Understanding Busy Time Blocking
How Google Calendar events affect your booking availability.
A booking link is only useful if the times it shows are actually available. If your calendar already has a court appearance, a CE class, or a kid pickup blocked off but AwardLettr cheerfully offers that slot anyway, the opposing appraiser is going to grab it and you are going to spend the next hour apologizing and trying to find a new time.
Busy time blocking solves that by treating your real Google Calendar as the source of truth. Every event marked busy, every all-day block, every personal appointment your spouse added to your shared calendar gets pulled into the availability check before AwardLettr shows a slot to anyone. The booker only ever sees times that are actually open in your life, not just times that are open in AwardLettr.
This is most valuable for solo appraisers who do not have an assistant gatekeeping their calendar, and for anyone whose personal life and inspections both live in the same Google account.
When connected, AwardLettr reads your Google Calendar to see when you're busy. These times are blocked from inspection booking.
How It Works
- AwardLettr checks your Google Calendar for events
- Events marked as "busy" block those time slots
- All-day events block the entire day
- Events on other calendars (if selected) also count
What Gets Blocked
| Event Type | Blocked? |
|---|---|
| Busy events | Yes |
| Free events | No |
| All-day events | Yes |
| Tentative events | No (by default) |
Personal Time