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Create a personal event on your Square Appointments calendar

Who is this article for?
  • Account owners or team members with appointments permission. Set permissions in Square Dashboard.
  • Square Appointments Free, Plus or Premium subscribers.
  • Sellers with bookings mode enabled in the Square Point of Sale app.
  • About personal events

    Personal events in Square Appointments are designed to give you flexibility to block off a period of time to show unavailability for a personal event or a recurring scheduled event. When your customers view your online booking page, they will only see available booking times and not your personal events.

    Before you start

    You can create a personal event from your Square Dashboard or the Square Appointments POS app.

    Option 1: Create a personal event from your Square Dashboard

    1. Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Appointments.

    2. Click Calendar.

    3. Click anywhere on your daily calendar or click and drag your cursor to select a block of time.

    4. Click Create and change the event type to Personal event.

    5. Add an event title (eg busy, meeting, available).

    6. To remove booking availability during this time block, tick the Block time box.

    7. Select the date and time or tick the All day box.

    8. To create a recurring personal event, click Set repetition > select the details > Save.

    9. Select the staff member you are creating a personal event for.

    10. Add any notes and click Save.

    Option 2: Create a personal event from your Square Appointments POS app

    From the Square Point of Sale app with bookings mode enabled or from the Square Appointments POS app:

    1. Open your Point of Sale app.

    2. Tap Calendar.

    3. Tap + and select Create Personal Event.

    4. Add an event title (eg busy, meeting, available).

    5. Select the date and time or toggle All-Day ON.

    6. To create a recurring personal event, tap Repeats > select the details > tap the back arrow.

    7. To remove booking availability during this time block, toggle Block Off Time as Busy ON.

    8. Select the staff member you are creating a personal event for.

    9. Add any notes and tap Save.

    If the event was originally created in a synced personal calendar, all edits and updates must be added in the original calendar.

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