Appointment Availability
Appointment availability is now available for all organisations using Self-Book! If you don't see this feature, then please update your toolbar.
When sending an individual Self-Book link, you will now be able to specify the timeframe of appointments that will be visible for patients. We either search your appointment book 6 or 12 weeks in advance and previously all available appointments in this timeframe would be shown to patients.
You can now reduce the availability shown to patients, if you would like them to book within a specific timeframe. You can set the appointment availability in weeks or days, meaning if you need a patient to book an urgent appointment, you can now send a Self-Book link which will only offer appointments on the same day.
Link expiry
If you choose to reduce the appointment availability to less than 7 days, the link expiry timeframe will also reduce to match.
For example, if you wanted the patient to only book an appointment in the next 2 days, the link will now expire after 48 hours.
Scheduling self book links
You also can pair reducing the appointment availability with scheduling a Self-Book link.
For example, you may want to schedule a self-book link to send in 1 months time and ask the patient to book an appointment within 2 weeks of receiving the Self-Book link.
