Salesforce Booking Calendar & Resource Scheduler

A Salesforce booking system in four clicks

Booking adds resources, time slots and capacity to the MultiDatePick calendar. Every booking saves as a record on your own object.

1Pick a resource
→
2Pick one or many dates
→
3Click open time slots
→
4Book: records saved

Any object is a resourceRooms, desks, vans, gear, or User for people.

Live capacitySlots fill to a limit, with 3/10 badges.

Conflict detectionChecked on save. Block, skip or allow.

Multi-resourceBook several rooms or people at once.

Business hoursEach resource shows its own open hours.

Blocked datesHolidays and closures, whole or part day.

Status colorsAny picklist, on days and on slots.

Inline editMove, retime, reassign or cancel in bulk.

Salesforce booking calendar in MultiDatePick for one advisor: each day colored by appointment status, a mixed day striped, and a 30 minute time slot grid with booked of capacity badges — Every slot shows booked of capacity. Full slots close themselves.

MultiDatePick Salesforce booking calendar showing one advisor month: each day colored by appointment status (Requested, Confirmed, Met, No-Show), diagonal stripes on the days that mix statuses, and a switcher for the Calendar, Timeline, Week, Utilization and Agenda views — Days colored by booking status. Mixed days are striped.

Salesforce resource calendar: five views of the same bookings

Booking is the component where every view earns its keep, because it knows resources and capacity. Same records, same save path. Only the layout changes.

View	What you see	Answers
Calendar	A month for the chosen resource, days colored by status	What is on the 14th?
Timeline	Resources down, dates across, multi-day bookings as one bar. Day, Week or Month zoom	Which room is free, and when?
Week	Seven days by business hours, bookings sized to their length	Who is free Thursday at 2pm?
Utilization	Booked of capacity per resource per day, as a heatmap	Who is over capacity?
Agenda	The next 60 days in date order, with time and status	What is next?

Animated demo of the MultiDatePick Salesforce resource timeline: advisors down the side, multi-day engagements as single bars, a hover card on one engagement, then zooming from Week to Month and paging forward — Timeline: every resource on one screen.

Animated demo of the MultiDatePick Salesforce utilization heatmap: advisors down the side showing booked of capacity per day, hovering a full day, then clicking it to open that advisor's week — Utilization: click a full day to open that week.

Animated demo of the MultiDatePick Salesforce week view: choosing an advisor shows their client meetings as status-colored blocks sized to each meeting's length, with hover cards giving client, meeting type and status — Week: real meeting lengths, inside business hours.

Animated demo of rescheduling on the MultiDatePick Salesforce timeline: dragging the right edge of an engagement stretches it two days, then dragging another engagement slides it two days later, each saving on release with its new dates shown on the bar — Drag a bar to reschedule. It saves on release.

Point the resource at User and it schedules people

Timeline becomes a roster, Week a shift grid, Utilization a team capacity dashboard. The Config Library ships Team Capacity Planning and Staff Shift Roster ready to import.

Deep dives: the Salesforce timeline view and the Salesforce utilization heatmap.

Capacity and conflict detection: no double booking

Every save is checked against existing bookings. You choose what happens on a clash.

BlockDefault. Taken slots cannot be clicked, so a double booking never starts.

SkipBook 20 dates at once; the open ones save and a banner names the ones skipped.

AllowOverlap is fine, for resources that can be shared freely.

Setting	What it does
Capacity Field	A number on the resource. Slots stay bookable until full, with live 3/10 badges
Capacity Aggregation	Combined sums several resources (4 rooms of 5 = 20 seats). Distinct counts one event across rooms once; pair it with Block so the event saves only when every room is free
Hide Bookings With Status	Cancelled bookings vanish from the grid and free their capacity
Conflict Look-Ahead Days	How far ahead badges and conflicts are checked. Default 360

More: how to prevent double booking in Salesforce.

Use cases: room, equipment and people booking in Salesforce

Anything shared that gets reserved by date and time. Fifteen real setups, with the settings that make each one work.

Conference room booking

Each room shows its own hours. Compare rooms side by side.

Business hours
Multiple resources

Training enrollment

Seats per session, with Enrolled, Waitlisted and Cancelled colors.

Capacity
3/10 badges

Desk hoteling

Hybrid staff reserve desks weeks ahead and change them later.

Two-month view
Edit mode

Vehicle and fleet reservation

Compare the whole fleet. Hover shows make, model and plate.

Multiple resources
Hover fields

Therapist and counselor sessions

One-hour blocks inside each therapist's own hours.

