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Your availability decides what visitors can actually book. It has three parts: the weekly hours you work, exceptions for particular dates and the buffer you keep around each booking. Find all three under Availability in the sidebar.

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Weekly schedule

This is your normal week and the base everything else works from.
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Turn on the days you work

Each day starts closed. Add a time slot to a day to open it.
2

Set the hours

Give each open day a start and end time, like 09:00 to 17:00.
3

Split a day if you need to

Click Add slot to give one day two or more windows. 09:00–12:00 and 14:00–17:00 keeps your lunch out of reach without blocking it in your calendar.
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Save

Click Save schedule. Your booking page updates immediately.
A schedule with no open days hides your booking page. If you want to pause bookings deliberately that’s the way to do it, but it’s an easy accident to have when you’re editing.

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Date overrides

Overrides handle everything that isn’t a normal week: holidays, a conference, a Saturday you’re making an exception for.
  • Day off. Closes a date completely, whatever your weekly schedule says.
  • Available. Opens specific hours on a date, including days you don’t normally work.
Overrides always win over the weekly schedule. Past ones are archived automatically, so the list stays short.
Block your holidays as soon as you book them, not the week before. The whole point of a booking page is that people schedule you while you’re not looking.

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Buffer times

Buffers keep time free either side of a booking, so meetings never run back-to-back. Set Before a booking and After a booking and Tikk applies them everywhere. With a 15-minute buffer after, a call ending at 10:00 makes 10:15 the next bookable slot. The buffer isn’t visible to anyone booking you. Those slots simply aren’t offered. Individual services can override this: a service editor’s Availability section can set its own buffers or fall back to your default. Useful when a 15-minute check-in needs no recovery time but a 90-minute workshop needs twenty minutes to clear the room.
Buffer times are a Pro feature.

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Per-service availability

Beyond buffers, a service can carry its own date overrides. Open the service and add them there when the exception applies to one offering rather than your whole week, say a workshop that only runs on the first Monday of the month.

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Minimum notice

Tikk never offers a slot starting within the next 15 minutes. It’s fixed and applies to everyone, so nobody books you for something starting before you’ve read the email.
How these layers combine, including your connected calendars, is explained in Availability.