How to disable multiple booking on the same date and time for employee

SupportHow to disable multiple booking on the same date and time for employee
atdhe Staff asked 4 years ago
Hello there, First off, I know that many people ask this question but I still cant seem to find an adequate solution. Here is what I need to setup: I have 1 employee, 1 location and 1 service The service will be offered at 1pm, 5pm and 9pm a service can only be booked by 1 person at a certain time, so you can only have 1 booking at 1pm, only 1 at 5pm and the same for 9pm on any given day. So my services is set for a duration and slot step of 240 minutes, client wants 4 hour slots and the daily limit is not set to anything, the connection is that 1 employee & service & location is available from 1pm till 11pm at night and the slot is set to 1 here. and the busy slots are calculated by worker, service and location in the settings page. But it still allows for a service to be booked twice at the same date and time, how do I prevent this so that only 1 appointment is available at a time, so 1pm accepts only 1 appointment and 5pm only 1 appointment and the same for the 9pm slot. Clearly I must be doing something wrong but please guide me in the right direction to setting this up.    
meryl_lundholm Staff replied 4 years ago

Did you ever get an answer? I am having the same problem.

atdhe Staff replied 4 years ago

Unfortunately not, I had to change plugins since clients do not want to wait forever. Let me know though if you ever figure it out.

meryl_lundholm Staff replied 4 years ago

Thank you for the info that you had to use another plug in. I hope I don’t have to do that, but this is getting frustrating.

1 Answers
smrn78pab Staff answered 6 months ago
I know I am 4 years too late, but I have experienced this same issue which means others may land here looking for help.  For those of you that are the only worker, have many services with different pricing (like myself), what I found as a solution was to change the following: Under settings: Changing "Busy slots are calculated by same:"
To:  "Exclusive by worker" This seems eliminate the ability for any other service to be booked in a time slot that is already scheduled.  Hope this helps! Best, Paul