Availability
Set your weekly schedule so customers can book directly: a range for each day, or Closed. A service can also have hours of its own.
Calendar
One calendar for every booking
Home in Surrounders is a calendar of every booking, group date and appointment you add yourself, in an Agenda, Week or Month view.
Your working hours and time off decide which times customers can book, and the iPhone app can put your bookings into your phone's calendar.
Agenda, Week or Month
What does the calendar show?
Home is your calendar, for customers and professionals alike: every booking, every group date and every appointment you add yourself, side by side. Agenda shows what is coming next; Week and Month show the wider view.
Your working hours
What decides when customers can book?
Your working hours and your time off. Customers see only the free times inside them, at least 2 hours ahead for a one-to-one booking.
Time off
I'm away: tell everyone at once instead of cancelling one by one. Nobody can book you while you are away.
Appointments booked elsewhere
Can you add appointments booked by phone?
Yes. The + on your calendar opens Add custom appointment: an Appointment with a client or Nobody (walk-in), or Block time for an hour such as lunch. It can repeat every week.
Its time is taken for online booking too, so nobody books over it, and it shows under Custom in Bookings.
Your phone's calendar
Can your bookings go into your phone's calendar?
In the iPhone app, yes: Device calendar, in Settings, puts your bookings into a calendar on your phone, and a professional can also turn on Block my availability with my calendar. On the website, Add to calendar on a booking saves that one booking.
Read next
- Online booking that works while you workCustomers book your free times online. Accept requests or confirm at once, run weekly or monthly series, and agree every change of time.
- Reminders that go out by themselvesReminders before every booking, to the customer and to you. Pick the times, keep quiet hours at night, choose push, email or in-app for each kind.
- Surrounders on your phone and your computerThe free Surrounders app for iPhone and Android, Surrounders inside Telegram, and the website on any computer or as a web app on any phone.