# Every setting on an announcement

> The complete reference for the Announcements add-on (called Banners until October 2026) — the words, the colour, the places an announcement shows on the booking page and the website, who sees it, its link and its dates, and the limits on how many show at once.

_Last verified: 2026-10-20. Source: https://bookodile.com/docs/reference-announcements_

An announcement is a short message where customers already are: a new service,
holiday hours, a new team member, a price change. It carries no discount — for
that, use a promotion or a discount code. Announcements are an add-on, switched
on under **Settings → Announcements**, and written on the **Announcements** page.
Until October 2026 the add-on was called Banners; nothing about it changed but
the name and the website.

## The words

- **Emoji** — one, shown before the text. Optional.
- **Heading** — a few bold words before the text, up to 60 characters. Optional.
- **Text** — the message itself, up to 240 characters. The only thing an
  announcement must have.

The words are shown as you wrote them, in one language: an announcement is not
translated into the website's other languages.

## Colour

Neutral, your brand colour, coral, amber, emerald, sky (the starting one), violet
or rose. The booking page's dark version and a dark website template each draw the
same colour in their own shade, so it stays readable on both.

## Where it shows

At least one place, in any mix:

- **Booking page → Service step** — the first step, where the customer chooses a
  service.
- **Booking page → Upsells step** — the step customers see as *Extras*, on every
  round of it.
- **Your website** — along the top of every page, above the menu. On unless you turn
  it off, for new announcements and for every one written before the website could
  show them. No section is needed and none can be added: the website has no
  announcement block.

The form shows what each place will look like under **Preview**, with a tab for the
booking page and one for the website, and says under **Your website** whether it
will show there — or why not, such as a website not yet published.

## Who sees it

- **Everyone** — the starting choice.
- **Only customers who have booked before** — someone booking for the first time
  doesn't see it. It shows to customers when they're signed in, and on any phone or
  computer that has booked with you before. **It never shows on the website**: the
  website is the same page for every visitor and cannot tell who has booked, so
  **Your website** switches off while this is chosen.

## Link

A web address (starting `http://` or `https://`) and its words, up to 40
characters — both, or neither. On the booking page the link opens in a new tab so a
half-finished booking isn't lost; on the website it opens like any other link.

## Start and end

Both optional, in the business's own time zone. Left empty, it starts now and runs
until you archive it. It shows from the start, and stops at the end.

Your website changes by itself when an announcement starts or ends — within about
five minutes, without pressing Publish — and when you edit, archive or reorder one.

## Order, archiving and deleting

Drag announcements on the list to order them: where there is room for fewer than
are live, the first ones show. **Archive** takes one off everywhere and keeps it
to restore later; **Delete** removes it for good.

## Limits

- **Three live at once.** A fourth is refused until one is archived or ends.
  Scheduled ones that haven't started don't count.
- **Two at a time in each place.** Each booking step shows two at most, and so does
  the website — the first two with **Your website** on, in the list's order. A third
  with **Your website** on waits; its form says so.
- **One language.** Not translated with the website's words.
- **No photo, no button style and no countdown** — an emoji, a heading, a line of
  text and a link.
- **The embedded booking widget is always light**, so the colour shows in its light
  shade there.

## Worked examples

**A barbershop closed for a holiday.** *Closed 24–26 December* goes on the service
step and the website, starting two weeks ahead and ending the day it reopens — a
customer sees it before choosing a time, and a visitor to the website sees it before
looking for the booking button. A physiotherapy clinic closing for a week does the
same.

**A gym with a new class for its members.** *New: Saturday mobility class* is meant
for people who already train there, so it is set to **only customers who have booked
before**. It stays on the booking page; the website, which first-time visitors read
too, carries a general announcement instead.

**A salon introducing a new stylist.** One announcement on the website with a link
to the team page, and a second on the upsells step suggesting the treatment the new
stylist specialises in. Two announcements, each in the place it is meant for.