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Set up rooms and equipment

How to create bookable rooms and equipment in Owneli, attach them to services, and let the calendar prevent double-booking a machine.

Updated Aug 14, 2026

Create your rooms and equipment as resources, link them to the services that need them, and the calendar reserves one per booking — refusing to put two appointments on the same machine at the same time. They live under Settings → Scheduling & booking → Resources (the page itself is /resources).

Who can do this: anyone with the appointments — manage capability — it's not tied to a role tier.

How do I create a room or a piece of equipment?

Add the resource

Click the add button and name it the way your team talks about it — "Room 2", "IPL laser", not an asset code.

Pick its kind

Room or equipment, plus an optional free-form type ("Laser", "Chair") — types become a filter once more than one exists.

Save it

The resource appears in the list, ready to be attached to services.

How do resources connect to bookings?

StepWhat happens
You link a service to a resourceDone once, in the service's settings
Someone books that serviceA matching resource is reserved for the appointment's duration
The resource is already takenThe calendar shows it busy and won't double-book it

When staff book manually, equipment already taken at that time shows as busy in the booking panel — see Book an appointment.

If two services can never run at once because they share one machine, don't police it in anyone's head — link both services to the same equipment resource and the calendar enforces it for you.

Reading the list

Each resource row shows how many services pin it — the direct answer to "what breaks if I retire this?". Filter by kind or type, or search by name.

Archiving a resource

Archive rather than delete: history stays intact, and the Show archived toggle brings it back into view.

Check the linked-services count before archiving. Archiving a resource that services still require is how bookings stop being conflict-checked the way you expect.

Common questions

What's the difference between a room and equipment?

Only the category (and its filter). Both behave identically: reserved per booking, conflict-checked by the calendar.

Can one appointment reserve several resources?

A visit with multiple services reserves what each service needs — a room for the facial and the laser for the laser step.

Do resources belong to a location?

Resources are managed in one list for the business.

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Services and pricingBuild the catalog that drives booking and checkout — durations, prices, who can perform what, and per-location overrides.Book an appointmentBuild a booking from the calendar — client, services, provider, time — plus repeats, resources, and per-booking payment terms.