POST /v2/bookings - Square API Reference

Create booking

POST

/v2/bookings

Creates a booking.

The required input must include the following:

Booking.location_id
Booking.start_at
Booking.AppointmentSegment.team_member_id
Booking.AppointmentSegment.service_variation_id
Booking.AppointmentSegment.service_variation_version

To call this endpoint with buyer-level permissions, set APPOINTMENTS_WRITE for the OAuth scope. To call this endpoint with seller-level permissions, set APPOINTMENTS_ALL_WRITE and APPOINTMENTS_WRITE for the OAuth scope.

For calls to this endpoint with seller-level permissions to succeed, the seller must have subscribed to Appointments Plus or Appointments Premium.

Permissions:APPOINTMENTS_WRITE

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Request body

Example code

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idempotency_key

string

A unique key to make this request an idempotent operation.

Max Length

255

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booking

Required

The details of the booking to be created.

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Response fields

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booking

The booking that was created.

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errors

Errors that occurred during the request.

curl https://connect.squareup.com/v2/bookings \ -X POST \ -H 'Square-Version: 2025-10-16' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{ "booking": { "customer_id": "EX2QSVGTZN4K1E5QE1CBFNVQ8M", "start_at": "2020-11-26T13:00:00Z", "location_id": "LEQHH0YY8B42M", "appointment_segments": [ { "duration_minutes": 60, "team_member_id": "TMXUrsBWWcHTt79t", "service_variation_id": "RU3PBTZTK7DXZDQFCJHOK2MC", "service_variation_version": 1599775456731 } ] } }'

{ "booking": { "id": "zkras0xv0xwswx", "version": 0, "status": "ACCEPTED", "created_at": "2020-10-28T15:47:41Z", "updated_at": "2020-10-28T15:47:41Z", "location_id": "LEQHH0YY8B42M", "customer_id": "EX2QSVGTZN4K1E5QE1CBFNVQ8M", "customer_note": "", "seller_note": "", "start_at": "2020-11-26T13:00:00Z", "appointment_segments": [ { "duration_minutes": 60, "service_variation_id": "RU3PBTZTK7DXZDQFCJHOK2MC", "team_member_id": "TMXUrsBWWcHTt79t", "service_variation_version": 1599775456731 } ] }, "errors": [] }