Boards are where you customize your Appointment schedule. Here's an explanation of each major setting.

This determines:

Private (not public) boards allow you to hide the schedule from customers and do all of the scheduling yourself. You can change a board's public setting any time.

Your board settings will, by default, mirror your 'general appointment settings'.

Below, to illustrate how each setting affects your schedule, I've opened a separate tab with a customer facing schedule page.

You can do this by clicking Appointments > Schedule > Checkout (using command + click or control + click).

Note: settings must be saved from your 'edit board' page before they will show in the adjacent schedule.

This controls how often appointments can start (e.g., every 15, 30, or 60 minutes). How granular do you want your available start times to show to your customers?

Only allow customers to book appointments at specific times within the hour. For example, this host has appointments only available to start every quarter past the hour. You can choose more than one of these options.

Buffer times allow you to add time on the beginning or end of appointments for things like prep or cleanup.

Buffer times can be viewed from your staff facing schedule by clicking 'options' in top right.

Note that:

Allow overlap allows you to control if other appointments can be booked over the beginning or end of existing appointments. This can also be controlled at the individual service level.

This setting allows you to give customers the option to book more than one service in a single checkout.

It comes with some restrictions (like requiring random staff selection) which you can learn more about here.

Choose whether to display available times in a weekly or daily format for customers.

Here's week view.

And day view.

How far out would you like your customers to be able to book? This only affects when they are doing the booking. You can override this when you are booking for them. For infinite days shown in advance, put 0.

The order for customers to choose staff, venue, and time. If your customers tend to prefer individual staff members, lead with staff.

Enable random staff selection to distribute bookings evenly. Options are "no," "yes (optional)," or "yes (required)."

This also distributes bookings evenly, but across venues.

This is basically a courtesy setting for your staff. If you opt for the 60 minute default shown above, then this means your staff will have at least 60 minutes to make into the studio before the appointment starts.

Note that teachers receivelick Studio Setup > Transactional Templates > SMS > sent to teachers > search for Appointment reservation.

Decide if multiple staff can be booked at the same time in the same venue.

(ie. if you have a venue assigned to this board called room 1 and its too small for more than one appointment to be booked at once, you probably don't want overlapping appointments enabled.

If you have a large room where many appointments can be taking place at once, then overlapping appointments by venue is probably just fine).