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Setting your availability

Your availability schedule is the foundation of every booking page: it's the set of hours you're willing to take meetings. 42min starts from your schedule, subtracts your calendar's busy events and your buffers, and shows what's left.

What it is

A named schedule with:

• Weekly hours — for each day of the week, the time ranges you're available (e.g. Mon–Fri, 9:00–17:00). A day with no ranges is treated as unavailable.
• A time zone — the schedule is defined in your time zone. Invitees still see slots in their own zone.
• Date overrides — one-off exceptions for specific dates (e.g. "only 9:00–12:00 on March 14", or "unavailable on December 24").
• Holidays — optionally pull in a country's public holidays and block them.

You can keep more than one schedule (say, "Sales hours" and "Interview hours") and point different event types at different schedules.

When to use it

• The first thing to set up after connecting your calendar.
• Make a second schedule whenever a category of meeting needs different hours than your default — for example, after-hours demo slots, or interview windows that only run in the mornings.

How to do it

1. Open Availability in the dashboard.
2. Edit your default schedule (or create a new one): set the time zone, then add the hours for each weekday. Leave weekends empty if you don't take meetings then.
3. Add date overrides for known exceptions — a half-day, a conference, a day off.
4. Optionally enable holidays for your country so public holidays are blocked automatically.
5. When you create an event type, choose which schedule it uses (it uses your default unless you pick another).

For the deep dive — multiple schedules, date overrides, holidays, time zones, and account-wide meeting caps — see Schedules & availability.

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Common pitfalls

• Booking page shows no slots. Usual causes: the schedule attached to that event type has no hours for the upcoming days, your minimum notice or date range rules out the near term, or your calendar is fully booked.
• Wrong time zone. Slots are computed in the schedule's time zone. If yours is set wrong, every slot is off — fix it on the schedule (and check your profile time zone too).
• Forgot the override. Weekly hours don't know about your trip next week — add a date override (or mark the days unavailable) so you don't get booked while away.