Set your availability
Tell Your Day Schedule when you're open — working hours, buffers, a daily limit, and time off — and it offers clients only the slots that truly work, each shown in their own timezone.
Your availability lives at Dashboard → Availability. Everything below combines into the exact slots clients can pick — and clients always see those slots converted to their own timezone.
Set your working hours
The Working hours card is where you set the hours you're open, day by day (Monday–Sunday), in 30-minute steps. New accounts start at 9:00–17:00.
- To take a break in the middle of a day, add a second segment — e.g. 9:00–12:00 and 1:30–5:00 leaves lunch off. Use the + to add a segment, the remove icon to delete one.
- Leave a day with no hours to mark it fully unavailable (e.g. weekends).
- Your timezone is shown at the top of the card — every hour you set is interpreted in it. Clients in other timezones see the converted times automatically.
- Click Save when you're done.
Working hours are your recurring weekly schedule. For one-off changes — a single busy afternoon or a week of vacation — use Blocked dates below instead of editing your weekly hours.
Buffers and daily limits
The Buffer card adds breathing room and caps busy days:
- Before each meeting — padding held open before every booking (e.g. 10 minutes to prep).
- After each meeting — padding after every booking (e.g. 15 minutes for notes or travel).
- Daily limit — the most meetings that can be booked in a single day.
Buffers block the surrounding time from being booked, and the daily limit stops a single day from being overbooked.
Block dates and time off
The Blocked dates card is for holidays, vacation, or one-off days off:
- Pick a Start date (and an optional End date for a range).
- Add an optional Reason so you remember why later.
- Save — those days drop off your booking page.
If you have Google Calendar connected, YourDay also adds a "Blocked" event for those days so the time off shows on your calendar too.
How bookable slots work
A time is offered to a client only when all of these are true:
- It falls inside your working hours for that weekday.
- It isn't inside a buffer around another booking.
- The day hasn't hit its daily limit.
- The date isn't blocked.
- It doesn't clash with an event on a connected calendar (Google, Outlook, or iCloud) — connect one under Availability → Calendar connections so your outside events block your slots automatically.
- The meeting's full duration still fits before your working hours end.
Everything is calculated in your timezone, then shown to each client in theirs.
If something's off
No slots show on my booking page
- Confirm you have working hours set for that weekday.
- Check the date isn't in your Blocked dates.
- Make sure the day hasn't reached its daily limit.
- A long meeting type may not fit late in the day — try an earlier time.
Slots appear at the wrong time
Check the timezone on the Working hours card. Clients see times converted to their timezone, which is expected — the times are correct relative to yours.
An outside meeting isn't blocking my availability
That calendar probably isn't connected. Open Availability → Calendar connections and connect Google, Outlook, or iCloud so its events reserve your time.
Still stuck? Email support@yourdayschedule.com — we answer quickly.