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Set your weekly business schedule
Set the business timezone, weekly availability, breaks, dated exceptions and separate service windows, then check the public booking slots.
By Bookibles Editorial Team · Reviewed by Bookibles Product Team · Updated
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Check your business Time zone first. Open Availability → Edit availability, set your recurring week, add any breaks and dated exceptions, then choose Save availability. Scheduled services inherit the business schedule unless you configure a Custom schedule for the service. Verify every affected booking page.
1. Confirm the business timezone
Open Public page, then its Location section. Check Time zone under Business time zone, enter the appropriate IANA zone such as Europe/London, and choose Save profile after a change. Availability displays that zone. Use the business’s operating timezone; do not assume the browser’s timezone is the one customers are booking.
2. Open the weekly availability editor
Select Availability in the business workspace and choose Edit availability. An owner or a member with the appropriate schedule permission must make changes. Read the timezone at the top before setting hours.
3. Set the recurring week
Use Weekdays 9–5 or Every day 9–5 as a starting template only if it matches your hours. Each day has an availability switch and opening/closing times. Close entire week switches all days off. Copy can apply one day’s hours to other days; copied/template changes offer one-step Undo. Review every day before saving.
4. Add recurring business breaks
Under Recurring business breaks choose Add break. Select the Day, give it a Label and enter Starts and Ends. In the sample, Monday lunch is 12:00–13:00. Add a separate break for each day that needs it. A business break blocks availability across services; it is different from a booking sharing capacity across those services.
5. Add closures or custom dates
Under Closures and custom dates choose Add date. Enter Date and a helpful Label. Leave Closed on for a day off. Turn Closed off and enter Opens and Closes for a date with different hours. Review the date carefully, then choose Save availability. Wait for Availability saved and reopen the editor to check the saved values.
6. Give a service its own window when needed
Open Services, choose Edit for the service and go to Availability. Enable Custom schedule and set its open days and start/end times. Review Summary and choose Update service. Flexible requests do not use this schedule control; time-only recurring hours are configured under Booking rules.
7. Separate services that share one person
For example, give a 60-minute facial a 09:00–12:00 window and a second 60-minute service a 13:00–17:00 window. Keep the end of the first appointment and your turnaround time inside the first window. Limit bookings per slot: 1 still applies separately to each service. These intentionally separate windows are your operating setup, not automatic staff or room management.
8. Verify the offered public slots
Open both service booking links as a guest. Use More dates → to inspect a future open date. Check that the first service offers morning times and the second afternoon times; also check a break and a closed date. If slots differ from your intention, fix the relevant schedule before sharing the link. Do not infer a slot is available just because it appeared before another customer booked.
Example: a saved week and a Monday break
The fictional studio in these screenshots uses Europe/London. Its example week is open 09:00–17:00, with a Monday 12:00–13:00 business break and a separately saved dated closure. Set only hours your own business can actually accept.
Example: give the morning service its own schedule
| Service | Occupied duration | Service window | Expected offered starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signature facial | 60 minutes | 09:00–12:00 | Morning starts that finish by noon |
| Returning-client facial | 60 minutes | 13:00–17:00 | Afternoon starts that finish by 17:00 |
What to check when a time is missing
Changing hours changes what can be offered; it does not automatically cancel or move existing appointments. Resolve an existing conflict with the customer and update the booking itself. Google Calendar synchronization is asynchronous and requires an eligible plan; it is not a shared practitioner calendar across different Bookibles services.
- Correct business timezone and selected date.
- Open weekly or dated hours, plus the service’s custom schedule when enabled.
- Recurring business breaks and applicable service breaks.
- Full occupied duration fitting inside the window, and the configured start interval.
- Advance booking window, service activation and whether the business is accepting bookings.
- Existing allocations for this service and eligible imported Google Calendar busy blocks, if connected.