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# User-Level Booking Limits
> Cap how many confirmed meetings you accept per day, week, or month across every event type in your account, so your calendar never fills past your capacity.
**User-level booking limits** cap the number of confirmed bookings you accept across **all** of your event types. Instead of configuring a separate cap on every event type, you set one account-wide ceiling — for example, no more than 4 meetings a day or 30 a month — and Cal ID hides slots automatically once you hit it. This protects time for focused work without you having to manually block your calendar.
User-level limits apply to you as the host, across every event type you own. They live in **Settings → General → Booking Limits**, not inside an individual event type.
## Available limit periods
You can set a limit for one period or combine several.
| Period | What it controls |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| **Per day** | Total confirmed bookings on a single calendar day |
| **Per week** | Total confirmed bookings within a calendar week |
| **Per month** | Total confirmed bookings within a calendar month |
A combination such as 4 per day + 15 per week + 50 per month means you can take at most 4 bookings on any one day, while still being held to 15 for the week and 50 for the month.
## Set up a booking limit
Go to **Settings → General** at [https://cal.id/settings/my-account/general](https://cal.id/settings/my-account/general).
Scroll to **Booking Limits** on the General settings page.
Enable the **Booking Limits** toggle. Cal ID starts enforcing account-level limits as soon as they are saved.
Click **Add Limit**, enter the maximum number of bookings, and choose the period — for example, `2` **Per day**.
Repeat to stack periods, such as `2` **Per day**, `10` **Per week**, and `30` **Per month**. Each limit is enforced alongside the others.
Click the delete icon next to any limit you no longer need. The remaining limits stay in force.
Click **Update** to save. The new limits apply the next time Cal ID calculates your availability.
## How limits are enforced
Before Cal ID offers a slot on your booking page, it counts your existing **confirmed bookings** for the relevant period.
* **Under the limit** — the slot stays visible and a booker can take it.
* **At the limit** — the slot is removed from your booking page for the rest of that period.
Say your daily limit is 2 and you already have a 10:00 AM client meeting and a 2:00 PM consultation on Monday. Monday shows no further slots, but Tuesday stays open as long as your weekly limit still has room.
Limits count **bookings**, not minutes. A 15-minute meeting and a 60-minute meeting each count as one booking. To cap time instead of headcount, use [Limit total booking duration](/docs/event-types/limits/total-duration) on an event type.
### Limits stack
When you configure more than one period, all of them are enforced at once. With 4 per day and 15 per week:
| Day | Bookings |
| --------- | -------- |
| Monday | 4 |
| Tuesday | 4 |
| Wednesday | 4 |
| Thursday | 3 |
| Friday | 0 |
The weekly total is already 15, so Friday shows no availability even though your calendar is free.
Keep longer periods greater than or equal to shorter ones. A configuration of 5 per day with 3 per week is contradictory — a single day could exceed the weekly cap. A valid ladder looks like 4 per day, 20 per week, 80 per month.
## User-level vs event-type limits
Cal ID gives you two levels of booking-frequency control.
| | User-level booking limits | Event-type booking limits |
| -------------------------- | -------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| Scope | All event types combined | One event type |
| Configured in | **Settings → General** | Event type → **Limits** |
| Controls | Total bookings you receive | Bookings for that specific event |
| Best for | Overall meeting capacity | Limiting one meeting type |
| Applies across event types | Yes | No |
To cap a single event type instead, see [Limit booking frequency](/docs/event-types/limits/booking-frequency).
### When both are set
Both restrictions are enforced, and the tighter one wins.
* **User-level 5/day, Product Demo 10/day** — you receive at most 5 bookings a day in total, even though the event type would allow 10.
* **User-level 10/day, Product Demo 3/day** — you receive at most 3 Product Demo bookings, and at most 10 bookings across all event types.
## Team events
If you belong to a team and your user-level limit is already reached, no new booking is scheduled with you as the host — including team event bookings. Cal ID treats you as unavailable until capacity frees up in the affected period.
Pair a booking limit with [Out of office](/docs/availability/out-of-office) and [buffers](/docs/event-types/limits/buffers) to shape both how many meetings you take and how much recovery time sits around them.
## Related limit settings
Cap bookings for one specific event type instead of your whole account.
Cap the total minutes an event type can consume in a day.
Set your language, timezone, and travel schedule on the same page.
Block dates entirely and optionally forward bookings to a colleague.
## Related topics
- [Configure Language, Timezone, and Travel Schedule in Cal ID](/docs/settings/general.md)
- [Limit Booking Frequency](/docs/event-types/limits/booking-frequency.md)
- [Limit Total Booking Duration](/docs/event-types/limits/total-duration.md)
- [Booker Active Booking Limit](/docs/event-types/limits/booker-limit.md)
- [Set Out of Office in Cal ID](/docs/availability/out-of-office.md)