How to set up availability on calendly?

Process: Booking and scheduling. Reviewed 2026-10-07.

Short answerTo set availability in Calendly, create a named schedule with your weekly hours, edit it as needed, and assign it to the event types it should govern ^[1]. Date-specific hours handle one-off changes such as a day off ^[2]. Your connected calendar also removes times when you are busy ^[2].

The explanation

The help article walks through creating a schedule from the Schedule dropdown, naming it, and editing it ^[1]. Changes save automatically. Then you assign the schedule to chosen event types, so a short consult and a long service can run on different hours.

Calendly's own guide describes three layers: connected calendars that block busy times, a weekly working-hours schedule, and per-event rules such as start-time increments and time zone handling ^[2]. It also lists options for time off, including a busy event on your calendar or date-specific hours ^[2].

For a service business, the lesson is to keep one schedule per real working pattern. A Saturday-only schedule for emergency calls, or a Tuesday-Thursday schedule for estimates, is easier to reason about than one tangled week with many exceptions.

Steps

Create a schedule and name it for the working pattern it represents.
Enter weekly hours and add gaps for lunch or travel.
Assign the schedule to the event types that should use it.
Add date-specific hours for days off, then preview the page.

What to watch for

Forgetting that each schedule is set in a single time zone.
Layering many exceptions on one schedule until nobody can read it.

How Apex does it

In progress

Part of this is built. The rest is not. Status as of 2026-10-07; the badge shows the least-built feature involved.

Apex has lead time and blackout dates, buffer time and tech working hours with availability overrides. Lead time and blackout dates are built, while buffer time and working-hour overrides are in progress.

BK13Lead time and blackout dates(Built)
BK14Buffer time between jobs(In progress)
SC35Tech working hours and availability overrides(In progress)

Apex Flow Scheduler is in early access. See how we label status.

Sources

Calendly Help: set your availability (read 2026-10-07)
Calendly blog: set your availability (read 2026-10-07)

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