Preview your booking schedule to check everything looks right before you sync it to Google Calendar and go live.
Where to Find This
Services → Bookings → Booking Management → Locations & Hours sub-tab
Calendar Preview lives on the Locations & Hours sub-tab. The Preview Calendar and Publish changes buttons appear in the top-right toolbar once you've created at least one location. Before that, use the Add Location button in the empty state to add your first one.
What Calendar Preview Shows
A visual calendar of:
- Your configured locations and fixed time slots
- Working-hours shading for locations using dynamic availability
- Confirmed customer bookings that have already come in
It's a pre-go-live check, separate from the day-to-day View Calendar and All Bookings tabs you use to manage real bookings.
Always preview after creating or editing locations with fixed slots — it's much easier to fix issues here than after syncing.
Opening and Closing the Preview
- Go to Services → Bookings → Booking Management → Locations & Hours sub-tab.
- Click Preview Calendar (top right, next to Add Location). The calendar opens below your locations list.
- To close it, click Hide Calendar Preview.
The preview window covers 06:00 to 22:00.
Reading the Calendar
- Each location has its own colour, so you can tell slots apart at a glance.
- Fixed slots appear as coloured event blocks with their time, service and capacity.
- Working hours for dynamic locations appear as background shading (individual appointment times are generated live when customers book, so they aren't drawn here).
- Confirmed bookings stand out with a ✓ tick and a deeper green. Click one to see the customer's plan, the attendees and their emails, spots taken, where the booking came from, and a link to open it in Google Calendar.
Click any event to open its details.
Confirmed bookings only appear once your Google Calendar is connected. The available slots you've set up are always shown.
Views
On a computer you can switch between Week, Month and Day views using the buttons in the top right, and move through time with ◀ Previous, Today and Next ▶:
- Week — your day-to-day schedule at a glance; best for spotting time conflicts. Click any day to list its events below the calendar.
- Month — the big picture; click a date to list that day's events below the calendar.
- Day — a single day, hour by hour, with that day's events always listed below the calendar.
The list below the calendar sets out each session's time, event and location in a tidy table — a quick way to read a busy day. In Week and Month view a Clear link hides it again; in Day view it simply follows whichever day you're viewing.
On a phone or tablet, the preview is locked to Day view — the Week and Month switches, along with drag-and-drop and resizing, are available on desktop only.
Adjusting on Desktop
On a computer you can drag an event to a different time or resize it by its edges. These are preview-only gestures for trying things out — they don't save any changes. To actually change a slot, edit the location.
Syncing After Preview
When you're happy with how the schedule looks:
- Close the preview (optional).
- Click Publish changes (top right). This button is only active when you have unpublished slot changes to publish — if it's greyed out, there's nothing new to sync.
- Wait for confirmation. Your schedule is now live.
Dynamic availability is calculated live from your working hours and Google Calendar, so it doesn't need a manual sync — only fixed-slot changes do.
Troubleshooting
Preview shows nothing? Make sure you've created at least one location, and that it has fixed slots or working hours configured.
A slot is missing? Navigate forward or back to its date, check the slot's recurrence, and confirm you saved the location after adding it.
Times look wrong? Double-check the slot's start time and duration, and that your time zone is correct.
What Preview Doesn't Show
Calendar Preview shows your availability and your confirmed bookings, but not your personal Google Calendar events, booking quota information, or payment details. For a fuller day-to-day view, use the View Calendar and All Bookings tabs — see Managing Customer Bookings.