Bookings
Where every appointment your AI books shows up, plus the calendar settings that decide what your AI can offer callers.
The Bookings tab is your calendar. When a caller asks for an appointment, your AI checks the right person's availability, finds an open slot, books it, and the new booking appears here. You can also create, reschedule, or cancel bookings yourself.
What this tab is
The workspace has five tabs across the top, plus a Settings panel reached from the gear icon in the header:
- Today — the day's schedule as a hot list, so the first thing you see is what's happening now.
- Calendar — every confirmed, completed, cancelled, or no-show booking on a month grid. Click a day to see what's on it; click a booking to view details, reschedule, or cancel.
- Appointments — the work queue. Buckets along the top let you flip between upcoming appointments, the Waitlist (callers who asked for a time you couldn't offer), and recurring series.
- Auto-sends — the booking-related automatic messages: confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups.
- Alerts — notifications tied to bookings.
- Settings — opened by the gear icon in the header, it slides over the current tab rather than being a tab of its own. Inside, seven sections hold every rule your AI follows when booking: Types & duration, Hours, Rules, Behavior, Booking fields, Resources, and Blocked dates.
How availability is decided
Your AI doesn't just check one set of hours. It walks three layers, in order:
- 1Business hours (the umbrella) — when you're open at all. Outside this, nothing books.
- 2Booking-window hours — when bookings are allowed inside business hours. Often narrower (e.g., open 8-6 but only book 9-5 to leave buffer at edges).
- 3Per-team-member hours — when each specific person is bookable. A member can have hours narrower than the booking window (part-time), time-off blocks, and an optional direct calendar (Google or iCal) the system reads in real time to skip busy slots.
How to use it
- 1Open Settings from the gear icon and start with Types & duration. Pick which booking types apply to your business (e.g. consultation, demo, follow-up) and set the duration of each. Your AI will only offer types that are turned on.
- 2In the Rules section, set buffer and advance-notice. Buffer is the gap between bookings (good for travel or paperwork). Advance notice is the soonest a caller can book — set this so callers can't book a slot 5 minutes from now.
- 3Use Blocked dates to mark days you're closed. Whole-business blackouts apply to everyone; per-team-member blackouts apply only to that person and don't shut the whole calendar.
- 4Connect outside calendars in Settings → Hours, under "Connected Calendars". Link a Google Calendar or an iCal feed — once connected, busy events on that calendar block the matching member from being booked. Updates as fast as the calendar feed propagates.
- 5Switch to Today or Calendar to watch the schedule. As your AI books appointments, they appear in real time. Filter by booking type or status using the controls above the calendar.
- 6When a caller wants a time you're full, they can go on the waitlist — find it as a bucket inside the Appointments tab. If someone else cancels, the waitlist is checked first and the matching caller is texted.
Common questions
My AI isn't offering bookings. Why?
Either booking is paused (Settings → Behavior), no booking types are enabled, or the business hours aren't set. Walk down the three availability layers above — the first one that says "closed" stops the chain.
A booking shows up here but the caller never confirmed.
Your AI confirms the slot before saving — if a booking landed here, the caller said yes. If you're seeing duplicate or stale bookings, cancel them and they move out of the active calendar.
Can I add a booking myself without a phone call?
Yes. Click "New Booking" in the top right, pick a date and time, attach a contact (or create one), and save. It shows up the same as AI-created bookings.
What's the difference between cancelled and no-show?
Cancelled means the booking was called off (by you or the caller) before the time. No-show means the time passed and the caller didn't arrive. Both keep the booking on the calendar so you have the history but don't count as completed.
Will the waitlist auto-book someone if a slot opens?
Only if you turn on auto-book in Settings → Behavior, where the waitlist controls live. Otherwise the waitlist sends a text saying the slot is available and the caller has to confirm — your call.
I blocked a date for one team member but the whole calendar is closed.
Blackouts have a scope — whole-business or per-member. If you added it without picking a member, it defaults to whole-business. Open the blackout, set the resource to the specific member, and the rest of the team stays bookable.
My Google Calendar event isn't blocking the slot.
Calendar sync runs on the connection set up in Settings → Hours, under "Connected Calendars", scoped to a specific team member. Check the connection there — is the member's name on it, and is the link still authorized? All-day events and events marked "Free" don't block — only busy timed events do.
Business hours and Team
Both layers — business hours and per-member hours/calendars — are configured on the Receptionist tab.
Booking types and durations
Configured under Bookings → Settings.
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