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I use Calendly to schedule language testing appointments. Basically, I need to be 1:1 with the student for the first 15-30 minutes. Then, they are on their own for a written test. I want them to book an appointment for 1 hour and 15 minutes so they know how long it will take, but I want to move onto doing other 1:1s while they are doing the written test. 

 

Right now, I have it set up in Free/busy rules to allow students to “book over” other appointments. But, sometimes I end up with three people arriving at 9:00 (until 10:15). I instead want only one 9:00 option bookable, with the next option being 9:30, not 10:45. This is what happened before I started the “book over” setting, so I was sitting there with dead time waiting for the next appointment.

 

Is there another or better way to adjust the settings? I essentially want the booking page to look like:

9:00-10:15

9:30-10:45

10:00-11:15

10:30-11:45 …. and so on

 

I know as a workaround I can add an event that can’t be booked over after so there’s not future bookings, but I send the invitation out to multiple people at a time so I can’t stay on top of that.

Hi ​@Siobhan18584 - Thanks for reaching out!

Unfortunately, at this time there is not a way to have this type of setup in Calendly at the moment. The best way to go about this would be to have two separate events as you’ve described. Right now the overlap tool does not have a way you can adjust it.

However, I do think this is good feedback to keep in mind, I’ve gone ahead and passed this on to our product team for them to review!

Let me know if you have any questions.


Thank you, David! I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something.