Setup order: how trips, seasons, and areas fit together
The order to set things up — how trip types, seasons, areas, and bookings depend on each other.
These pieces build on each other, so setting them up in the right order saves rework. Here's how they relate.
The dependency chain
- Water (optional) — a location you can attach to trip types.
- Trip Type (required first) — species, duration, pricing. Optionally linked to an area.
- Season (requires a trip type) — a dated, year-specific window with capacity.
- Trip (optional) — discrete bookable weeks inside a season.
- Booking (requires a season) — a angler booked into a season, optionally a specific trip.
Recommended order
- (Optional) Add your waters first if you want to tag trips by location.
- Add your trip types — at least one before anything else, since seasons need one.
- Add a season for each trip type and year you'll run.
- (Optional) Add trips inside a season if you sell it by the week.
- Now you can take bookings against those seasons.
You can't create a season without a trip type, and you can't create a booking without a season. Pricing is set once on the trip type and flows down to seasons and bookings.