Duration #
Duration is the length of the meeting written to your calendar. You can offer a fixed length, several options for the invitee to choose from, or a custom value in minutes. When multiple durations are offered, slot generation runs against the longest option so that a booking can never overflow into a conflict.
Buffers #
Buffers protect the time immediately around a meeting.
- Before event reserves preparation time and prevents a booking starting too soon after the previous one ends.
- After event reserves wrap-up time for notes, travel, or follow-up.
Buffers are invisible to invitees. They see only the slots that survive the calculation, never the reserved gaps themselves.
Start Time Increments #
The increment controls the interval at which slots are offered. A thirty-minute meeting with a fifteen-minute increment offers 9:00, 9:15, 9:30 and so on, which surfaces more choices but fragments the day. A sixty-minute increment on the same event produces tidy hourly slots at the cost of fewer options.
A Worked Example #
Suppose working hours run 09:00 to 12:00, the event is 30 minutes, there is a 10-minute after-event buffer, and the increment is 30 minutes. An existing meeting occupies 10:00 to 10:30.
- Candidate starts: 09:00, 09:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30.
- 10:00 is removed as a direct conflict.
- 10:30 is removed because the existing meeting’s after-event buffer runs to 10:40.
- Offered slots: 09:00, 09:30, 11:00, 11:30.
Tuning Advice #
If your page looks emptier than expected, buffers are the usual cause. Open Availability and compare your defined working hours against the bookable preview; the difference is exactly what buffers and conflicts have removed.
