As you set up your booking page, you will want to consider how you'd like YouCanBookMe to show your availability for bookings. This article will guide you through the setup process step by step.
Repeating availability is included in all our plans, even the Free one. For Calendar Managed availability, you can find it in our Professional and Team plans.
How to set up Repeating availability
This setup is perfect if you have regular working hours each week and want to fill your calendar with client bookings during your free time. You can easily block off any time within these standard hours by adding a busy event to your linked calendar.
1. Under "When" select Repeating Availability and you'll set standard work hours for each day, unchecking any day you'll never offer a time slot for booking. These set days/hours will be applied to your booking page week by week. YouCanBookMe will scan your linked calendar during your set work hours and display any time for booking where we don't find a conflicting event.
A conflicting event is any event set to busy on your linked Google or Outlook calendar. To block out a day or time for booking, add busy events to your linked calendar.
Setting up availability for your team?
These hours will apply to every team member on your booking page - they'll need to block out the time they're not available for booking between the set working hours by adding busy events to their calendar. Learn more about setting up availability for your team.
Need to make changes to your schedule?
Adjusting these hours on your booking page will not affect any bookings you've already received, but will change future availability for bookings.
How to set up Calendar Managed availability
This setup is recommended if you don't work a standard schedule from week to week, you want to limit the times your clients can book with you, or you have specific start times you want to offer on your booking page.
Calendar Managed Availability gives you the flexibility to change the times you offer for booking from week to week or limit the times YouCanBookMe will display for booking on a booking page.
The setup requires that you add events to your linked calendar on the day and times you want to be available for booking, using the key phrase you've designated on your booking page.
Once you have set it up, you can add or remove availability by simply adding or removing the events on your linked calendar - no need to adjust any settings within YouCanBookMe.
1. Under "When" select Calendar Managed Availability and you'll set standard work hours for each day, unchecking any day you'll never offer a time slot for booking. Set the widest range of working hours you might take a booking.
2. Create a title for your events that will help you identify the times you're available for booking in your linked calendar.
When you first turn on Calendar Managed Availability, the booking page preview will show "No Availability." It will show this message until you've added blocks of time you're available for booking to your linked calendar. Refresh the preview once you've added blocks to your calendar.
3. Under When: Duration & Availability, adjust your meeting duration.
4. To complete the setup, open your linked calendar and start creating events for the times you want to be available for bookings.
5. Make sure each calendar event has the same title as the one you set on your booking page. Also, don't forget to change the status to Free (instead of the default Busy). This way, YouCanBookMe will show those available time slots for booking.
Setting up calendar-managed availability for your team?
Each team member will add these events to their calendar on the days and times they want to be available to take bookings. More about setting up team availability here. Need more help? Check out this troubleshooting guide.
Managing Calendar Managed availability
- Taking a vacation? Delete the availability block from your linked calendar, and that time will no longer be available for booking
- Want multiple breaks in a day? Add several Calendar Managed Availability blocks to your calendar, with a desired break in between
- Need to add availability for a certain day? Make sure you've set that day as available for booking in YouCanBookMe, and add a new block on your calendar.
- Need availability all day? Add an all-day event to your calendar with the same title - your entire working hours that day will display for booking until conflicting events are added to your calendar.
- Have multiple booking pages? Each booking page can carry its own unique Calendar Managed Availability events, allowing you to designate different availability for different appointments or different locations.
- How do new bookings appear? New bookings will appear on top of your Calendar Managed Availability block. You can delete the Calendar Managed Availability block from your calendar once you've received a booking, but if that booking cancels, the time will not re-open for booking until that block is added back to your linked calendar.
- Any busy events you add during the length of your Calendar Managed Availability block will act as a conflict and prevent you from being booked.
For further questions, contact our team at support@youcanbook.me.
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