Create Resources

The Create Resources function will allow you to set up the resources that will contain your slots.

 

If you have more than one event you will need to select the event you would like to work with in the pull-down in the middle of the page.

 

 

 

 

 

You can create as many resources as you like. Each resource can hold many slots, but none of the slots can overlap in time on one resource. If you need overlapping slots you will need to create additional resources.

 

Resources can represent a resource in your business, like a mechanic, or a dental chair. For events like flu shots, you should create just one resource even if there will be more than one nurse at the site because the customer doesn't need to specify which nurse.

To spread the appointments evenly throughout the day

To spread the appointments evenly throughout the day, you can do what some of our flu shot providers do. They create a resource and populate it with slots every 10 or 15 minutes. In each slot they allow some number of appointments such that there are not enough slots for all the people they expect. As the slots fill up the popular times during the day will fill up first, subsequent customers are forced to take less popular times. When almost all of the slots are full, the administrator selects the resource and increases the max appts. This technique spreads the appointments throughout the day so that the resources, the nurses in this example, have a steady stream of appointments.

 

Next Steps

Once you have created the Resources, you are ready to Create the Template.