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# Pass Duration and Court Booking Limits
## Overview
When you configure a **Reservation Pass** or **Guest Pass**, the **Duration** dropdown limits how long one pass covers for a private reservation. If the pass is scoped to specific **courts** or **areas**, the maximum duration follows those courts' booking limits—not only the company-wide **Max Hours per Reservation** setting.
Use this when one location allows longer reservations than others (for example, a 2-hour court cap at one club while the company default is 1 hour).
### How court limits affect the Duration dropdown
* **No court or area selected** — The dropdown follows **Company Settings → Max Hours per Reservation**. If that limit is not set, durations up to **4 hours** are available.
* **Specific courts selected** — The dropdown uses the **lowest** max booking time among those courts. You can offer a longer pass only when every selected court allows it.
* **Areas selected (without picking courts)** — The same rule applies to all courts in those areas.
{% hint style="info" %}
**Example:** Company max is **1 hour**, but Tigard courts are overridden to **2 hours**. After you select only Tigard courts on the pass, **2 hours** appears in the Duration dropdown and the template saves successfully.
{% endhint %}
### Mixed court limits
If you select courts with different limits (for example, one court at 1 hour and another at 2 hours), the dropdown caps at the **strictest** court—**1 hour** in that example. Narrow the court list or align court overrides before offering a longer pass.
### Validation messages
If the duration does not meet the rules, saving the template may show:
* **Pass duration must be at least 60 minutes and in 30-minute increments** — Duration is under 1 hour or not on a 30-minute step.
* **Pass duration exceeds the maximum booking duration of X hours for the selected courts** — Duration is longer than allowed for the courts (or areas) on that pass.
### Related settings
Company-wide defaults live under **Company Settings → Booking** ([**Max Hours per Reservation**](https://docs.podplay.app/system-restrictions/general-restrictions/reservation-and-event-restrictions#max.-hours-per-reservation) and/or [**Maximum Hour Reservation Play Passes (daily)**](https://docs.podplay.app/system-restrictions/general-restrictions/reservation-and-event-restrictions#max.-daily-reservations-using-play-passes)).
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