How to set up capacity restrictions in your account and how this feature can benefit your organization.
With capacity restrictions, you can now manage the time when equipment can be reserved or checked out by selecting specific time intervals in your account. You’re also able to limit how many people can do this simultaneously.
How to configure capacity restrictions
To set up these restrictions (only visible to admins with the permission and account owners):
- Click Settings
- Click General
- Scroll down to the How would you like to schedule bookings? section
- After making changes, don’t forget to click "Save" on the top right
As soon as the time intervals have been configured in the account any user will be able to make a reservation or a check-out by choosing time slots of 15, 30, 45 minutes, 1, or 2 hours apart.
The time intervals drop-down list will only appear when using Time-based bookings, and once configured, the time interval will be applied to your workspace:
The next step is to choose to limit how many times one timeslots can be booked at the same time.
With this feature, you will also be able to limit the number of people picking up or dropping off gear at the same time.
To configure this, just tick the box on the left side and set the number of maximum bookings that can occur at the same time:
This is what 15 minute intervals would look like for a user:
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