This Week in Small Business Tech: Booking, Forms & Follow-Up

Calendar Booking Windows Now Count Only Your Working Days

If your business is closed on weekends—or runs a non-standard schedule like Mon/Wed/Fri—your online booking calendar used to burn through those off days when calculating availability. A customer visiting your booking page on a Friday afternoon would see an empty calendar, even though you had openings on Monday.

That's fixed. A new toggle called Count available days only skips the days you're not working. Set your date range to 2 days, and the system shows the next 2 actual working days—not 2 calendar days that might land on a Saturday and Sunday.

This works across meeting calendars, service bookings, and rental calendars. Round robin and team calendars count a day as available if at least one team member is working that day.

Bottom line: Your booking page now reflects reality instead of confusing customers with blank calendars.

Forms, Surveys & Quizzes Now Open and Close on a Schedule

Running a time-sensitive campaign—event registration, limited-time offer, contest—and your form stays live indefinitely? That meant someone had to remember to manually turn it off. Now you can set an open date, a close date, and choose what visitors see before and after the window.

You pick the time zone, decide whether to show a custom message or redirect to another URL, and the system handles the rest. No more stale registration forms collecting entries after an event already happened.

This applies to forms, surveys, and quizzes equally. Existing ones keep working exactly as before unless you enable scheduling.

Bottom line: Set it and forget it—your forms now follow your campaign timeline automatically.

Trigger Workflows in Bulk for Companies and Custom Objects

Until now, if you needed to run a workflow on a batch of existing records—say, a renewal reminder for 50 policies—you had to update each record individually or build a workaround. Now you can select multiple Company or Custom Object records from the list view and trigger an automation for all of them at once.

Pick the records, choose the workflow, confirm, and track results from the Bulk Actions panel. Practical uses: onboarding sequences for a batch of new companies, renewal automations for policies or subscriptions, or processing a freshly imported CSV of records.

Bottom line: Batch-trigger workflows without touching records one at a time.

Calendar Guest Capture Now Includes Phone Numbers

When someone books an appointment and brings a guest, the system used to collect only the guest's name and email. Now you can choose what to capture: name and email, name and phone, all three, or just a guest count.

Guest contacts are automatically created or matched in your CRM using whatever info you collect. And guest contacts now inherit the primary booker's time zone instead of defaulting to your business time zone—a small fix that prevents confusion in follow-up messages.

Existing calendars keep the old name-and-email setting. New calendars default to collecting name, email, and phone.

Bottom line: Richer guest records and fewer time-zone mismatches, with zero extra work on your end.

What This Means for You

None of these changes require you to overhaul anything. They're the kind of small, practical improvements that reduce manual work and make your customer-facing tools behave the way you'd expect them to.

If you want help turning on any of these features—or want us to look at how your current setup could work harder for you—book a 15-minute snapshot at fivearrowsgrowth.com. No pitch, just a straight answer.