Public booking requests

Separately from the read-only calendar link, a hall can also accept booking requests directly — turn on Accept public booking requests for a hall (on the Halls page) to get its own request link. An external hirer fills in their name, contact details, date and time, purpose of booking, expected attendees and layout preference, and — if you've set one — must tick to accept your hire agreement before submitting. Nothing is added to the calendar yet: it lands as a pending request on your group's Requests page, where an owner, leader or helper can approve it (checked automatically for capacity, duration and clashes before it's added, so an approval can never double-book the hall) or decline it with an optional reason. The hirer gets an email either way, plus an automatic reminder the day before a one-off booking they made this way (recurring bookings don't get this yet). The same purpose and layout preference fields are also available on bookings you create yourself.