Can the Availability calendar show currently scheduled sessions?
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Hello! Is there a way for my schedule to show up on the Availability calendar screen simultaneously so I can set small chunks of availability without having to toggle between the two screens? My schedule changes frequently, so I can only use the availability feature if I update it almost daily. I find myself not doing this because it's frustrating to toggle back and forth between settings so I can see my schedule. However, my clients love the self-schedule feature so I try to use it for them. Am I missing something or could an update possibly address this? Thank you!!
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Hi Kristin,
I understand that you're wondering whether you're able to see your current appointments and the Availability time blocks simultaneously. In this case, yes, you can see both pieces of information on your Calendar homepage.
If you navigate to your Calendar homepage, then you'll notice that the background will be grey and white, depending on whether you have an Availability blocks scheduled during these times. The white background means that you have an Availability block scheduled, while the greyed out background means that there isn't an Availability block in the Calendar.
However, there's currently no way to schedule client appointments while on the Availability calendar or schedule Availability blocks while on the Calendar homepage. I can definitely see how this would be helpful, and I encourage you to add this feature suggestion to our Ideas and Suggestions board.
Posting on our Ideas and Suggestions board means that members of our Product Team, as well as all members of our Community, have transparent access to review and vote on your suggestion. This board is one of our most important resources for understanding which features will have the most value for our community.
If you're curious, here's more information about how a customer idea can become a SimplePractice feature: Customer feedback: How a customer idea can become a feature in SimplePractice.
If you have any additional questions regarding this, please reach out and let me know.
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Using a weekly view does not work for me because I would then be going back and forth from weekly view to monthly view. I only use the monthly view. I just wish availability could show on the monthly view as appointment slots. I was scheduling spaces as "open" instead of someone's name, but that made it so a client could not schedule that time slot and it got added to my personal calendar. If I could create hourly appointment slots (sort of like the client view) in one color and the filled appointments in another color on a monthly view, that would be great! AND then only have the appointments transfer to my personal calendar that would be great, I ONLY LIKE TO USE MONTH VIEW AND I CANNOT SEE IF I HAVE AVAILABILITY AT A SPECIFIC TIME UNLESS I TOGGLE BACK AND FORTH OR I CREATE AN APPOINTMENT UNDER OTHER AND THE WRITE IN "OPEN". BUT THEN CLIENTS CANNOT SCHEDULE AT THAT TIME BECAUSE MY "OPEN" SHOWS TO THEM AS UNAVAILABLE.
For example:
Appointments in office: Blue
Appointments telehelath: Purple
Breaks or calls to make: Red
OPEN SLOTS for appointments: Green
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Please please please make the contrast between the available and non-available times darker!!! We have a hard time trying to see what is actually open and what is not open with our variable schedules, especially when there is stuff scheduled around an open spot. It's also hard to toggle between the availability button and the appointments, but that would be less of a big deal if the white and slightly off-white were white and grey, or even another color! This seems to be the biggest complaint our staff has. Otherwise we have been really happy with SimplePractice!
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I second this request: Please please please make the contrast between the available and non-available times darker!!! We have a hard time trying to see what is actually open and what is not open with our variable schedules, especially when there is stuff scheduled around an open spot. It's also hard to toggle between the availability button and the appointments, but that would be less of a big deal if the white and slightly off-white were white and grey, or even another color! This seems to be the biggest complaint our staff has. Otherwise we have been really happy with SimplePractice!
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I too am looking for this feature... Please please please make the contrast between the available and non-available times darker!!! We have a hard time trying to see what is actually open and what is not open with our variable schedules, especially when there is stuff scheduled around an open spot. It's also hard to toggle between the availability button and the appointments, but that would be less of a big deal if the white and slightly off-white were white and grey, or even another color!
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Thanks for the feedback! Please comment and vote on this feature request so our Product Team can further consider adding it to our platform in the future: https://simplepractice.uservoice.com/forums/918553-simplepractice-feedback/suggestions/37225801-please-change-the-color-for-background-darker-on-t
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