Create Appointment Slots In Google Calendar

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  • How to make appointment slots in Google Calendar.
  • Using your work or school account on a computer, open Google Calendar. Make sure that you're in Week view or any Day view. Click anywhere in the calendar. In the event box that pops up, click.
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Appointment Slots

Using appointment slots

The appointment slots feature lets you set one period of time on your calendar, divided into available time slots for people to reserve. For instance, professors can have their students reserve time during office hours each week, or the library could let anyone visiting their website schedule an appointment for a room during a set time period.

Note that in order to reserve one of your appointment slots, people will need to have a Google Calendar account themselves. But it's free and easy for them to create an account, so don't let that stop you from creating appointment slots!

This is a handy tool with many possibilities. Read on to learn how to set up and start using it.

Set up appointment slots

  1. Sign in to your Georgia Southern Google account and go to your calendar
  2. Make sure that you're in Week view or any Day view, since the appointment slots can't be created when you're using any of the other Calendar views.
  3. Click anywhere in the calendar grid. In the event bubble that pops up, click Appointment slots.
  4. Indicate the details for the appointment slots using these fields:
    1. What: Enter a short title for the appointment slots, like 'Professor Brown’s Office Hours.'
    2. Calendar drop-down menu: Choose the calendar in which you'd like to create the appointment slots.
    3. Offer as a single appointment: Select this button if the entire time will be used for one appointment.
    4. Split into smaller slots: Select this option if you'd like to allow multiple appointments to be scheduled during the block of time. Simply select and indicate the duration for each appointment (in minutes) in the text box to the right.
  5. If you're all finished, click Create slots on the bubble, or continue to the next step to add more details to your appointment slots.
  6. Click Edit details to open the appointment slots details page and add more information, such as a location or description, or to make the appointment block repeat. To make the appointment block recur, click the Repeat checkbox to choose your settings. Read more about repeating events.
  7. If other people should be present during the appointment slot, you can invite them using the Add Guests field. For instance, a professor may want their assistant to be there during office hours and could invite them using this feature.
    Note: Anyone that you add here will be invited to every individual appointment throughout the block of time, and will also receive an email each time someone reserves an appointment. To show the event to people who might reserve an appointment slot, give them the appointment page's URL that's listed at the top of the event details page
  8. When you're finished, click Save.
You're all set up! Your appointment block will display as a single event on your calendar and the calendars of any invitees. You'll be able to distinguish the appointment block from other events by its striped pattern. Once actual appointments are booked, they'll appear as regular events overlapping with the striped appointment block.

Booking Appointments (visitors)

To let people start booking appointments, simply direct them to the appointment page.

** You can find the URL for your appointment page at the top of the set-up page, which you can access via the Edit details link.


Visitors to this page will see a calendar showing the available appointments. They’ll also see their own calendar overlaid on the appointment page, making it easy to see what times work for them.
To book an appointment, visitors simply click one of the available appointment buttons and click Save. Visitors can also edit other fields in the popup to make changes to the title, location, and event description.
Appointments that have been booked won’t be visible to future visitors to the appointment page.
Attendees can cancel their appointment by deleting or declining the event on their own calendar, which will appear as a decline on your calendar. The appointment then becomes bookable for future visitors to the appointment page.

Go to your Google Calendar and click on a day to create an event.In the pop-up window, select Appointment slots (see top right of window). Name your appointments and enter the length of time for each appointment. Click the Edit details to further customize the appointment slots. Appointment slots will give you the ability to let other people book an appointment directly on your Google calendar. From a timeframe that you specify. This is useful for booking a 30 minute or one hour, or even a 15 minute time slot.

Constantly booking appointments can be time consuming and it takes some coordinating to get your clients booked. You can cut time and allow your clients the ability to set up their own appointments by using Google appointment slots.

Create Appointment Slots In Google Calendar

Here’s some examples on how to use Google appointment slots:

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  • If you are holding meetings for potential clients, you can create a new appointment slot, send the link to your clients, and they can directly book a time themselves.
  • Say you run a Yoga studio you can create an appointment slot on your calendar for clients to reserve private Yoga sessions. Just email the appointment slot link to your clients and let them pick a time.
  • If you are a teacher and you want to make available time slots for you students to book with you for one-on-one tuition, just create your “Tuition Booking” appointment slot and let them reserve a time.

To learn how to get started sharing an Google appointment slots see below:

* You will need to have a Google Apps account to create Appointment Slots. You can create a Google Apps account for as low as $5/month here.

Setting Up Appointment Slots

1.Go to Google Calendar and click on the date you want to set for the appointment slots.

2.In the event box, click “Appointment slots”

3.Enter the details of the appointment

4.Once you are done hit “Create”

Invite Others to Book Appointments


Now you can begin to send out invites for users to book their appointments inside the newly created appointment slot.

1.Go to back Google Calendar and click the appointment slot event on the calendar, then click on “Edit Details”

2.Copy the calendar’s appointment page link found at the top of the event

Email this link to people looking to book an appointment.

And you’re done. After receiving the link, clients would need to click on a time slot to book it and once a time is booked, the time is filled in and un-bookable by others.

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You can now set up Google appointment slots on your calendar and have them filled out by those you invite with the appointment slot’s link.

This feature will make setting up appointments andscheduling meetings a breeze. Plus it only take a few minutes to set up.

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