# Capacities system
The event capacities system allows fine-grained control over the number of bookings that any given event can take.
# Total capacity
Total capacity is the maximum number of bookings that can be made on a given event.
- Limited - bookings for this event will be limited to the given number
- Unlimited - any number of bookings can be made for this event
- Disabled - no bookings for this event can be made
- Default - the limit for bookings on this event should be the same as the event type.
# Capacity by booking type
You can also specify a maximum number of each type of booking that can be made on a given event.
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Capacity on an event can also be specified per booking type - but the total capacity will still apply.
For example, if you have an event with a total capacity of 5 bookings, and a limit of 10 bookings on each booking type, it will still only be possible to make 5 bookings for the event.
- Limited - bookings of this booking type will be limited to the given number
- Unlimited - any number of bookings of this booking type can be made for the event
- Disabled - no bookings of this booking type for this event can be made
- Default - the limit for bookings of this booking type on this event should be the same as on the event type.
# Setting capacity on the event type
If all or most of your events of a given type will have the same capacity limits, you can set the capacity limits on the event type and have these automatically be carried down to events.
Events should have the default limit set for total and by booking type capacities, which they will automatically have unless you change them.
WARNING
Capacity limits set on event types apply to events individually, not as a whole.
For example, a limit of 100 on an event type will mean each event can have 100 bookings, and not that there can be 100 bookings across all events of that event type.