Booking rules
How far ahead people can book, opening hours, closures, check-in and privacy.
For Properties admins and System admins. If you don't see this in your menu, ask an admin in your organisation.
Open Admin, then Booking rules. Rules apply to every office and take effect straight away for new bookings. Select Save rules when you're done.
| Card | What you set |
|---|---|
| Booking window | Days ahead for desks, meeting rooms, offices and car bays, and extra days for EA / EO and above. Weekends are never bookable. |
| Opening hours and closures | When offices open and close, and public holidays or closures for all offices or one |
| Booking length | The shortest desk, office and room booking, and the longest room booking |
| Fair use | Desk days per person per week, the same desk days in a row, and a floor capacity cap |
| Check-in and release | When check-in opens, when no-shows are released, the grace period for later bookings, and reminder times |
| Privacy | Whether staff can see who booked each space |
Add a closure
Under Public holidays and closures, enter the date, choose All offices or one office, give a reason and select Add closure. People see the reason on the date strip.
Release no-shows now
Release today's no-shows now frees every booking that should have been checked in by now, and emails the people affected.
Find my colleague only shows names when Show staff who booked each space is on.
Last updated 2026-10-20
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