# Set your availability

> Set working hours, appointment length, booking windows, blocked dates, and capacity on an Appointment Booking field.

Set availability on each **Appointment Booking** field. Customers see only times inside your hours, booking window, blocked-date rules, and remaining capacity.

Your workspace needs [Services access](/services/what-is-services-mode) before you use this setup.

Add a required **Email** field before configuring customer identity. Keep that field visible for every customer.

### Add the field

1. Open the form builder.
2. Select **Add field**.
3. Add **Appointment Booking**.
4. Open **Advanced edit** for that field.

### Set hours and slot length

5. Choose the service **Timezone**.

![Availability settings for an Appointment Booking field](/docs-assets/services/set-your-availability-1.png)

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6. Set **Weekly hours** for each open day.
7. Set **Slot duration**.
8. Set **Buffer between slots**.

### Set booking windows, blocked dates and capacity

9. Set **Minimum notice**.
10. Set **Earliest booking**.
11. Set **Latest booking**.
12. Add holidays or time off under **Blocked dates**.
13. Set **Capacity per slot**.
14. Select the required email field under **Customer email**.
15. Select **Save changes**.

Set working hours in your business timezone. The editor's timezone helper is outdated: customers first see their detected timezone, with the business timezone as a fallback.

On the booking page, **Change** switches between the customer's timezone and yours.

Turn a day off when you never accept appointments that day. Use more than one time range when you need a break between working periods.

For a lunch break, use separate ranges such as 09:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 17:00.

| Setting | What it controls | Example |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Slot duration | How long the appointment lasts | 60 minutes for a lesson |
| Buffer between slots | Extra time before the next appointment can start | 15 minutes between lessons |
| Minimum notice | How many hours ahead a customer must book | 24 hours to prepare |
| Earliest booking | How many days ahead the booking window starts | 0 allows today, subject to notice |
| Latest booking | How many days ahead customers may book | 60 limits advance bookings to about two months |
| Blocked dates | Whole dates when appointments are unavailable | A holiday or day off |
| Capacity per slot | Separate customers allowed in the same time slot | 1 for an individual lesson |

## If the form shows no times, then review every limit

Confirm at least one day is open. Then check the date is inside both booking limits, outside **Blocked dates**, and far enough beyond **Minimum notice**.

A full slot also disappears. The buffer changes when the next appointment can start, but it does not extend the customer's appointment length.