Who this is for: studio operators (admin panel) · Product: Podyx V2
Booking settings define how booking works across your whole studio. Get these right once and every room, setup and service inherits sensible behavior, so you are not fixing the same problem in five places.
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🔧 Where to find it
Studio Settings → Booking
⏱ Timing rules
Date and time format, so the page reads naturally for your market.
Minimum and maximum session duration.
Session increments. How much the duration jumps when a client clicks plus: 15, 30 or 60 minutes.
Buffer time. Unavailable time added after a booking for cleanup and reset.
Rescheduling and cancellation rules, with a cutoff for how late changes are allowed.
Unpaid booking hold. How long a slot is held before it is released back to the public.
💡 Increments quietly shape your revenue. Sixty-minute steps push people up to the next hour, while fifteen-minute steps feel flexible and fair. Pick the one that matches how you actually want to sell.
All of these can be overridden per room or per setup when one space genuinely needs different behavior.
📝 Shape your checkout
Booking form. Add custom questions with a headline and optional description, so you collect what you need before the session rather than chasing it after.
Booking notes. Let clients leave comments at checkout: setup requests, coffee preferences, anything useful. Notes appear in the session details afterwards.
File transfer. Enable or disable it, and decide whether choosing a method is required or optional.
📣 Use the confirmation page
Set up a booking promotion that appears once someone has booked: a custom title, text, a button with your own label and destination, and an optional image. That page is the most attentive moment a client will ever give you, so point it somewhere useful: your bundles, your socials, or an agency partner.
📜 Terms and conditions
You can set up both a short and a long version. Both appear during checkout and must be accepted before payment, and each links out to a page with the full text. Treat this as your contract with the client, because that is exactly what it is.
🧠 Why it matters
Consistency by default. One set of rules, inherited everywhere.
Protected turnaround, because buffers are applied without you thinking about it.
Fewer surprises, since cutoffs and holds are enforced by the system rather than negotiated by you.
Better prepared sessions, thanks to the form and notes.
✅ Summary
Set your durations, increments, buffer, cutoffs and unpaid hold once at studio level, then override only where a room genuinely differs. Add a booking form and notes to collect context up front, put something useful on the confirmation page, and make sure your terms are in place before you take money.
Related: Availability · Rooms · Setups · File Transfer