Tours·Booking Management

Booking Management

How to add, edit, delete, and restore bookings — and how to limit how long guides have to check one in.

Adding a Booking

There are two ways to add a booking to a tour slot.

Method 1 — Quick Add

Expand a tour slot and click Add booking below the existing bookings. Date, time, and language are inherited from the slot — only the booking's own details need filling in.

Fields

Customer name

Defaults to "Walk-in" — overwrite it with the guest's actual name.

Platform *

Which platform the booking came from. Defaults to Manual.

Adults

Number of adults booked. Minimum 1.

Children

Number of children booked. Minimum 0.

Check In & Create (green)

Creates the booking and immediately checks it in, using the adults/children counts entered above as the checked-in counts.

Create (gray)

Creates the booking without checking it in. Both buttons are disabled until a customer name is entered.

Method 2 — Create Booking Button

Click Create Booking at the top of the Tours page (visible to Admins and Managers) to open a booking form without needing an existing tour slot — the slot is found or created for you.

Fields

Customer name *

Required.

+ Add phone number

Optional. Reveals a phone field once clicked.

+ Add email address

Optional. Reveals an email field once clicked.

Tour *

The tour this booking is for.

Language *

The language the tour will be conducted in.

Date *

The date of the tour.

Time *

The start time of the tour.

Private tour

Toggle to mark the underlying slot as a private tour. Off by default.

Platform *

Which platform the booking came from.

Adults

Number of adults booked. Minimum 0, defaults to 1.

Children

Number of children booked. Minimum 0.

Guide (€)

What the guide is paid for this booking, if anything. Entering an amount here also marks the booking as having guide tips.

Organization (€)

What the organization is paid for this booking, if anything.

Guide note

Optional internal note for guides, added via the "+ Add" link.

Editing a Booking

Click any booking row inside an expanded tour slot to open its Details panel.

Fields

Customer name / phone / email

Editable by Admins and Managers; read-only for guides. Phone and email each start collapsed behind a "+ Add" link, and once filled show quick actions — call/WhatsApp for phone, copy/send email for email.

Platform, booking code, received date

Read-only — where and when the booking came from.

Platform note

Read-only. Only shown if the source platform sent one along with the booking — this is not something you write, it comes from the platform.

Guide note

Editable internal note, same "+ Add" / "Edit" / "Hide" pattern as the create forms.

Tour, Language, Date, Time, Private tour

Hidden by default — click the pencil icon in the panel header to reveal and edit them. Private tour is Admin/Manager only.

Guide (€) / Organization (€)

Admin/Manager only, also behind the pencil icon toggle.

Attendance confirmation

"Will attend" / "Won't attend" buttons (Admin/Manager only) recording whether the guest confirmed ahead of time. A status pill next to them — Confirmed / Declined / Not confirmed yet — is visible to everyone, and reflects a WhatsApp reply automatically if pre-check-in messaging is set up.

Check-in: booked vs. checked-in counts

The Check-in section has its own adults and children counters — these are not the same numbers as what was originally booked. Each shows the original booked count struck through (e.g. 2) next to the editable checked-in count. The first time you open a booking that hasn't been checked in yet, the checked-in counters simply start out equal to the booked counts — from there you can adjust them up or down (e.g. only 1 of 2 adults actually showed up).

Checked in by

A dropdown of organization users, with "Not checked in" as the first option. Picking a user marks the booking checked in by them; picking "Not checked in" unmarks it — there's no separate uncheck control.

Check In & Save (green)

Only shown while the booking isn't checked in yet. Saves every field on the panel and marks the booking checked in — if no one was picked in "Checked in by", it assigns you automatically.

Save (gray)

Saves every field on the panel. Only touches the checked-in status/counts if you actually changed the "Checked in by" selection or the checked-in counters — leaving them untouched won't undo an existing check-in or overwrite its counts.

Deleting & Restoring a Booking

Open the booking's Details panel and use the trash icon in the bottom-left of the footer (Admins and Managers only). Deleting is non-destructive — the booking is only marked canceled, not permanently removed.

Where canceled bookings go

Each tour slot's booking list has an "N canceled" link below the active bookings — expand it (it becomes "Hide canceled") to see everything deleted from that slot.

Restoring

Click a canceled booking to open its Details panel (it shows a "Canceled" badge in the header), then click Restore in the footer.

Limiting the Check-In Window

In Settings → General Settings → Booking Check-In, toggle Restrict Check-In Time for Guides on and set a Maximum minutes after tour start (1–1440, default 30). Once that window has passed, the Check In & Save / Save buttons in a booking's Details panel become disabled — for everyone except Admin accounts.

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