To keep your rentals from clashing with the studio's regular schedule, Zenamu watches for conflicts between rentals and everything else happening in the same room. This article explains what the system checks, where those checks have their limits, and how your clients see rentals.
What the system checks
Conflicts are evaluated by room. When someone wants to rent a space, Zenamu checks whether anything else is happening in the same room at the same time:
Classes and Courses assigned to the same room,
Appointments in the same room,
other rentals of the same room.
If it finds an overlap, it won't offer that slot for booking, and it warns you when you're approving. Busy times don't show up in availability for the renter, so they only ever pick from free slots.
Back-to-back blocks aren't conflicts. If one rental ends at 12:00 and the next starts at 12:00, both go through without a hitch.
Where the checks have limits
Conflict checking has one important limitation worth keeping in mind:
Events don't have a room assigned in Zenamu, only a text address. So they don't block a booking, but an overlap with an event shows up as a warning when you're approving, and you judge it yourself.
Classes with no room filled in are skipped in conflict checks, because the system doesn't know where they're held.
If you have an event or a class like that scheduled in the same space and time as a rental, you'll need to catch the conflict yourself. That's why we recommend always assigning a room to your classes. It's the only way Zenamu can watch for conflicts on your behalf.
The check works the other way around, too. When you schedule a Class or Course in a room at a time when a rental is confirmed, Zenamu warns you about the clash so you can sort it out by rescheduling or cancelling the rental.
Other limitations
Bookings in 30-minute steps — a rental's start and end have to land on the hour or half-hour, for example 6:00 or 6:30. So the length is always made up of half-hour blocks.
One listing per room — each room can have only one active rental listing. If you want to rent out several spaces, create a separate listing for each.
What clients see in the public schedule
A confirmed rental shows up in your studio's public schedule as a busy slot labeled Rental. So your clients can see the room is taken at that time, but they can't see who booked it or why. The renter's details stay hidden.