60 minute slots
Status colors

Classroom allocation

Room capacity per slot, or full-day bookings with no times.

Capacity
Full-day mode

Coworking spaces

Pods share seats; cancellations free capacity at once.

Capacity
Hide cancelled

Hotel and property stays

Pick nights and a room. A stay saves as one check-in to check-out record.

Full-day mode
End Date Field

Field service technicians

Dispatch across 25+ techs, never two jobs on one tech.

Block conflicts
Active filter

Service truck dispatch

Filter trucks by type and region; cap stops per slot.

Two-field filter
Capacity

Event venue spaces

Multi-day setup and tear-down as one record, color-coded by hold.

End Date Field
Status colors

Studio and gear booking

Clients see availability on a public page before requesting.

Read-only preload
Experience Cloud

Sports fields and courts

Book several courts for a tournament, inside the open season.

Multiple resources
Latest date

Medical appointments

Patients pick a doctor by specialty and a 15 minute slot.

Specialty filter
15 minute slots

EV charging bays

Each bay is a resource; hover shows charger speed.

Combined or Distinct
Hover fields

Rooms in depth: Salesforce conference room booking.

Self-service booking on Experience Cloud

The same component on a public site page. Customers book open slots themselves, straight into your org.

What visitors get

Open slots and live capacity
An in-component confirmation toast
One status set for them, picker hidden

What you set

Config Name, plus Static Parent Record Id
Show In-Component Toast on
Selectable Statuses, e.g. Requested
Guest access to your booking and resource objects

Guests can read and create. That is a Salesforce guest-user rule, so cancel and edit flows belong behind a login. Booking is exactly what guests can do.

Full walkthrough: Salesforce Experience Cloud booking. Weighing Salesforce Scheduler? Compare it with MultiDatePick.

How bookings save: your objects, your fields

No new data model. Point the Setup Wizard at two objects you already have, plus an optional closures table.

Booking object

Booking Object API NameRoom_Booking__c
Booking Date FieldBooking_Date__c
Booking Start / End Time FieldStart_Time__c
Booking Resource FieldMeeting_Room__c
Parent Record Relationship FieldContact__c
End Date Field (optional)End_Date__c
Status Field (optional)Status__c

Resource object

Resource Object API NameMeeting_Room__c
Resource Name FieldName
Business Hours Start / End FieldBusiness_Hours_Start__c
Capacity Field (optional)Capacity__c
Resource Filter Field (optional)Active__c

Blocked dates Optional

Blocked Dates ObjectClosure__c
Blocked Dates Date FieldDate__c
Start / End Time Fieldpart-day closure
Blocked Dates Resource Fieldone resource only

Filter the resource picker by any field

Resource Filter Field and Value scope the list. A comma means OR, a semicolon combines fields with AND. The wizard shows the right control for the field type.

Show only	Filter Field	Filter Value
Active resources Checkbox	`Active__c`	`true`
North or South building Picklist	`Building__c`	`North,South`
Rooms seating 12 or 16 Number	`Capacity__c`	`12,16`
Conference rooms in North or South Two fields, AND	`Type__c;Building__c`	`Conference Room;North,South`

Also supported: Text, Long Text and Lookup fields (paste record Ids).

Add the booking calendar to a page or a Screen Flow

Build the config once in the Setup Wizard, then drop the component anywhere. No Apex.

Lightning pages and Experience Cloud

Drag MultiDatePick - Resource Booking onto the page
Set Config Name
Record pages link bookings to the record automatically
App, Home and Experience pages: set Static Parent Record Id

Screen Flows

Drag the component onto a Flow screen
Set Config Name; every checkbox comes from the config
Records save on Book, no Loop or Create Records
Outputs: bookings saved, and dates that conflicted

Animated demo in Salesforce Flow Builder: open a screen, search MultiDatePick, drag the Resource Booking component onto the screen, set Config Name to a saved Setup Wizard config, click Done and Save — In a Screen Flow, Config Name is the only setting you need.

After Book	You get
Records	Saved on Book. Adjacent slots join into one booking; with End Date Field, adjacent dates do too
Successful Bookings Count	Flow output: how many saved
Conflict Dates	Flow output: dates that could not be booked
Done button	Collapses to a summary card on the page

Step by step: Getting Started and the Flow Cheat Sheet.

Specifications and pricing

At a glance, for evaluators and architects.

