Availability
Your availability decides which times clients can book. Set it once, and your booking page only ever offers slots that work for you.
Find these settings under Bookings → Settings → Availability.
Weekly availability
You get a row for each day of the week. Switch a day on or off, and add one or more time ranges to it.
- Turning a day on starts you at 09:00–17:00. Adjust it to your real hours.
- Add more ranges with + Add time range: handy if you take a midday break.
- Ranges on the same day can't overlap.
Booking rules
Four settings shape how and when clients can book:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Buffer time | A gap reserved before and after each booking, so you're never back-to-back. Default is 30 minutes. |
| Advance notice | The minimum time before a slot can be booked. Default is 24 hours. |
| Max booking window | How far ahead clients can book. Default is 365 days. |
| Timezone | The timezone your hours are set in. Search to find yours. |
These save together with your weekly hours from the Save bar.
Schedule exceptions
Exceptions override your normal hours for a specific date, for a day off, a vacation, or a one-off shoot outside your usual window.
Click Add exception, pick a Date, then choose:
- Block availability: make the whole day unbookable, or pick Block only part of the day.
- Set custom hours: open up only the hours you choose on that date.
Add an optional Reason to remind yourself why (like Doctor's appointment, vacation, or studio maintenance). Your exceptions show in a list, and you can remove any of them. Past exceptions hide themselves once the date has gone by.
Custom hours for a single service
Most services use the general availability above. But a self-service service can run on its own schedule instead.
In the service editor, turn on Use custom schedule. That service then gets its own weekly hours, timezone, buffer time, advance notice, and booking window, an Avoid conflicts with Google Calendar toggle, and its own schedule exceptions. Leave it off and the service follows your general availability.
What clients see
Your booking page builds its available slots from your weekly windows, then removes anything that doesn't fit. It respects your buffer time, advance notice, and booking window, skips blocked dates and slots that are already booked or held, and, if you've connected Google Calendar, hides times when your calendar is busy.
This way, clients only ever see times you can actually take.