Using your calendar

the calendar in eggmed helps you manage appointments, availability, and scheduling preferences in one place it reflects your working hours, bookings, and connected calendars in real time accessing your calendar open settings from the left sidebar click calendar under the user section from here, you can configure how your calendar behaves and how appointments are displayed and shared calendar settings overview the calendar settings are organized into tabs general availability sharing booking configuration integrations each tab controls a specific part of your scheduling workflow general calendar preferences in the general tab, you can configure basic calendar behavior timezone sets the timezone used across your calendar and appointments calendar color choose how your calendar appears visually default reminder set how many minutes before an appointment reminders are sent you can set this to 0 to disable reminders click save changes to apply updates managing availability in the availability tab, you define when patients can book appointments working hours enable or disable availability for each day of the week set one or multiple time slots per day limit availability by service visit type you can quickly apply standard hours using set 9–5 weekdays date overrides use date overrides to handle exceptions such as holidays vacations special working hours overrides can be set for a single date a date range date overrides take priority over regular working hours booking configuration the booking configuration tab controls how patients can schedule sessions you can set minimum notice time how far in advance a session must be booked buffer time padding before or after sessions that cannot be booked start time increment the spacing between available start times, such as every 15 minutes these rules apply to all new bookings sharing your calendar in the sharing tab, you can give access to other team members you can share your calendar with providers, staff, or assistants assign read or write access edit or remove access at any time this is useful for coordination, scheduling support, and billing workflows calendar integrations in the integrations tab, you can connect external calendars google calendar sync connect your google calendar to sync appointments choose which calendars to sync control how appointments appear in google calendar enable or disable syncing of non clinical events set sync direction eggmed → google google → eggmed both ways all connections use secure oauth and can be disconnected at any time how availability affects bookings patients can only book during your available hours date overrides override weekly availability changes apply immediately to new bookings existing appointments are not affected your calendar is now fully configured and ready to support scheduling, availability, and integrations across eggmed