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Set a time budget for an event type so a single kind of meeting can’t consume your entire week. The Limit total booking duration feature caps how many total hours can be booked per day, week, or month — and stops showing availability once you hit the cap.

Limiting total booking duration

This feature lives in the Limits tab and lets you set a “time budget” for your bookings.

Why use this feature?

How to set it up

1

Log in to Cal ID

Log in to your Cal ID account.
2

Select your event

Go to Event Types and open the event you want to change.
3

Navigate to Limits

Click on the Limits tab in the top navigation bar.
4

Find the setting

Locate the section titled Limit total booking duration.
5

Enable and configure

  • Toggle the switch to ON.
  • Enter the maximum number of minutes or hours you are willing to be booked for this event type.
  • Select the timeframe — per day, week, or month.
6

Save

Click the blue Save button at the top right.
Limits tab with Limit total booking duration toggled on, a number of hours entered and the timeframe dropdown set to per day

Setting a time budget for the event

Timeframe options

How it works

  • Cumulative tracking: Cal ID keeps a running total of all confirmed bookings for this specific event type within your chosen timeframe.
  • Automatic blackout: Once the total duration of scheduled meetings reaches your limit, the system automatically stops showing availability for that event type until the next timeframe begins.
  • Independent limits: This limit applies only to the event type you are editing; it does not affect your other booking links.
If you have a 60-minute event and set a limit of 3 hours per day, the system allows exactly 3 bookings for that day. If a booker tries to take a 4th slot, they will see that you are “unavailable” — even if your calendar is technically empty.

Other booking volume limits

Limit booking frequency

Cap the number of bookings, rather than total hours, per day, week, or month.

Booker active booking limit

Stop a single booker from holding too many active bookings at once.