Setting up bookings

Add bookings to a project, and the pages customers book on.

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What is Bookings in TeleportHQ, and what does it add to your site?

What is Bookings in TeleportHQ, and what does it add to your site?

Bookings is the TeleportHQ plugin that lets visitors book rooms, appointments, tables, classes or rentals on your site, with booking pages and a live calendar, online or on-arrival payment, customer emails and accounts, and places to manage every booking in the editor and in your site's admin panel.

How to add bookings to an existing project

How to add bookings to an existing project

To add bookings to an existing TeleportHQ project, open Plugins in the editor's left sidebar, click Bookings and switch on Bookings enabled, then choose what people book, your timezone, your currency and the navigation links in the Activate Bookings window; TeleportHQ builds the booking pages, two sample items, opening hours, emails, sign-in and the admin panel, and the project becomes a web app.

How to create a booking site with AI or a template

How to create a booking site with AI or a template

To create a booking site in TeleportHQ, click + New Project on your dashboard, choose the Bookings card, then generate it with AI by describing your business (or start from a booking template when one is offered); the AI builds the pages with Bookings already on, your first bookable items, your booking rules and your opening hours.

Which pages does Bookings add, and what do customers do on them?

Which pages does Bookings add, and what do customers do on them?

TeleportHQ Bookings adds four pages in a bookings folder (the list of what can be booked at /book, one page per item with a live calendar at /book/<item>, each customer's own booking page, and My bookings at /my-bookings) plus a Bookings tab on the account page, where customers pick a date, book, pay, add the booking to their calendar or cancel it.

How to design your booking pages (layout, filters, previews and rebuilding)

How to design your booking pages (layout, filters, previews and rebuilding)

In TeleportHQ, you design the booking pages on the canvas like any page, and you set the booking list's filters (top bar or left sidebar), search, sort and layout in Booking Page Settings, which opens from the Booking page settings pill on the list or from Bookings → Booking Settings → Booking Page; preview pills fill the customer pages with examples, and Rebuild the booking pages brings back the current design.

How to turn off Bookings

How to turn off Bookings

To turn off Bookings in TeleportHQ, open the Bookings panel's Booking Settings, scroll to Disable Bookings, type "disable bookings" and click Disable Bookings (or switch off Bookings enabled in Plugins → Bookings); the booking pages and their workflows are removed, your items, bookings and settings stay in your database, and the change reaches your live site when you publish.