Individual Calendar Availability Settings

Beyond your weekly hours, each calendar has a handful of settings that control exactly how — and how often — it can be booked.

The core settings

• Slot duration — how long each appointment lasts.
• Slot interval — how frequently new booking slots appear (for example, every 30 or 60 minutes), independent of the appointment's actual duration.
• Buffer — protected time before or after an appointment so you're not double-booked back-to-back without a break.
• Appointments per slot — how many bookings can be made into the same time slot, useful for group sessions.
• Appointments per day — a cap on how many total appointments this calendar can take in a single day, to protect your overall workload.

Availability controls

• Minimum scheduling notice — how much advance notice is required before someone can book (for example, requiring at least 24–48 hours' notice to prevent last-minute bookings).
• Date range — how far into the future customers are allowed to book (for example, up to 4 weeks ahead).
• Office hours — the specific time windows during which this calendar is bookable at all.
• Event color — a visual tag to help you tell different appointment types apart at a glance on your calendar.

How they work together

Slot interval determines how often a new booking option appears, while slot duration determines how long each one actually lasts — these don't have to match. Buffer time then adds a cushion on either side of the appointment itself, and appointments-per-slot lets you stack multiple bookings into the same window when that makes sense (like a group class).

Where to find these

Open Calendar Settings, edit the calendar, and go to its Availability tab. These settings are specific to each individual calendar and only apply going forward — changing them won't retroactively affect appointments that are already booked.