Update your availability for appointments

You can customise your appointment schedule to make it easier for people to view your availability.

Set appointment schedule start and end dates

Important: You can only set start and end dates for recurring appointment schedules. Learn how to set a recurring appointment schedule.

You can choose the dates that you want your appointment schedule to start and end.

1. On a computer, open Google Calendar.
2. Click an existing appointment schedule Edit appointment schedule .
3. Click Scheduling window Start and end dates.
4. Choose the dates that you want your appointment schedule to start and end.
5. Click Done.
6. To save the updated schedule, click Next Save.

Change a date's availability

You can choose specific dates when you're more or less available than usual.

1. On a computer, open Google Calendar.
2. Click an existing appointment schedule Edit appointment schedule .
3. Under 'Adjusted availability', click Change a date's availability.
4. Choose the date you want to adjust.
5. Change the time range to show the times that you're available.
   • If you're not available on that date at all, click Unavailable all day .
   • To add more than one available time range, click Add a time .
   • To remove a date exception, next to the date and time, click Remove .

6. To save the updated schedule, click Next Save.

Tip: You can adjust availability for dates that are outside of a recurring schedule with start and end dates.

Manage booked appointment settings

To avoid back-to-back appointments, you can turn on and adjust buffer time.

1. On a computer, open Google Calendar.
2. Click an existing appointment schedule Edit appointment schedule .
3. Click Booked appointment settings.
4. To add time between appointments:
   1. Next to 'Buffer time', tick the box.
   2. Enter the buffer time.
5. To limit the number of appointments to accept in a day:
   1. Next to 'Maximum bookings per day', tick the box.
   2. Enter the maximum number of appointments to accept per day.
6. To save the updated schedule, click Next Save.