Add a Booking block to a page and pick the calendar. Publish.
The Appointments list in the admin, with each booking calendarA booking calendar in the admin, with its settings and weekly availability
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