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Show bookers only a percentage of your real open slots. The Look Busy feature hides part of your availability to create a sense of urgency and manage your meeting load, without changing your actual schedule.

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Steps to enable and configure “Look Busy”

1

Go to Event Types

From your main dashboard, click the Event Types tab in the left-hand sidebar.
2

Select and edit

Find the event type you want to modify, click the three dots, and choose Edit.
3

Navigate to the Advanced tab

In the top navigation menu of the event editor, click on the Advanced tab.
4

Toggle Look Busy

Scroll down to locate Look Busy and switch the toggle to the ON position.
Look Busy toggle
5

Configure availability limits

Set how much availability bookers can see:
  • Percentage of slots: Use the dropdown to select the percentage of your total available slots to make visible (e.g., set to 50% to hide half of your available times).
Percentage of slots dropdown
  • Time horizon: Define how far into the future bookers can see availability by entering a number in the Days field and selecting calendar days or business days from the dropdown.
Time horizon days field
6

Save your changes

Click the Save button in the top right corner to apply these limits to your public booking page.
Look Busy only affects what bookers see — your real availability is untouched, so you can still manually block or open time whenever you need to.

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Use case

If you’re available all day Monday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (8 hours total) but set Look Busy to 50%, Cal ID shows only 4 hours worth of slots to your bookers, making your calendar look more in-demand while reserving the rest of the time for yourself.

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