Should the site save pending requests or hand visitors to a booking provider?
- Custom pending request with staff review
- Verified booking-provider link or supported integration
Choose: Use the system the studio already operates reliably. Start with pending requests when staff decide capacity or readiness context; use a provider when it authoritatively owns inventory and its account, plan, credentials, privacy, retry, and failure paths are verified.
Tradeoff: A custom request keeps fields and states under your control but requires staff follow-up. A provider may confirm capacity directly while adding another account, interface, policy, cost, data flow, and outage boundary.
