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title: Location settings explained
description: Every setting for an office, including booking limits and auto-release
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# Location settings explained

## Every setting for an office, including booking limits and auto-release

## Quick answer

**Where:** Web app only, admins: do this in the **web app** ([app.deskfound.com](https://app.deskfound.com)). It isn't available in Slack.

Go to **Settings → Locations** and click **Settings** on an office's row. Change what you need and click **Save changes**. Each office has its own settings.

## The settings

- **Location name** and **Address**. The office's **timezone** is set from the address and shown underneath. Booking dates, reminders and Slack messages all use this timezone.
- **Temperature scale:** °C or °F for the weather on the booking page.
- **Show/hide weekends:** whether Saturday and Sunday appear and can be booked.
- **Week starts on:** Monday, Sunday or Saturday. With weekends hidden, the five days from this day are shown, so a Sunday start shows Sunday to Thursday.
- **Disable recurring bookings:** Yes hides the **Repeat weekly** option for this office.
- **How far in advance a user can book a desk (max 24 weeks):** limits how many weeks ahead people can book. Leave blank for no limit. This applies to everyone, in the web app and in Slack, and to repeating bookings.
- **Cancel bookings if not checked-in by (in 24hr format):** an hour from 0 to 23, for example 10 for 10am. Bookings not checked in by then are released automatically. Leave blank to turn this off. See below.
- **Enable half day bookings (AM/PM):** Yes lets people book a morning or an afternoon instead of a full day.
- **Parking enabled:** Yes adds the Parking tab. See *Setting up parking*.
- **No. of dogs allowed:** how many dogs can come in each day, up to 3. Leave blank or 0 to turn dog bookings off.
- **Office Contact:** a team member people can ask about the office. Shown on the Info tab.
- **Arrival instructions:** door codes, parking tips, which floor to go to. Shown on the Info tab.

## How auto-release works

If you set **Cancel bookings if not checked-in by**, then every day at that hour (in the office's timezone), Deskfound cancels that day's bookings that haven't been checked in, so the desks are free for others. It doesn't release:

- bookings that start after the cutoff, such as PM bookings with a morning cutoff,
- bookings made after the cutoff on the same day,
- guest bookings.

Nobody is notified when a booking is released. Tell your team about the cutoff, and consider turning on **Slack check-in** in Settings → Account so they can check in from their morning reminder. See *Checking in to your booking*.

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