Personal Availability
Participate
Turn the setting off if you want to avoid your availability events being computed for the service. Useful as temporary need, e.g. vacations, as it allows you to keep your availability schedule untouched.
How to define the duration of a single time slot.
Possible options:
Inherited from the entire available interval
Let's say you have scheduled an availability plan that goes like this:
Every day Monday to Friday: from 8:00am to 11:00am and from 2:00pm to 6:00pm.
For example on a generic Monday, you have 2 availability intervals:
8:00am to 11:00am (3 hours)
2:00pm to 5:00pm (4 hours)
By default the plugin splits such intervals into time slots of fixed duration, so assuming that this service has a duration of 1 hour, in the example above you have 7 total time slots on Monday (3 from 8:00am to 11:00am and 4 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm).
Select this option to consider those intervals as whole timeslots instead (so in the example above you have 2 total timeslots on Monday (a 3 hours long and a 4 hours long).
Fixed
If you select this option, the plugin splits availability intervals into time slots of fixed duration. This is the default behavior.
Buffer between consecutive slots
Buffer is the extra time added to a time slot duration that you use to clean up after the appointment, or prepare for the next appointment. So if you have a 30 minute service, but it takes 10 minutes to clean up afterwards, then you add a 10 minute buffer time.
Buffer rule
How the buffer extra time between time slots should be computed.
Possible options:
Always computed between slots
The extra time is always computed between both free and booked slots inside an availability continuous interval. This is the default option and it leads to predictable time slots distribution.
Only computed around booked slots
The buffer is only computed around a booked time slot. It leads to a redistribution of the free time slots when a new reservation is made. This option is not recommended.
Last updated
