Availability & schedules

Your availability decides which time slots people can actually book. This page covers how to set your weekly working hours, block off specific dates, and control how time zones are handled.

Personal vs event availability

In Preb, your working hours live in a schedule — a named set of weekly hours, like "Working Hours." A schedule is personal to you and follows you everywhere: across every workspace and team you belong to. Each teammate manages their own.

There are two layers worth keeping straight:

• Your schedules — managed under Availability in the sidebar. This is where you set when you're generally free.
• Which schedule an event uses — for a solo event, the Event Details screen has a Schedule dropdown so you can pin a specific schedule or fall back to your default. For team events, each host automatically uses their own default schedule — there's no shared team schedule.

Creating a schedule

When you first set up Preb, you automatically get a schedule called Working Hours, set to Monday–Friday, 9:00 to 5:00, marked as your default. You can edit it or add more.

You can't delete a schedule that an event type is using — remove it from those events first.

Weekly hours

Inside a schedule, the Weekly hours section has one row per day of the week. For each day:

• Use the toggle to mark the day available or Unavailable.
• Set one or more time blocks (start and end times, in 15-minute steps). Add a second block to a day to model a lunch break — for example 9:00–12:00 and 1:00–5:00.
• Click the + to add another time range, or the copy icon to copy that day's hours onto other days with Copy times to….

A bar appears at the bottom when you have unsaved changes — click Save schedule to keep them or Discard to drop them. Preb won't let you save overlapping time blocks or an enabled day with no hours.

Date overrides

Weekly hours repeat every week. When a specific date is different — a holiday, a half-day, an all-day workshop — add a date override in the Date overrides section.

An override completely replaces your normal weekly hours for that one date. If it's marked unavailable, the whole day is blocked; otherwise only the custom hours you set apply.

Minimum notice & booking window

These two settings aren't part of the schedule itself — they live per event type, on the Limits & Buffers screen — but they directly shape which slots appear:

• Minimum notice — how far in advance someone must book (e.g. at least 4 hours, or 1 day). Slots sooner than that disappear, so nobody can grab a meeting five minutes from now.
• Booking window — how far into the future people can book (e.g. up to 14 calendar days), or Show all future availability for no cap.

Full details are in Buffers, limits & window.

Time zones

Each schedule stores its own time zone — that's the zone your working hours are written in.

On your public booking page, the visitor's time zone is detected automatically from their browser, and every time is shown in their local time. Your underlying hours never change — only the displayed clock times shift to match whoever is looking. A visitor can also switch zones manually using the globe icon on the booking page.