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Schedule Changes
Creating and editing classes, recurring patterns, capacity, instructors, rooms, cancellations.
25 articles
- How Instructors Block Their Own Availability Instructors can add time off to their own availability schedule directly — vacations, holidays, personal time — without needing an admin to do it.
- How to Block Out Specific Dates or Times Learn how to block out specific dates or times using date overrides. This is useful for holidays, vacations, special events, or temporary schedule changes without affecting your regular availability schedule.
- How to Cancel or Reschedule a Single Class Session vs. Ending a Recurring Series Knowing which action to take prevents accidentally canceling your entire class schedule when you only meant to skip one session.
- How to Bulk Update Capacity and Instructor Two approaches: copy settings from one class to many others (Sync Settings), or apply a capacity/instructor change across all future sessions of a timeslot.
- How to Change a Class Start Time for Future Sessions Only Move a recurring class to a new time slot going forward without affecting past or current sessions.
- How to Change Capacity for a Single Class Session Override the class capacity for one specific date without changing the entire recurring series.
- How to Do a One-Off Event With a Custom Form Set up a standalone event that requires registrants to fill out a custom form — useful for workshops, challenges, or special events with intake requirements.
- How to Rename or Replace a Recurring Class With Enrolled Members Update a recurring class name or swap it out for a new version while keeping existing enrollments intact.
- How to Schedule Recurring Classes (Including Biweekly) Create a class that repeats weekly, every 2 weeks (biweekly), or on any regular schedule.
- How to Set Multiple Instructors on a Class Assign more than one instructor to a class session — for co-taught classes, training scenarios, or when coverage is shared.
- How to Share a Direct Link to a Program or Class Get a shareable link that takes customers directly to a specific class or program registration page — no need to navigate through the full shop.
- How to Create a Class Create recurring class series that automatically generate individual sessions, and edit a class time for a single session or the whole series after it's set up.
- How to Create a Program (Workshop / Multi-Day Event) Programs are multi-session offerings — workshops, retreats, courses, or any event with more than one meeting. Here's how to create one.
- How to Create a Virtual Class Learn how to create virtual or online classes with meeting links. Virtual classes allow you to offer online instruction to customers who can't attend in person, or create hybrid experiences that combine physical and virtual attendance.
- How to Create an Event Learn how to create single events or recurring events that customers can register for. Events can be free, paid, or accept multiple payment methods. Follow the 4-step wizard to create events with all the details customers need.
- How to Duplicate (Clone) a Class Zipper doesn't have a one-click duplicate button, but you can create a new class and copy the payment and registration settings from an existing one — which handles most of the setup work.
- How to Restrict Customer Self-Booking for Appointments Learn how to hide certain appointment types from the customer app so only you can book them, while keeping other appointments available for self-booking.
- How to Set Up an Instructor's Availability Schedule Learn how to create availability schedules for instructors so customers can book appointments during available times. Availability schedules define when each instructor is available for appointments, and appointment types use these schedules to determine bookable time slots.
- How to Set Up Timeslots for Different Rooms at One Location Configure separate class timeslots for multiple rooms within the same physical location — so different classes can run simultaneously without conflicts.
- How to Cancel an Appointment Learn how to cancel appointments and handle refunds. You can cancel appointments with or without refunds, and choose whether to notify customers. Cancellations free up time slots for other bookings.
- How to Cancel an Event Learn how to cancel events and handle refunds for registered customers. When you cancel an event, you can choose whether to refund registrations, and all registered customers will be notified.
- How to Cancel Multiple Class Sessions Learn how to cancel multiple class sessions at once. This is useful when you need to cancel all sessions from a certain date forward, handle holidays, or make bulk changes to your class schedule.
- How to Create a QR Code for Your Event Page Learn how to generate a QR code that links directly to your event registration page.
- How to Manage Event Registrations Learn how to view, manage, and handle event registrations. You can see who's registered, manage waitlists, cancel registrations, mark attendance, and issue refunds.
- Will Updating Appointment Availability Affect Existing Bookings? No — changing an appointment type's availability schedule does not automatically cancel or modify existing bookings. Here's exactly what changes and what stays the same.