Bookable Appointment Slots Google Calendar

STEP 1: Go to your Google Calendar and click on a day to create an event. In the pop-up window, select Appointment slots (see top right of window). Name your appointments and enter the length of. Appointment slots will give you the ability to let other people book an appointment directly on your Google calendar. From a timeframe that you specify. This is useful for booking a 30 minute or one hour, or even a 15 minute time slot. Creating Bookable Appointment Slots in Google Calendar Google Calendar offers a great tool for letting others book selected time on a calendar: Appointment Slots. Set up time(s) you'd like others to book, and then send them the link to your appointments so they can sign up.

Constantly booking appointments can be time consuming and it takes some coordinating to get your clients booked. You can cut time and allow your clients the ability to set up their own appointments by using Google appointment slots.

Here’s some examples on how to use Google appointment slots:

• If you are holding meetings for potential clients, you can create a new appointment slot, send the link to your clients, and they can directly book a time themselves.
• Say you run a Yoga studio you can create an appointment slot on your calendar for clients to reserve private Yoga sessions. Just email the appointment slot link to your clients and let them pick a time.
• If you are a teacher and you want to make available time slots for you students to book with you for one-on-one tuition, just create your “Tuition Booking” appointment slot and let them reserve a time.

To learn how to get started sharing an Google appointment slots see below:

* You will need to have a Google Apps account to create Appointment Slots. You can create a Google Apps account for as low as $5/month here.

Setting Up Appointment Slots

1.Go to Google Calendar and click on the date you want to set for the appointment slots.

2.In the event box, click “Appointment slots”

3.Enter the details of the appointment

4.Once you are done hit “Create”

Invite Others to Book Appointments

Now you can begin to send out invites for users to book their appointments inside the newly created appointment slot.

1.Go to back Google Calendar and click the appointment slot event on the calendar, then click on “Edit Details”

2.Copy the calendar’s appointment page link found at the top of the event

Email this link to people looking to book an appointment.

And you’re done. After receiving the link, clients would need to click on a time slot to book it and once a time is booked, the time is filled in and un-bookable by others.

You can now set up Google appointment slots on your calendar and have them filled out by those you invite with the appointment slot’s link.

This feature will make setting up appointments andscheduling meetings a breeze. Plus it only take a few minutes to set up.

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You can use Google Calendar’s Appointment Slots function to create appointments that other users can book. For example, faculty can create office-hour or class-presentation appointment slots that students can then book themselves. This function creates an additional view of your calendar that only shows the available appointment slots. Visitors can then click on a time slot to book it. Then once a time is booked, the time is filled in and unbookable by others.

Note: Appointment Slots are currently only available to Google Apps users (i.e., not to personal Gmail users). Users must be signed in with their Daemen email to access the appointment slots.

There are several things you can do with appointment slots:

How To Add Appointment Slots To Google Calendar

• Setting up appointment slots
• Adding others to the appointment
• Inviting others to book appointments

Setting Up Appointment Slots

1. Go to Google Calendar.
2. Click on the date you want to set the appointment slots for.
3. In the event box, click “Appointment slots”. Enter the event title, time frame, and slot duration then click save. For example: If you select the time as “9am-11am” and with “slots with duration of 30 minutes” then 4 appointment slots would be createdeach lasting 30 minutes during that time period.

Google Calendar Appointment Slot

4. Once saved, click on the appointment to edit the event and add additional details like location or description.

Adding Others to the Appointments

Adding others to the appointments is not the same as inviting them to book an appointment. When adding someone to the appointments, they will be invited to every appointment so only add people who will be assisting with all the appointments (i.e. – if it is for an Office or Department, you may want to add others in the office so they can see the appointments).

1. Click on the appointment slots and select “Edit”. Enter their username in the “Add Guests” field (to the right).

Inviting Others To Book Appointments

You must set up the actual appointment slots before others can book them.

1. Go to Google Calendar.
2. Click the appointment slot event on the calendar, then click on “Go to appointment page for this calendar”.
3. Copy the calendar’s appointment page link found at the top of the page.
4. Email this link to people looking to book an appointment.