The advanced settings give you more control over how your Booking Page behaves. You can completely turn off the Customer-facing page, which is useful for pausing public bookings, performing maintenance, or enhancing security. You can also specify whether the system automatically adjusts selected booking dates when unavailable dates are within the selected range.
Learn more about the advanced settings for turning off the Customer-facing reserve page and booking widget, as well as auto-adjusting availability dates, with step-by-step instructions.
New to the Booking Page? Read the first article in this series for an introduction to the Booking Page.
Accessing the features mentioned in this article
Where can I find this feature using the top menu?
- Manage > Layout > Booking Page
What more do I need to use this feature?
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Admin permissions to configure Booking Page options.
Which Checkfront version supports this feature - classic items, classic products, or both?
- See inline instructions regarding availability.
The Disable the Customer-facing reserve page option under the Advanced setting allows you to turn off the hosted Customer Booking Page (Customer > Customer Booking Page) and website-embedded Booking Widget (Manage > Integrations).
With the setting selected, you can only make bookings through manual Staff bookings or the back end of the Checkfront API.
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Use case for turning off the reserve page Use this when all public bookings must pause without removing the website embed code. This disables both the hosted Booking Page and embedded widgets, but Staff and API bookings remain possible. |
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Setting to consider |
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Pause selected products only |
Set those products to Staff Only
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Block defined dates/times
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Product closure, with the booking-edit limitation clearly noted.
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How to configure advanced settings to turn off the reserve page
- Go to Manage > Layout > Booking Page.
- Scroll to the Advanced Settings section.
- Select the Disable customer-facing reserve page checkbox.
- Click the Save button.
- Test your Booking Page. If turned off, the public page and embedded widgets should no longer display booking options.
This setting is available with both products and items.
Auto-adjusting available dates
With the Auto-adjust to selected dates setting, you can choose to display the nearest available date range when the Customer selects an unavailable one.
For example, a Customer selects December 24 - 28; however, December 26 is sold out, so the system displays the dates as available and changes the date range to December 24 - 25.
- If you have turned this setting off, when a Customer or Staff member selects unavailable dates, the product is shown as unavailable on the booking pages.
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If you have turned this setting on, when a Customer or Staff member selects unavailable dates, the system adjusts the end date to the next available date, provided the start date is bookable.
Note: The system also checks for any applicable booking rules from the booking modal. If any applied booking rules cannot be met, the system displays the relevant error message.
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Auto-adjusting dates This setting applies only to products, not to items. |
How to configure advanced settings to auto-adjust dates
- Go to Manage > Layout > Booking Page.
- Scroll to the Advanced Settings section.
- Select (or deselect) the Auto-adjust to available dates within selected range (only applies to products) checkbox.
- Click the Save button.
How to turn back on public bookings and the reserve page
- Go to Manage > Layout > Booking Page.
- Scroll to the Advanced Settings section.
- Deselect the Disable customer-facing reserve page checkbox.
- Click the Save button.
- Test your Booking Page. If turned on, the public page and embedded widgets should display booking options.
Next Steps
The following article explains how to manage introductory text for booking page layouts.
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