Security	Passed Salesforce AppExchange Security Review
Data	100% native: your data stays in Salesforce. No external servers, no callouts.
Editions	Enterprise, Unlimited, Performance, Developer and Salesforce Platform, plus industry clouds. Not Essentials or Professional.
Where it runs	Screen Flow, Record, App and Home pages, Experience Cloud
Time slots	Any interval (15, 30 or 60 minutes are typical), or full-day
Languages	9, including Spanish, French, German and Japanese
Accessibility	WCAG 2.1 AA
Settings	100+, set in the Setup Wizard or App Builder
Data	100% native: your data stays in Salesforce, on your own objects

MultiDatePick

$20/user/mo

Booking, Date and Date Time, every feature
30-day free trial, no card required
No per-booking meter

See pricing →

Salesforce booking calendar questions

Short answers to what people search.

Does Salesforce have a booking calendar?

Not one that books your own objects. The standard Salesforce calendar shows Events and records, but it is a viewer, not a booking control. Salesforce Scheduler is a paid add-on built on its own data model. MultiDatePick Booking adds a booking calendar to any object, with time slots, capacity and conflict checks.

How do I book rooms or equipment in Salesforce?

Keep your rooms or equipment as records on any object, then point the MultiDatePick Booking component at that object in the Setup Wizard. Users pick a room, pick dates, click open time slots and book. Each booking saves as a record on your booking object, linked to the room and the parent record.

Can customers book on an Experience Cloud site?

Yes. Drop the Booking component on an Experience Cloud page, set Config Name and Static Parent Record Id, and visitors book open slots themselves. Guest users can read and create, so cancellations and edits belong behind a login.

How do I prevent double booking in Salesforce?

Set Conflict Behavior on the Booking component. Block makes taken slots unclickable, Skip saves the open dates of a multi-date booking and names the ones it skipped, and Allow permits overlap. With a Capacity Field, a slot stays open until it is full, shown as live badges like 3/10.

Can I see a calendar for every room or resource in Salesforce?

Yes. The Timeline view puts every room, vehicle or person down the side and dates across the top, with a combined capacity strip. The Utilization view shows how full each resource is per day as a heatmap, and the Week view shows open hours.

Can one booking reserve several resources at once?

Yes. Turn on Allow Booking Multiple Resources and users tick several rooms, people or vehicles. Capacity Aggregation decides how availability adds up: Combined for independent inventory, Distinct for one event that needs every resource free.

Is there a Lightning Web Component for booking in Salesforce?

Yes. MultiDatePick Booking is a Lightning Web Component for Screen Flows, Record Pages, App Pages, Home Pages and Experience Cloud pages. It is configured in a Setup Wizard, with no Apex.

How much does the MultiDatePick booking calendar cost?

$20 per user per month for every component and feature, with a 30-day free trial and no card required.

Every Booking setting

The full reference, by the label admins see in App Builder, Flow Builder and the Setup Wizard.

Open the full Booking settings reference

With Config Name set, every setting comes from the Setup Wizard config. The Date and Date Time pages document the shared calendar settings too: Date reference.

Configuration and views

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Config Name	`configName`		Loads every setting from a saved Setup Wizard config
View	`view`	calendar	Opening layout: calendar, timeline, week, utilization or agenda. Utilization and agenda are read only
Available Views	`availableViews`	all five	Which views the switcher offers. The default view is always included
Timeline Window (Days)	`timelineWindowDays`	14	Days the timeline shows at once. 0 for the full month
Timeline Zoom	`timelineZoom`	week	Starting zoom: day, week or month. Users can switch
Timeline Group By Field	`timelineGroupByField`		Groups timeline rows under headers, e.g. by building, each with a capacity strip
Max View Resources	`maxViewResources`		Most resource rows Timeline and Utilization draw, busiest first. Limits rows drawn, not rows counted
Resource Rows	`resourceViewFilter`	all	all, or booked to draw only resources with a booking in the window
Agenda Fields	`agendaFields`		Extra fields on each agenda row. Blank reuses Hover Popover Fields

Display

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Button Label	`label`	Book Resource	Text on the button that opens the calendar
Calendar Title	`modalTitle`	Book Resource	Title at the top of the calendar
Show Inline (No Button)	`showInline`	false	Calendar always visible on the page, no popup
Show Done Button in Inline Mode	`showDoneButtonInline`	true	Done collapses the inline calendar to a summary card; click to reopen
Two-Month View	`twoMonthView`	false	Two months side by side
Calendar Size	`calendarSize`	medium	small, medium or large
Day Header Format	`dayHeaderFormat`	3	3 = SUN MON, 2 = SU MO, 1 = S M
Week Starts on Monday	`weekStartsOnMonday`	false	Week begins Monday instead of Sunday
Show Recurring Pattern Button	`showRecurringPattern`	true	Weekly and monthly patterns for picking many dates
Show Selection Summary	`showSelectedSummary`	true	Count and ranges of the selected dates
Required	`required`	false	A Flow cannot advance until something is picked

