Resource vacations are a way to tell Planyo when a resource is available for reservations. The only difference is that Planyo uses an opposite approach -- instead of saying when the resources are available, Planyo assumes they always are and you need to specify vacations, that is, periods of unavailability.
Vacations are one-time or
recurring periods when a resource may not be reserved (e.g. because of
reparations/renovation, because of public holidays or because the owners go on vacation). You can
enter vacations (one-time, or recurring weekly, monthly or yearly) in
site
settings / resource vacations.
Please note that administrators can still reserve during vacations. They will be, however, presented with a warning message and the reservation will be marked as conflicted. Of course normal users cannot reserve during vacations.
If you enter vacations for a period with existing reservations, you will see the list of reservations plus you will need to confirm if you still want to add the vacation, in which case all existing reservations affected will be marked as conflicted.
See more about conflicts here.
If you'd like to often make manual updates to the availability for specific dates, you should go to
Availability page. This will let you check and set availability on a calendar view for any given day / hour.
Another quick way to enter vacations visually is on the
Schedule page. Simply click and drag across the desired resource and time period and in the context menu choose 'block period'.
If you need a more flexible way of determining availability (e.g. specifically for given customer), you can see
the unavailability message section in Q181.
Vacations for accommodations / overnight rentals
Vacations for overnight rentals are marked in the same way as for day-based rentals, except you should keep in mind you're blocking the night starting on given date (and not the day as such). If given date is marked as vacationed, it means that departure is possible on that day but arrival is not. For example, if you mark July 10th as a one-day vacation, a customer will be able to reserve a period with departure on July 10th while no customer will be able to reserve a period with arrival on July 10th. Another example: if you add a 3-day vacation from July 10th till July 12th, then departures are possible up to July 10th and arrivals are only possible on July 13th.