Use the replacement tag with your customer's the local time in booking notifications

At TuCalendi we have different replacement tags to indicate the date and time of the reservation. To avoid time confusion, you should use the replacement tag with your customer's the local time in booking notifications.

Time confusion appears when you perform virtual events and your customers may be in a different time zone than yours. On the other hand, if the services you perform are on-site at your place of work or you only offer your services locally, time errors do not usually occur.

The replacement tags that refer to the hours and date are as follows:

customers_local_date
Customer's local date
customers_local_time
Customer's local time
event_local_date
Event's local date
event_local_time
Event's local date

The tags referring to the event indicate the time zone you specified when creating the event and may not coincide with the time zone where your customers are located. On the other hand, the tags that refer to the customers give the time zone from where the customer has made the booking.

The TuCalendi widget automatically detects the time zone where customers are located when they open the widget and it is the one displayed when customers access the calendar to make a booking.

Especially if your events are virtual, it is convenient to use the {customers_local_date} and {customers_local_time} tags.

Let's see how to choose the right tags to refer to the customers' time zone.

In the option "Confirmation templates" click on "Select":

Create a new confirmation template

If you do not already have a custom confirmation template, you should start by creating a new template from scratch. Click on the "New" button and indicate the name you want the template you are going to create to have.

In case you already have a template and you need to modify it, just click on the template you want to edit.

New confirmation template

Initially the template is empty so that you can fully customize it. Click on the field called "DEFAULT":

Creating a confirmation template

Clicking on the "Email" field will open the editor with which you will be able to write the confirmation notification that your customers will receive when they make a booking with you and you can include the different replacement tags for the customization of the notification.

Customer's local date and customer's local time tags This is where you should use the {customers_local_date} and {customers_local_time} tags.

When you finish editing or creating the confirmation template click "Save" and the customers will receive the confirmation email the way you have designed it.