Your calendar and availability

Once your Google Calendar is connected, Focal doesn’t offer clients times when you’re busy. Without it, clients see every time within your available hours as open, even times you’ve already booked in Focal.

Connect Google Calendar before you set a package to Booking With Calendar or Instant Book.

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Clients can book any time the calendars you tick show as free, so keep them up to date. If you don’t, set your packages to Contact Form Only and ask for the date in their contact form.

When you accept a booking request or create a booking with a date, Focal adds it to your Google Calendar. To leave one out, untick Add Event to Google Calendar first.

Focal connects to Google Calendar only. If you use another calendar app, such as Apple Calendar, set it up to show in your Google Calendar, then tick it under View and Select.

Under AVAILABLE DAYS, click a day to turn it on or off. Then set the start and end time for each day under AVAILABLE HOURS.

To add a second time range to a day, such as a morning and an evening, click the plus icon beside it.

Make sure each day’s hours are long enough for your longest package. A client can only choose a start time if the whole package fits before your hours end.

Click Save Changes at the top of the page when you’re done.

To limit how far ahead clients can book a package, use Weeks Available in the package. See Packages and booking options.

Under Buffer, choose how much time to keep free after each event in your Google Calendar before the next booking can start. Then click Save Changes.

For example, set 1 hour to leave time to travel between shoots.