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Manifests

Print today's bookings, share a public link with staff.

By the end of this guide, you'll have a printable PDF of your service bookings for today (or the next 7 days), and a public link your staff can open from their phone without logging in.

Before you start

What you'll need

  • A service under Services with at least one booking
  • ~3 minutes
  • Optionally: a tablet or printer at the front desk
What you'll achieve
  • A downloadable PDF run sheet
  • A public, rotatable URL anyone can open
  • Confidence about which guests are coming when

Manifests are for services, not places

Manifests are designed for time-slot services — tours, sauna bookings, table reservations — where you need a quick "who's coming, what time, how many people" sheet for staff.

For nightly stays (places), there's no manifest today — use iCal export instead. Staff can subscribe to your .ics URL in their phone calendar app and see the next 30 days of guests automatically.

Two ways to get a manifest

From the calendar

Sidebar → Calendar → pick the service → Export manifest (PDF) button (top-right). Pick Today or This week — the PDF downloads immediately.

From the service detail

Sidebar → Services → your service → scroll to Public manifest link. This is where the shareable version lives.

What's in the PDF

A table sorted by date and time, listing for each booking:

  • Date and time — the slot's start and end.
  • Guest name.
  • Pax — guest count.
  • Total with currency.
  • Phone (if set).
  • Notes (if set).
  • Custom field answers (only if the guest filled them in).

The header has the service name, the date range ("Today (May 1, 2026)" or "Week May 1–7, 2026"), and a generation timestamp. Dates are formatted in your account language; Czech uses d.m.Y, others use Month j, Y.

There's no logo on the PDF and no per-property branding (yet). Tell us if that matters.

The shareable link

Inside Public manifest link, you'll see:

  • A range toggle: Today / This week.
  • A URL ending in .../manifest.pdf.
  • Copy link and Regenerate link buttons.

The URL is a separate token from your widget — you can give it to staff without exposing anything else. Anyone with the URL can open the PDF; there's no login. Treat it as a shared secret.

When you click Regenerate link, the old URL stops working immediately. Anyone using the old link sees a 404 until you give them the new one. There's no undo.

Use cases. A tablet at the front desk that always shows today's manifest. A tour-guide WhatsApp group that pings them with this week's link Monday morning. Staff phones bookmarked to the rolling URL.

Edge cases

  • No bookings on the date — the PDF still renders with the header and a "No bookings for this period" message. Confirms the date is clear.
  • Past manifests — the public link only ever shows current/future. To pull a past day, open the calendar, navigate to that date, and use Export manifest (PDF) from there.
  • Time zone — the PDF uses the service's time zone, not the viewer's. Today means midnight-to-midnight in the service's TZ.
  • Throttle — the public URL allows up to 30 requests per minute per token. Heavy refresh schedules from staff phones are fine.

Troubleshooting

SymptomCauseFix
Staff says the link doesn't workThe service is inactive, or another admin regenerated the linkConfirm the service status is Active; copy the current link from the admin and re-share
PDF shows yesterday's bookingsTime-zone mismatch between viewer and serviceThe PDF uses the service's time zone — confirm it matches the property's actual location (property basics)
I regenerated the link by accidentRegeneration is irreversibleThe new link is on the page; share it with staff and delete the old bookmarks
Manifest doesn't include a custom-field answer the guest filled inThe PDF only shows fields with non-empty answersOpen the booking — if the answer is there, it should be on the PDF. If not, refresh and re-export
I want a manifest for my place, not a servicePlaces don't have manifestsUse iCal export — staff subscribes to the URL in their phone calendar

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