How bookings work — Booked by the night, on a booking page

A cottage, a room, a boat or a pitch is not booked at a time, it is booked for a run of nights. Set a booking page's mode to Stays and the funnel changes: instead of a list of times, a guest sees two months of nights and drags a range across them. The departure day is free again. Somebody leaving on the 8th and somebody arriving on the 8th is a changeover, not a clash, so the 8th is still on sale — which is the same rule the Scheduler's stays chart draws with, and the same rule Airbnb and every other platform uses. It is worth knowing because it is the difference between selling that night and losing it. The two date fields are an arrival and a departure, and neither may record a time of day. That is not a limitation, it is what makes the booking land on the tape chart: a stay whose arrival carried an hour would drop out of the one view built to show it.