Pooled availability with priority combines the availability of multiple Team members and displays it to Customers as a single booking calendar. When a Customer selects a time, the booking is automatically assigned to the Team member with the highest Assignment priority.

Pooled availability with priority is a hybrid distribution method which provides Customers with the maximum number of time slots while also giving priority to specific Team members.  You can set up Pooled availability with priority in a Rule-based assignment Master page using Static rules.

How are bookings assigned with Pooled availability with priority?

When a Customer selects a time on your Master page, OnceHub first checks which Team members are available at the time selected by the Customer. Then, out of the available Booking pages, the booking is assigned to the Team member with the highest Assignment priority. 

If there are multiple Team members with the same priority ranking, the booking is assigned to the Team member with the longest idle time. This is the Team member who has not received a booking for the longest amount of time.

Using Pooled availability with priority with Static rules:

1. Create a Booking page for each member, resource, or any other entity that you would like to automatically assign. Don't configure any Booking page settings yet.
2. To use Pooled availability with priority, you must use at least one Event type. You can use multiple Event types or a single Event type if you only have one meeting type. If you use one Event type, it will be automatically selected for your Customers.

   Note All Event types used in Pooled availability with priority must use Automatic booking mode. Pooled availability with priority is not possible in Booking with approval mode.

3. Associate your Event types with your Booking pages in the Event types section of the Booking page (Figure 1).  If you've created just one Event type, all the Booking pages that are used with Pooled availability with priority should be linked to this Event type.
   Figure 1: Event types section 
4. You can now configure the rest of the settings on the Booking pages and the Event types.

   NoteIf you have Booking pages with different time zones, the Time zone conversion setting for displaying time slots in your Customer's local time must be enabled in the Time slots section.

5. Go back to OnceHub setup and create a new Master page. 
6. Select Rule-based assignment as the Master page scenario.
7. In your newly created Master page go to the Assignment section and follow these steps:
   • In the Rule types section, select Static. 
   • In the Distribution method section, select Pooled availability with priority.  
   • Finally, in the Included Booking pages section, select the Booking pages whose availability you would like to combine into one single booking calendar. 
8. Each Booking page you include has an Assignment priority that you can set (Figure 2). By default, this is set to Medium - 5. To assign specific Team members a higher or lower priority, use the drop-down menu to select a priority from Low - 1 (lowest) to High - 10 (highest).
   Figure 2: Assignment priority drop-down menu
9. Next, go to the Labels and instructions section and define the Public labels that your Customers will see. Here, you can also define selection instructions for your Customers.

You're all set! You can test the page by clicking the Customer link in the Share & Publish section of the the Master page's Overview section.