Adding Your Availability in the Setup Wizard – TimeTap

If you need to add or edit the availability you offer for scheduling appointments with you, you can do this in multiple ways from your account. The methods described below get used when you're setting up your account for the first time.

Having your availability set up is crucial to being able to take appointments with TimeTap. Without having service availability set up, TimeTap won't know what timeslots to display to the clients who are trying to book appointments with you.

Your availability can be thought of like the "Open Hours" signs that hang on the doors to shops and restaurants across the country.

So, if your availability is set to last from 8 AM - 5 PM Monday through Friday, then TimeTap will look to fit any appointment that a client is trying to schedule with you into that timeframe. This means that if your appointment is set to last 1 hour, then the last possible appointment start time would be 4 PM because TimeTap assumes you want to be closed and getting ready to head home by 5 PM.

Now that we're familiar with what availability is, let's take a look at how to get your availability set up for the first time. When you log in to your account for the first time, you'll get prompted to go through the Setup Wizard.

First you'll get asked to select which location on the account that you want to offer availability at, and then you'll get presented with 3 options for when you're available for appointments - Pretty much the same times every week, Only during a certain date range or Sporadically (my schedule changes daily) -

Option 1

With the first option, you'll be setting up a weekly schedule when you're available to take appointments (like Monday - Friday from 9 AM - 5 PM). This is great for folks who have business hours that occur on a regular, predictable pattern without a set end date.

Once you select 'Pretty much at the same times every week', you'll get taken to a page where you will get prompted to set the days of the week that you will be available and your daily hours of availability -

Then you'll get asked to confirm the hours of availability on your weekly schedule -

Option 2

With the second option, you'll be setting up availability between a start date and an end date. For this example, let's say you are only. able to accept appointments between August 25, 2026 - September 27, 2027. You don't want your availability to extend indefinitely, so clients won't be able to make appointments past your set end date. You'll select your date range and then the days of the week during that date range that you're able to accept appointments.

Once you select 'Only during a certain date range', you'll get taken to a page where you'll get prompted to enter the date that you will start offering availability and the date that you will stop. Then directly below that you'll get prompted to enter the days of the week and the daily hours that you'll be available -

Then you will again get asked to confirm the hours of availability on your weekly schedule -

Option 3

With the third option, you'll get prompted to set your availability just for the first day that you will be available to take appointments. Since you offer availability sporadically, you'll need to set it up for your next available date at a later time.

Once you select Sporadically (my schedule changes daily), you'll get taken to a page where you will get prompted to input the next date that you'll be offering availability and set the hours -

Once you have finished going through the setup wizard and adding your availability - no matter what form that availability takes - you'll be ready to accept appointments on your mini website or on the scheduler you have embedded on your website.

You can learn more about adding, editing and customizing your availability from the documentation pages linked below -

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

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