[CAL-5046] Seats: Check for seats per entire day, not per available time slot

[PeerRich]

A few customers asked to extend "Seats" to be able to "roll-over" capacity.

Imagine this: you have a library with 20 people max. capacity.

Anna books from 9-11am a slot → 19 capacity

Brian books from 11:00am to 12:00 → 18 capacity

Annas booking runs out at 11:00 am → 19 capacity

Cloe books from 11:30am to 4pm → 18 capacity

etc.

With our current Seat system, we simply reduce capacity per slot which does not work with the above example of a "room capacity".

This is much closer to a bouncer at a club that lets people in, the moment someone else leaves. (leave = your booking runs out)

As a visual example:

• if the event-type has a capacity of 5
• then the link is at full capacity at 16:30 to 17:00 because ALL guests overlap during that time

checkbox in settings:

the UI would stay the same, however the capacity is reflected througout the entire day, not per slot:

_CAL-5046

[PeerRich]

use cases:

• booking any type of room with flexible attendance but a fixed room capacity
• coworking spaces
• renting a car (10 cars in the inventory at different times)
• ..?

[PeerRich]

i added the (i) icon and it should link to a cal.com/help page that explains this behaviour given how different it is

[PeerRich]

i think "Share attendee information between guests" should be disabled if active

[Avik-creator]

So in the db we need to add a column with seats and then for the days the user is available the guest will select the time and then seat will be reduced right?

Please do correct me if I am wrong.

[PeerRich]

i just thought about this more and realised we need to add the capacity PER phyiscal location: