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# Blocked dates

> Hold a room or a whole room type off sale — owner stays, maintenance, or a manual close.

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A **block** holds nights off sale without a booking behind them: an owner
staying, a bathroom being refitted, or a room you simply want to stop selling.
Manage blocks from the property's
**<AppLink to="blocked-dates">Blocked dates</AppLink>** settings.

<Note>
  Blocked dates live under property settings, which are role-gated: only
  Managers and other users with settings access can hold rooms off sale. See
  [Roles & permissions](/team/roles-and-permissions).
</Note>

A blocked night stops being sold **here and on your connected channels** — it is
subtracted from the availability your channels see, the same way a reservation
is. That is the point: a room you are holding should not get booked out from
under you.

## Hold nights off sale

Under **What to hold**, choose either:

* **A single room** — "Room 103". Only that room is held; the others of its type
  stay on sale.
* **A whole room type** — "Every Double". Every room of that type is held.

Then set **First night** and **Last night**. Both nights are included, and the
morning after the last night is bookable again — the same way a departure day
works for a reservation. Holding a room for the night of the 1st through the
night of the 4th means a guest can check in on the 5th.

Pick a **Reason** so the block explains itself later:

| Reason              | Use it for                                |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| **Maintenance**     | Work that makes the room unusable.        |
| **Owner stay**      | The owner or their guests using the room. |
| **Closed manually** | Anything else you want off sale.          |

The block appears in the list below, showing the nights held, what is held, and
why.

## Remove a block

Delete a block from its row in the list. The nights go back on sale
immediately — here and on your connected channels.

## Block dates from the calendar

For a quick hold you can work straight from the
[calendar](/reservations/calendar): tap **Block dates**, then drag across a
room's row to hold those nights. It creates the same kind of block, scoped to
that one room, with the reason set to *Closed manually*.

Held nights show on the calendar as a striped band across the room's row,
labelled with the reason.

## Blocking versus closing

Two different tools, easy to confuse:

* **Blocked dates** hold *inventory*. The room is not available, so it does not
  count toward what you can sell.
* **Closed** on the [Pricing](/properties/pricing) screen stops a night
  *selling* while the room still exists in inventory.

For an owner stay or maintenance, a block is what you want.