Availability calendar

The availability calendar is a month-view grid where you mark days or half days as available, tentative, or unavailable. Select a period (All day, AM, or PM) and a status, then choose any day to apply it. Choose a marked day again to clear it. Days that have already passed cannot be marked or changed. The calendar is on every plan, including free Basic: compare Sessional plans→ for what Plus adds, such as calendar sync.

• All day: marks the entire day
• AM (morning): marks the morning only (before 13:00)
• PM (afternoon): marks the afternoon only (13:00 onwards)

You can set different statuses for morning and afternoon on the same day. For example, mark the morning as available and the afternoon as unavailable. A day with two different halves is drawn as a split cell, morning on the left and afternoon on the right. Marking a day All day replaces any morning or afternoon marks already on it; a half-day mark set afterwards changes only its own half.

• Available (green): you are free and willing to take bookings
• Tentative (amber): you may be available but have not confirmed
• Unavailable (red): you are not available for work
• Booked (teal): a confirmed booking is scheduled. This is set automatically and cannot be changed manually.

To mark multiple days at once, click Block book dates. Then:

1. Choose your period (All day, AM, or PM) and status (Available, Tentative, or Unavailable)
2. Click a start date on the calendar
3. Click an end date: the range highlights in between
4. Review the confirmation bar showing the date range and day count
5. Click Apply to set all dates at once, or Cancel to clear

Block booking skips any dates that are already booked. The review bar with Apply sits above the calendar. The range is capped at 90 days and cannot start on a day that has passed. This is useful for marking a full week as available or blocking out a holiday.

When you accept a booking request→ or confirm a booking, the availability calendar updates automatically:

• A morning booking (starting before 13:00, ending by 13:00) marks the morning as booked
• An afternoon booking (starting at 13:00 or later) marks the afternoon as booked
• A full-day booking (spanning morning and afternoon) marks the entire day as booked

Booked is read from your confirmed bookings each time the calendar is shown, so a booking never overwrites a mark you set yourself. If a booking is cancelled, the day or half day goes back to whatever you had marked underneath it (for example Unavailable), or to unmarked if you had marked nothing.

You control whether your availability calendar appears on your public profile. Toggle this from your profile settings→ under "Visibility".

When enabled, organisations viewing your profile can see which days and half days you are available, for this month and the next two, before they send a booking request→.

• Keep your calendar up to date. Organisations are more likely to request locums with clear availability
• Use half days to show partial availability, e.g. free mornings but unavailable afternoons
• Use tentative for days where you might be available depending on rate or location
• Booked slots update automatically. You do not need to manually block out confirmed bookings
• Your confirmed bookings appear in the iCal feed if you use calendar sync (Plus and above). Availability itself is not exported