Resource

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Resource Object API Name	`resourceObjectApiName`		The object that holds what gets booked. Any object, including User
Resource Name Field	`resourceNameField`	Name	Name shown in the resource picker
Business Hours Start Field	`businessHoursStartField`		Time field: when each resource opens
Business Hours End Field	`businessHoursEndField`		Time field: when each resource closes
Capacity Field	`capacityField`		Bookings allowed per slot. Turns on capacity mode and Utilization percentages
Show Availability Count	`showAvailabilityCount`	true	Live 3/10 badges on slots, with a Capacity Field
Allow Booking Multiple Resources	`allowMultipleResources`	false	Tick several resources and book them together
Capacity Aggregation (multi-resource)	`capacityAggregation`	Combined	Combined sums bookings and capacities. Distinct counts one event across resources once
Allow Save Without Picking a Resource	`allowNoResource`	false	Saves with a blank resource, e.g. a closure that applies to everyone
Resource Filter Field (optional)	`resourceFilterField`		Field(s) that limit the picker. Use ; to combine fields
Resource Filter Value (optional)	`resourceFilterValue`		Value(s) to match. , means OR, ; means AND across fields

Booking record

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Booking Object API Name	`resourceBookingObject`		Where booking records are created
Booking Date Field	`bookingDateField`		Date field on the booking
Booking Start Time Field	`bookingStartTimeField`		Time field for the start
Booking End Time Field	`bookingEndTimeField`		Time field for the end
Booking Resource Field	`bookingResourceField`		Lookup to the booked resource
Parent Record Relationship Field	`relationshipFieldApiName`		Lookup from each booking to the parent record
End Date Field	`endDateField`		Adjacent dates save as one record with a start and end date (Mon to Fri rental = 1 record)
Book Button Label	`resourceBookButtonLabel`	Book	e.g. Reserve or Schedule
Record Name Field	`recordNameField`		Text field for a readable record name
Default Record Name	`defaultRecordName`		e.g. Room Booking
Append Date/Time to Record Name	`appendDateTimeToName`	true	Adds the date and time to the name

Time slots

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Time Slot Interval (Minutes)	`timeInterval`	30	Slot length, any number of minutes
Disable Time Slot Grid (Full-Day Mode)	`disableTimeSlotGrid`	false	Date-only bookings, e.g. hotel nights
Allow Different Times Per Date	`allowDifferentTimes`	false	Each date gets its own slot grid
Group Time Slots by Period	`groupTimeSlotsByPeriod`	false	Morning, Afternoon and Evening groups
Max Time Slots	`maxTimeSlotSelection`	0	Most slots one user can pick in total. 0 = unlimited
Allow Whole-Day (No Times)	`allowWholeDayNoTimes`	false	A date picked with no slots saves as a whole-day record
Time Grid Only	`timeGridOnly`	false	Hides the calendar; shows only the slot grid for one implied date
Time Grid Date	`timeGridDate`		Explicit date (YYYY-MM-DD) for Time Grid Only
Time Grid Date Field	`timeGridDateField`		Date field on the host record. Priority: Time Grid Date, then this field, then today

Conflicts and capacity

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Conflict Behavior	`conflictBehavior`	block	block: taken slots cannot be picked. skip: multi-date bookings save the open dates and list the skipped ones. allow: no check
Conflict Look-Ahead Days	`conflictLookAheadDays`	360	Window for both availability badges and the conflict check on save
Hide Bookings With Status	`hideBookingsWithStatus`		e.g. Cancelled: hidden from the grid and left out of capacity

Status and hover

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Status Field	`statusField`		Picklist that drives the colors
Status Colors	`statusColors`		e.g. `Confirmed:green,Pending:orange,Cancelled:red`
Status Color Display	`statusColorDisplay`	both	grid (slots), calendar (days) or both
Status Field Label	`statusFieldLabel`		Label for the status picker
Selectable Statuses (Status Picker)	`selectableStatuses`		Which statuses users may set. One value is applied automatically and the picker hides
Second Picklist Field	`secondStatusField`		A second picklist chosen on save, e.g. a reason. Not color-coded
Second Picklist Label	`secondStatusFieldLabel`		Label for the second picklist
Selectable Second-Picklist Values	`selectableSecondStatuses`		Allowed values for the second picklist
Hover Popover Fields	`hoverFields`		Fields shown when hovering a booking
Show In-Component Toast	`showSuccessToast`	false	Confirmation drawn inside the component. Needed on Experience Cloud
Success Toast Message (optional)	`successToastMessage`		Custom success text

