ArtistryHost lets you present bookings to guests in one of three ways. The choice depends on what your venue actually sells.
Experience-first
The guest picks what they want to do, then sees available dates for that experience.
"I want to book a Candle Pour Workshop." → Calendar of upcoming Candle Pour Workshop sessions.
Best for venues that:
- Run a small number of distinct experiences (Candle Pour vs Candle Bar vs Custom Vessel)
- Have customers who know what they want before they pick a date
- Sell at different price points by experience type
Most candle bars, paint-and-sip studios, and pottery studios use experience-first.
Date-first
The guest picks when they want to come, then sees what's happening that day.
"I want to come Saturday at 7pm." → Whatever experiences are running Saturday 7pm.
Best for venues that:
- Run mostly one type of experience that varies by host or theme
- Have customers planning a specific night (date night, bachelorette, corporate offsite)
- Run private events on the same calendar as public sessions
Most wineries, tasting rooms, and venues with packed schedules use date-first.
Calendar
The guest sees a month calendar with every session on its day — the experience name, the start time, and (if you turn it on) how many seats are left. They tap a session, then say who's coming.
"Which nights can we do a class this week?" → A month grid: Cajun & Creole Basics on Wednesday and Friday at 4 pm, Louisiana Seafood on Monday at 4 pm, Friday sold out.
Best for venues that:
- Run a few different offerings that each happen once or twice a day (cooking schools, workshops, tours)
- Have guests planning around travel dates, who pick the day before the class
- Came from Peek, Bookeo or FareHarbor and want the same calendar their guests know
On a phone the grid becomes a list: guests type the date they have in mind and see that day plus the days either side, or browse the month.
Anything booked by request, or not yet on the schedule, still appears in an Everything we offer list under the calendar, so nothing disappears.
Show remaining seats
Under Settings → Booking page there's also a checkbox, Show remaining seats to guests. It's off unless you turn it on, and it works with every booking order:
- Bookable times read "6 left" (or "Only 2 left"), so guests can see a session filling up.
- Sold-out times look exactly as they do today.
- Parties at or over your large-party size see "Groups to 15" on the times that take them, not a seat count — the small-party number would read as "we don't fit" to a group that does.
The count comes from the same numbers your run sheet uses. It adds nothing to page load.
You can switch later
Go to Settings → Booking page and change the Booking order dropdown. Your options read "Experience first — pick the experience, then date & time", "Date first — pick a day, then the time slot" and "Calendar — a month view with each session on its day." Existing bookings aren't affected. Test both for a couple weeks if you're not sure. Your conversion data will tell you which one fits.
A combination is fine too
This account-wide setting is your default, but each location can override it. Open a location's Edit page and set its own Booking order there (or leave it on "Use the business default"). For example: a winery running date-first overall, but a second tasting-room location that books better experience-first can use experience-first just for that venue. The override is per location — there's no per-experience booking flow.
If you're new to this and unsure, start with experience-first. It's the more common pattern in our category and it's easier for guests who only book occasionally.