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Blocked dates let you mark your whole store, a product, a variant, or an individual item as unavailable for a defined period. Use them to handle planned downtime, photoshoots, repairs, holidays, store closures, or any other reason a resource shouldn’t be bookable.
Blocked dates remove availability for a resource across the whole store. To block selectable date options on the storefront calendar (for example, weekends or a rolling booking window), use the Methods app block calendar settings instead.

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When to use blocked dates

Use a blocked date when you want to stop new bookings for a resource without changing its visibility or status. Existing rentals are not affected. If you need to reassign or cancel bookings that already exist during the blocked period, do that from the cycle.

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Create a blocked date

1

Open Blocked dates

In Shopify Admin, head to Supercycle > Inventory > Blocked dates.
2

Start a new blocked date

Click Create blocked date in the top right.
3

Pick a resource type

Choose Shop, Product, Variant, or Item from the Resource type dropdown. The resource search below repopulates with matching records.Selecting Shop blocks the entire store for the date range — no resource search is needed.
4

Search for the resource

For Product, Variant, or Item blocks, start typing in the Resource field to search by title (or SKU for variants). Select the record you want to block. Skip this step for Shop blocks.
5

Set the date range

Set From and To dates.
  • Leave From blank to block every date up to (and including) To.
  • Leave To blank to block every date from From onwards.
  • Leave both blank to block the resource indefinitely.
6

Create

Click Create. The blocked date appears in the table immediately and applies to availability checks straight away.

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Manage existing blocked dates

The Blocked dates table lists every active block on the store. Use the column filters to narrow the list by resource or date, and use the row selection to remove blocks in bulk. To see how blocks and cycles sit across your variants over time, use the Schedule.