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Now, how do you manage the total inventory? Each variant has it's own inventory, but you can't just say 100. Proof the email laptop latte workers who run Squarespace have never run a brick and mortar business. This is the most basic use case, I have 100 pork loins for a pop up dinner, that's my limiting factor in inventory. I offer 3 variants, indoor seating, premier piano side seating and rooftop throw rocks seating. My options are 33/33/34

No. I ran into this as well and had to create a forwarding rule to send the booking information to my employees (the intake form *ONLY* goes to your Square Space email).

No. In fact, the scheduling like <bizname>.as.me/schedule.php is totally wide open so people can book everything on your site if they have that URL (or use it honestly once). This is assuming you are using SquareSpace for commerce (i.e. your customers buy things on the squarespace site, not on the acuity site).

It's even more non-functional than Patrick's experience. Squarespace customer logins have no integration with acuity at all. For example the embed method which can put a calendar on a page (even a page protected as digital content) is essentially an unauthenticated direct link. A quick look in your browers tooling can show you the address. Even more puzzling for honest users is, they can also make an acuity login, which has nothing to do with the squarespace login they use to buy things. All you need to book all of Patricks yoga classes for free from today until the end of time and completely ruin his business is the URL https://<businessname>.as.me/schedule.php There's no login. The cherry on the Useless Product Sundae is that if you create a services product (lets say a class in a room or a foot massage), which is essentially *the one thing you want the scheduling software for* you can't provide a login protected page for them to securely book the time. You would (I'm laughing as I type this wondering how much the Square Space product manager gets paid) have to make a physical product for each time available and sent an inventory to the number of 'seats'. Then make new ones every week / day / month. The whole thing has nothing to do with SquareSpace really. As a stand alone scheduling product Acuity also has some absurd flaws that would surely have been solved by now. Here's 1 of many I've thrown my hands up trying to get this to work (See attachment) If you have anything where the time varies by day of week (think yoga, or fitness classes which are shorter during weekdays) you have to have them be different 'Appointment Types' ... why you ask? Because an Appointment Type can only have 1 length. So if weekday after work classes are 1 hour and weekend warrior classes are 2 hours and you want the calendar to be functional and actually show the proper 'slots' in a day you have to have 2 appointment types. But if you want to sell a "5 Class" membership ... you can't actually do it. Why -- because product management. When you go to create a package it isn't actually a total of (any), it's a max number of each type. But since a customer could do 5 weekend and no weekday packages it doesn't work. I've almost given up on this platform as a way to run a scheduled, in person business. It just doesn't model how the real world and physical locations with rooms and slots works. I can't imagine renewing next year.