Bookings calendar: open hours and busy time

See bookings, busy time and open hours together: open Bookings and click Calendar view, then switch between Day, Week, Month and List and show or hide each layer.

Overview

The bookings calendar shows your TidyCal bookings on a calendar, together with the times you are busy and the hours you are open for bookings. It is available on every plan. Open hours and busy time are shown on your own bookings calendar; a team's bookings calendar shows bookings only.

Open the Bookings Calendar

Go to Bookings in the sidebar.
Click the calendar icon (Calendar view) next to the filters. The table icon next to it (Table view) takes you back to the list of bookings; see How do I find, filter and open my bookings?.

Use the arrows and Today to move around. The buttons Day, Week, Month and List change the view. On a phone, the calendar opens on Day with a strip of days across the top.

Bookings, Busy and Open Hours

Three switches above the calendar turn layers on and off:

Bookings — your TidyCal bookings.
Busy — busy events from your connected calendars, plus team bookings you are assigned to. Bookings that TidyCal added to your calendar are not counted twice. This switch appears once busy time has loaded.
Open hours — the hours you are available to be booked.

Week view with Bookings, Busy and Open hours switches and daily open-hours labels such as 8h 45m open

Open hours are the combined availability of your enabled booking types, each worked out the way booking works (the booking type's own hours, a schedule it uses, or your default schedule), minus any blocked dates and times. If you have no enabled booking type, your default schedule is used. Open hours do not take minimum notice, buffers or booking limits into account, so a time shown as open can still be unavailable on your booking page.

Each day can show a label such as 6h open, Fully booked or Closed.

Choose Which Hours Are Shown

The Hours around availability dropdown shows Open hours + 1h or Open hours + 2h (the default). The calendar shows your open hours plus that much time before and after.
Click Show full day to see all 24 hours. The button then reads Use open hours.

Hours around availability dropdown showing Open hours + 1h and + 2h, next to the Show full day button

When some events fall outside the visible hours, a note reads “Events outside these hours may be hidden.” with a Show full day button.

Troubleshooting

I don't see the Busy switch

It appears only after busy time has loaded, which needs a connected calendar or team bookings you are assigned to. To connect a calendar, see Adding Calendars to your TidyCal account.

A booking or event is missing from the calendar

It may be outside the visible hours. Click Show full day.
Check that the Bookings and Busy switches are on.

An open hour isn't bookable on my booking page

Open hours come from your availability only. Minimum notice, buffers and booking limits are not applied to them, and they can remove a time from your booking page. See TidyCal Calendar Not Showing Dates for how to find the cause.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which plans include the bookings calendar?

All of them: Free Plan, Individual Lifetime, Agency Lifetime and Pro.

Where do the open hours come from?

From the availability of your enabled booking types, including the schedules they use. Change them in Availability or in a booking type's Availability tab; see Availability Schedules in TidyCal.

Does a team calendar show open hours and busy time?

No. Open hours and busy time are shown on your own bookings calendar only. A team's calendar shows its bookings.