We love hearing from you, and many of you definitely made your voice heard on our new User Voice page over this past year! So as the top requested feature from the User Voice Forum, I’m very happy to announce that we’ve included a new feature for adding holidays to your calendar in the 2017 release!
Some of you may not know this, but we have clients all over the world in various countries! Because of this, we can’t just flip a switch to add all US holidays to your calendars, but what we did was provide you with a great method for importing a list of your customized holidays for your country!
To do this, we’ve re-done our special calendar events maintenance and renamed it Special Calendar Events and Holidays. To access this maintenance list, click Maintenance > General > Special Calendar Events and Holidays. From here, you can manually add in any holiday or special event that affects your studio or you can import a customized Excel Spreadsheet of your events.
We also wanted to help make the import process as smooth as possible, so we already created some spreadsheets with a list of some major holidays. You can find them here. After downloading the list, you can edit it however you want and add in any holidays you celebrate that may not have been included in the spreadsheet!
Finally, with each holiday or special event, we’ve given you the ability to enter whether this event should affect your open or closed hours. For example, you can say that you are closed on this day, or that you have standard business hours on this day, or maybe you have special hours on this day (e.g. you’re only open for half a day.)
Also, keep your suggestions coming! I truly wish we could implement each one we’ve received! There’s no better way to get feedback for what features to include than coming directly from our clients who are out on the frontlines. Make sure to visit our User Voice page regularly to not only submit your own suggestion, but also to vote for other suggestions! The more votes we receive on a suggestion, the more likely we’ll implement it!
Click here to watch a video on using Holidays
Click here to learn more on using Holidays
Click here to download Holidays for your country