Edit mode

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Enable Edit Mode	`enableEditMode`	true	Bulk change status, date, time or resource in one Apply, with the same conflict check. Deletes need two clicks
Edit Button Label	`editButtonLabel`	Edit Bookings	Label for the edit button
Edit Record Display	`editRecordDisplay`	name, status, time, resource	Which details show per record in the edit list, in order. Keywords: name, status, time, date, resource

Dates and limits

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Max Dates Per Booking	`maxSelections`	0	Most dates per booking. 0 = unlimited
Allow Past Dates	`allowPastDates`	false	Allow booking in the past
Earliest Bookable Date	`minDate`		Nothing before this date
Latest Bookable Date	`maxDate`		Nothing after this date
Pre-Selected Dates	`defaultDates`		Dates picked when the calendar opens
Blocked Dates	`disabledDates`		A fixed list of dates that cannot be picked
Only These Dates Are Selectable	`availableDates`		Everything else is closed
Auto-Jump to First Available Date	`autoJumpToFirstAvailable`	false	Opens on the first open month

Blocked dates object

Setting	API name	What it does
Blocked Dates Object	`blockedDatesSourceObject`	Object of holidays and closures. Turns blocking on
Blocked Dates Date Field	`blockedDatesDateField`	Date field on that object
Blocked Dates Filter Field	`blockedDatesFilterField`	Field that picks which closures apply
Blocked Dates Filter Value	`blockedDatesFilterValue`	Value that field must equal
Blocked Dates Start Time Field	`blockedDatesStartTimeField`	Start of a part-day closure
Blocked Dates End Time Field	`blockedDatesEndTimeField`	End of a part-day closure
Blocked Dates Resource Field	`blockedDatesResourceField`	Closes one resource only. Blank closes all

Saving to the parent record

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Static Parent Record Id	`staticRecordId`		Parent record for App, Home and Experience pages
Parent Record Id	`recordId`		Set automatically on record pages; pass it in a Flow
Parent Record Id Field	`parentRecordIdField`		Alternative parent linking field
Related Booking Object API Name	`relatedObjectApiName`		Usually the same as Booking Object API Name
Date Field API Name	`dateFieldApiName`		Usually the same as Booking Date Field
Load Existing Dates	`preloadExistingDates`	true	Shows existing bookings on the grid
Existing Dates Mode	`preloadMode`	editable	editable, or readonly for public availability pages
Save Button Label	`saveButtonLabel`	Save	Text on the save button

Sub-blocks (Consolidate Time Span)

All picked slots become one parent booking from first to last slot; gaps save as child records. For trainer days, travel time or shift breaks, not for rooms that should free up between meetings.

Setting	API name	Default	What it does
Consolidate Time Span	`consolidateTimeSpan`	false	Turns sub-blocks on
Sub-Block Object API Name	`subBlockObjectApiName`		Child object for the gaps
Sub-Block Parent Lookup Field	`subBlockParentLookupField`		Lookup back to the parent booking
Sub-Block Date Field	`subBlockDateField`		Date field on the child
Sub-Block Start Time Field	`subBlockStartTimeField`		Start time on the child
Sub-Block End Time Field	`subBlockEndTimeField`		End time on the child
Sub-Block Name Field	`subBlockNameField`		Filled with the Sub-Block Button Label
Sub-Block Button Label	`subBlockModeButtonLabel`		e.g. Mark as Break
Show Sub-Block Toggle Button	`showSubBlockButton`	false	Shows that toggle on the grid

Flow outputs

Setting	API name	Type	What it returns
Successful Bookings Count (Output)	`bookingSuccessCount`	Number	How many bookings saved
Conflict Dates (Output)	`bookingConflictDates`	Text collection	Dates that could not be booked

Keep exploring

Booking in depth, and the rest of the suite.

Conference Room BookingRooms on one calendar Experience Cloud BookingSelf-service on a public site vs Lightning SchedulerWhen to choose which Prevent Double BookingBlock, skip, capacity The Timeline ViewResources down, dates across The Utilization HeatmapWho is over capacity

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