How do I show a session only by private link, or pin it as a featured event?

Control discovery: keep an invite-only sauna and cold plunge session off public browse, or highlight a one-off so it is not lost in the week grid. Zettlor gives you hidden-with-access-code offerings and private links today. There is no single placement picker for calendar vs featured vs direct-link-only—and no guaranteed featured pin on the booking page—so use the live controls below for hide vs promote.

What Zettlor does today

Live guides cover:

• Hidden (only visible with access code) on an offering under Scheduling → Configuration (/guides/booking/private-access-code).
• Private Link visibility for store / membership pages (/guides/membership/hidden-plan-link).
• Per-slot open/close and one-off events for calendar presence (/guides/booking/override-one-session, /guides/booking/one-off-event).
• A separate guest calendar vs ops schedule pattern (/guides/booking/guest-calendar-vs-ops).

There is no single Visibility dropdown with Featured-only cards at the top of your booking page. Do not invent Featured / Featured-only toggles. If your booking-page customization includes a highlight control, use it; otherwise promote with a private URL, access code, or homepage link.

Desk path

Private / invite-only session: Scheduling → Configuration → offering → Hidden (only visible with access code), then book invitees from Schedule; or share a private event / Pages → Store Private Link when guests need a URL. Do not use Store → Promos as an unlock.

Featured / pinned event: Zettlor does not offer a Featured-only card pinned above your booking calendar today. Workaround: create the one-off on the schedule, put a clear title, link it from your marketing site or announcement surface, or use booking-page customization if your org’s build exposes a highlight — confirm with onboarding rather than inventing a pin.

Do not invent a settings path beyond what is listed here. If the product does not include a control, the desk workaround is the path.

Failure mode

Staff create a discount promo expecting it to unlock a hidden offering (called out on the live private-access-code guide). Guests still cannot browse the service. Another failure: “featuring” an event only in Instagram while the booking page buries it under dozens of shared blocks — or setting a high-priced event live while memberships still cover it for $0 because placement was confused with price inclusion.

Operator example

For a members-only Sunday circuit, the desk turns on Hidden (only visible with access code) on the offering and books from Schedule. For a public solstice night, they add a one-off event, link it from the homepage and Instagram, and — when a true featured pin is absent — accept that promotion is link-driven rather than inventing a Featured-only switch.

A sauna and cold plunge operator can copy the shape of this example without copying another brand’s private pricing or customer lists.

How to do this

1. Choose the job: hide from browse vs promote above the fold. They are opposite discovery problems.
2. For hide: open Scheduling → Configuration on the offering and enable Hidden (only visible with access code), or use a Private Link store/event URL for link-only sales.
3. Book or share only with the invited list. Staff can still book hidden offerings from Schedule.
4. For promote: add or confirm the one-off / event on the schedule with a distinct name and price. Check membership and punch-pack inclusion so a premium event is not accidentally free.
5. Link the event from your site, embed section, or social. If your booking-page customization includes a highlight control, use it; otherwise do not invent one.
6. Preview as a signed-out guest: hidden items stay off browse; promoted items are reachable from the links you published.

Related questions

Is private link the same as access code?

Related but not identical. Access code hides an offering from public catalog surfaces; Private Link is a URL visibility mode used on store/membership pages. Pick the control that matches the product type.

Does featuring change who pays what?

No. Discovery ≠ price. Set Prices / inclusion so memberships and packs behave the way you intend on premium events.

How is this different from archiving?

Archive (or its workaround) stops a type from running. Visibility changes where a live bookable session appears.

Follow-up guides

• How do I hide a private event behind an access code?
• How do I hide a founding or corporate membership and sell it only by a private link?
• How do I archive a session type I'm not running without deleting its history?
• How do I add a one-off event outside the regular schedule?

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