Steps
Open a booking type's availability settings
Priority is set per booking type, alongside its other rules.
Choose a priority
Low, medium, or high. Higher-priority bookings can displace a hold made by a lower-priority one.
A guest books the lower-priority link first
Their slot is held, but flagged as displaceable by anything higher priority.
A higher-priority booking comes in for the same time
Schedulera books over the hold instead of showing the slot as unavailable.
The displaced hold gets resolved automatically
A background sweep reconciles it, so you don't have to manually clean up a bumped hold.
Tips
- Give a booking type low priority when you're fine losing that slot to something more important, an internal sync you'd move for a client call, for example.
- Two links at the same priority never displace each other, only a strictly higher priority can bump a hold.
Frequently asked questions
Does the guest who gets displaced know what happened?
The slot is reconciled automatically; the original hold is resolved rather than left as a silent conflict.
Can two low-priority bookings compete for the same slot?
No, only a strictly higher-priority booking type can displace an existing hold; equal priorities can't bump each other.