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Offer alternatives when boats are fully booked

Keep bookings moving even when a boat is taken. Smart alternatives suggest another boat, time, or date - so your customer stays in the flow and your calendar stays full.

Most dead ends never happen: the form already greys out dates, docks, and boats without availability before anyone clicks. Alternatives catch whatever slips through.

Offer different times and dates​

If no boats are available at the requested time, we suggest nearby time slots or another date.

How it works:

  • First, we look for alternative times on the same day.
  • If none fit, we check the next day, then the next week, and so on.

Because nobody enjoys playing phone tag about availability.

Suggest another boat from the same category​

We treat boats in the same category as valid substitutes. If Model A is booked, we can offer Model B from that same category.

To enable, do this:

  1. Assign each boat to a category
  2. Enable alternatives for the categories that should suggest other models

Activate alternatives

Example: Put "Speedboats" together. If Speedboat X is booked at 2:00 PM, the system can suggest Speedboat Y at 2:00 PM.

Turn alternatives off​

Prefer to keep choices simple? Turn off automatic suggestions per category or globally on the alternatives page.