Examples of Resource Configuration Setups

In this article, we provide examples of common configuration setups for services such as boat tours, jet skis, escape rooms, guided tours, and bus services where seats must be shared between different services.

To learn how to create and configure a resource, and to understand how they behave, you can check out our general tutorial here.

Boat Tours: Shared and Private

This configuration explains how to manage the availability of a boat resource that is used for both shared excursions (sold per seat) and private tours (sold as a whole unit). The key process is to create the resource with its total capacity and link it to both services. By setting up a ticket in the private tour to occupy all seats and close the event with the first booking, the system ensures that any reservation in one service immediately blocks the resource for the other, preventing overbooking. 

Jet-ski: Single and Double

This configuration explains how to manage the availability of a jet-ski resource, which is always sold as a whole unit regardless of the number of riders (single or double). The key process is to create the resource with its capacity (for example 4 jet-skis with 2 seats each) and link it to the service. By setting both the single and double tickets to occupy two seats, the system ensures that any ticket reservation immediately blocks an entire jet-ski, preventing double-booking and maintaining precise control over the available units. 

Escape Room: Gamemaster

This configuration explains how to manage the availability of a single Gamemaster resource between different escape room services that share the same time slots. The key process involves creating the "Gamemaster" resource with Quantity: 1 and Seats: 1, as each reservation represents a single session. By linking the services to this shared resource, the system ensures that any booking in one game immediately consumes the Gamemaster's single seat, which automatically blocks the other service for that time slot and prevents the overbooking of the staff member. 

Tour Guide: Shared and Private Tour

This configuration details how to manage the availability of a single guide resource to offer both shared tours (sold per seat) and private tours (sold exclusively). The key process involves creating the "Guide" resource with its maximum capacity and linking it to all the desired services. By configuring the private tour to assign the resource per booking and close availability after the first sale, the system ensures that any reservation immediately blocks the resource for all other services at that time slot. This prevents the guide from being double-booked and precisely updates the remaining seat availability in the shared tours. 

Bus: Seat Management

This configuration describes the two main methods for managing a single bus resource between different services. Method 1 creates exclusivity by checking the "Assign to a single event duration" option; this ensures that a booking on any tour completely blocks the bus for the other service during its duration. Method 2 is used for sharing individual seats between both services, which is achieved by configuring the resource by its total number of seats in the quantity field, allowing the bus to be filled with concurrent bookings from both tours until capacity is reached.