Sticky bookings for studios

How do I stop gaps appearing between bookings?

Switch on sticky bookings and Jammed only offers the next slot directly after an existing booking, so each new booking builds on the last and your day fills as one solid stretch.

Every studio owner knows the frustration of a fragmented day, stopping and starting with large gaps in between. A customer books 10am to 12pm, the next booking is not until 1pm, and that hour in between is too short for most sessions and too awkwardly placed to sell. It quietly eats into how much you can earn from the room.

What sticky bookings do

When sticky bookings are switched on, availability is only ever offered as a continuous run of time. Instead of letting customers drop a booking anywhere on the calendar and leave gaps behind, Jammed offers the next available slot directly after an existing booking.

Say you take a booking from 10am to 11am. Rather than opening up the whole rest of the day, Jammed only offers slots from 11am onwards. If the next customer books 11am to 1pm, availability moves to 1pm and later. Each booking builds on the last, so the room fills in one solid stretch.

Price bands are respected

If a room has more than one price band, daytime and evening for example, sticky bookings work around them rather than against them. The boundary between bands acts as a natural reset point, so taking a morning booking will not block out your evening slots. Those stay bookable straight away, at the correct rate, even if there is a gap between the morning session and the start of the evening band.

Lock to consistent session lengths

There is an optional layer on top. You can require every booking on a given day to match the length of the first one taken. If the day opens with a two hour booking from 9am to 11am, the rest of that day can be set to only offer two hour slots. This suits production rooms and DJ spaces that run on predictable session lengths and want a uniform schedule rather than a mix of odd durations.

Full control through the API

For studios that want to go further, Jammed provides an API that gives you full control over the anchor points that sticky bookings work from.

Who it is for

Sticky bookings will not be necessary for every studio. If your calendar rarely fragments, or your rooms are quiet during the day, you may never need them. But for the busiest spaces, where turnarounds are tight and every bookable hour counts, this is one of the most direct ways to push room utilisation higher.