What are Day Passes?

Introduction

Day passes help you manage access to your space for casual drop-ins or members that are not using your space every day. Day passes are tightly coupled with check-ins. A check-in/check-out pair is what defines a single day pass usage.

Table of Contents

• Day Passes
• Half-day passes
• Day Pass Types
• How To Add Day Passes
• Add Day Passes Manually
• Filtering Day Passes
• Add Day Passes as a Part of a Billing Plan

Day Passes

A member can receive day passes through one of the following ways:

• During Sign-up - purchasing a one-off plan that grants day passes will enable the Use Day Passes option in a member's profile. This ensures their passes will be deducted when they check-in, even if they are active members.
• Memberships and Plans with Day Passes - The Use Day Passes setting will automatically be enabled in the member's profile. When a membership or one-off plan that grants day passes is assigned to a member by an admin.
• Manually granted - An admin can manually add day passes to a member profile. However, adding day passes manually will not automatically enable the Use Day Passes setting. If it's not enabled, members will not use up their day passes.

Half-day passes

Half-day passes are available for check-ins that last half (or less) of an organization's business hours. For example, if a workday is set at 8 hours, and a member checks in for 4 (or less) hours, they can use half of a day pass instead of its entirety. The remaining half can be used in the same way. 

To use half-day passes, navigate to Settings/Platform Modules/Resource types. Click on the Hotdesk resource and change the Check-in mode to Half-day. Note that this is a global setting which will enable half-day passes for all check-ins and resources assigned to a membership plan.

If a member has an active membership and Half-day mode is enabled, checking in for less than half the business hours of the organization will take only 0.5 day pass.

This option can be used by both admin and members, following the check-ins procedure.

Day Pass Types

Day passes can be either one-time or recurring.

When One-time day passes are added to a member's profile, they will remain available until used up.

Recurring day passes will grant a set number of day passes at the start of each month. These Day Passes will remain active until the end of the month, or until used up. At the start of the next month, a new set of day passes will be added that can be used within that month. 

How To Add Day Passes

There are two ways to add day passes - manually, or through a Billing Plan. Both approaches are described below.

Add Day Passes Manually

To add day passes to a profile manually, take the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Communities module and open a Member or Company profile.
2. Click on the Day Passes tab and click on the Add Day Passes button.
   
3. In the dialog that opens, fill in the following details:
   
   
   
   
   • Day Passes - Enter the number of day passes you'd like to grant.
   • Recurrence - Select either the Once or Month option:
     • Once - The number of Day Passes will be added as a one-time batch. They will remain active until used up.
     • Month - The number of Day Passes will be added to the customer's profile at the start of each month. Note that these passes will remain active only for the current month. A new batch will be added for every month. Unused passes from the previous month won't carry over.
   • Valid From - Select the date on which the Day Passes become valid. They cannot be used before that date. Monthly Day Passes will only be granted from that date onwards.
   • To - Select the date on which the Day Passes become invalid. All active monthly day passes will become invalid after that date.
   • Day Passes Type - Personal day passes can be used only by the particular person they are assigned to. Meanwhile, Shared day passes can be used by the entire organization. Click here to learn more.

Filtering Day Passes

Valid day passes can be filtered by Date (From-To), Type, and Status. The latter is enabled by default and set to filter only Valid passes. However, the Status column in the grid displays the current Passes status. 

For the Date filter, the default selected range is from the first to the last date of the current month. 

With both filters combined, customers can filter by Day Pass expected status. E.g. if the Date filter is set up for a feature period and the Status filter is set to Valid,  all Passes that should be Valid for at least one day in the selected period will be listed.

Add Day Passes as a Part of a Billing Plan

You can add Day Passes as part of a monthly plan, or as a one-off service. Day passes added as a monthly membership will be granted monthly. Passes purchased as a one-off fee will be active until used up.

Here's a step-by-step guide on adding Day Passes to a Billing Plan:

1. Create a Billing Plan. The steps are the same for One-off and Monthly plans.
2. Find the Passes tab.
3. Enter the number of Passes that you would like to add and (optional) specify a validity period between 1 and 12 months.
4. Hit Add or Update if you're making changes to an existing plan.