Right now, Special Days only work at the General level if staff and services do not override them. Because staff availability has the highest priority, global blackouts do not apply when any staff member has regular working hours.
For facilities like ours, where:
multiple coaches have individual working hours
services depend on specific staff
the entire facility needs to be blocked during certain dates/times
…it becomes extremely time-consuming to manually enter every blackout date/time for each staff member individually.
Please add a feature that allows us to create Global Special Days or Global Blackouts that will:
override staff availability
override service availability
apply facility-wide automatically
block all staff members at once
remove time slots from the booking calendar regardless of individual staff schedules
This feature should effectively say:
“The facility is closed during these hours. No booking of any kind should appear.”
Facilities with multiple staff (baseball academies, gyms, training centers, clinics, etc.) frequently have dates where the entire location is closed or unavailable.
Entering 20–50 blackout rules separately for each staff member is not efficient and creates room for errors.
A true global blackout feature would save hours of admin work and prevent accidental availability.
Add a toggle for “Apply to All Staff Members” in Special Days
Or a “Global Blackout” module that bypasses staff/service overrides
Or allow syncing special days across staff automatically
Any of these would solve the issue.
Thank you — this feature would make BookingPress dramatically more efficient for any facility with multiple staff members.