Calendar View for Rentals in Sparkforge

The Rentals Calendar View is a visual timeline of every booking and listing. Spot occupied slots, open windows, and overlaps across listings or variants without bouncing between screens.

What the Calendar View covers

• All bookings across listings, days, and weeks at a glance.
• Filter by category, listing, booking status, and payment status.
• Create bookings inline.
• Open and edit existing bookings in one click.

Scheduling types

Rentals is a dedicated scheduling type, separate from Meetings and Services. Each type shows its own bookings, blocked slots, and filters to keep operations clean.

• Meetings — sales calendars, classes, personal/round-robin/collective scheduling.
• Services — service businesses with variations, add-ons, and staff-specific pricing.
• Rentals — multi-day bookings, inventory tracking, listing variants, time-based pricing.

Manage scheduling types in Agency Settings. If only Rentals is enabled, the type selector hides automatically. With multiple types enabled, a dropdown at the top of Calendar View lets you switch.

How to access

1. Go to Calendars → Calendar View.
2. Pick Rentals from the dropdown.
3. Toggle Day, Week, or Month. Click Today to jump back to the current date.

Layout

Listings panel (left)

All listings and variants in a collapsible list. Expand a listing to see its variants and match them with active bookings.

Calendar grid (center)

Each booking is a colored block. Hover for a tooltip with customer name, listing, duration, and status. Click to open Booking Details.

Status colors

• Light Blue — Booked
• Blue — Active
• Green — Completed
• Red — Canceled
• Gray (unfilled) — Unconfirmed

Manage View panel (right)

Filters and display preferences. Use it to narrow the calendar by listing, category, or status.

Manage View filters

By type

• All — bookings and blocked slots.
• Bookings — rental bookings only.
• Blocked Slots — manually blocked time and third-party imports.

Filters

• Listings — pick specific listings or variants.
• Categories — Apartments, Vehicles, Equipment, etc.
• Status — Unconfirmed, Booked, Active, Completed, Canceled.
• Payment Status — Pending, Partially Paid, Paid.

Use Search to find listings or categories fast. Click Clear All to reset.

Create a booking from the calendar

Method 1: + New button

1. Click + New in the top right.
2. Fill in customer, listings, duration.
3. Save. The booking shows immediately and syncs to Appointments View.

Method 2: Drag to create

1. Click and drag across future dates or time slots in a listing row.
2. Release to open the booking creation panel with start and end pre-filled.
3. Complete details and Save.

Drag-to-create only works on future dates. For today or past dates, use the + New button.

Blocked slots

Blocked slots are time periods when a listing is unavailable. They display differently from active bookings. Add them manually or sync them in from third-party platforms. A car in maintenance, for example, gets a blocked slot so no bookings overlap.

Best practices

• Use Week View for daily operational clarity across multiple listings.
• Hover over bookings to preview without leaving the calendar.
• During peak season, lean on Category and Status filters to cut noise.