Availability calendar

Your availability calendar is a month grid. Pick a period and a status, then click a day to set it. Click the same day again to clear it. Workplaces looking at your public profile can see this calendar before they send a booking request, so a well-kept calendar means fewer requests for days you cannot work.

You can set a whole day or split it into morning and afternoon:

• All day: applies one status to the entire day
• AM (morning): the morning only, up to 1pm
• PM (afternoon): the afternoon only, from 1pm

Morning and afternoon are independent, so you can be free for a morning clinic and unavailable for the school run in the afternoon. Half-day settings show as a pair of coloured dots on the day.

• Available (green): you are free and happy to take a booking
• Tentative (amber): you might be free, depending on the rate or where the work is
• Unavailable (red): you are not working, for example annual leave or a CPD day
• Booked (blue): a confirmed shift sits here. Sessional sets this for you and you cannot change it by hand

To set many days at once, for example a fortnight of leave or a week of availability, use Block book dates:

1. Choose a period (All day, AM, or PM) and a status (Available, Tentative, or Unavailable)
2. Click a start date, then an end date. The range highlights between them
3. Check the confirmation bar showing the dates and the day count
4. Click Apply to set the whole range, or Cancel to clear it

Block booking skips any day that is already booked, so it never overwrites a confirmed shift. A single range can cover up to 90 days. This is the quick way to mark out a holiday in Queensland over the school break, or open up a run of available days when you are looking for work.

When you accept a booking request or confirm a shift, the calendar updates on its own based on the times:

• A morning shift (finishing by 1pm) marks the morning as booked
• An afternoon shift (starting at 1pm or later) marks the afternoon as booked
• A full-day shift (spanning both) marks the whole day as booked

If a shift is cancelled, the booked slot is released straight back to available.

You decide whether your availability appears on your public profile. Toggle it from your profile settings under Visibility. With it on, a workplace can see which days and half days you are free before they send a request, which means the requests you get are better targeted.

On the Plus and Pro plans you can subscribe your phone or computer calendar to a live feed of your confirmed shifts. Sessional gives you a private iCal feed URL you paste into Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar. New shifts appear automatically, with the workplace name, times in Australian Eastern time, and your notes, so your working week shows up alongside the rest of your life. The feed URL is unique to you and can be regenerated if you ever want to revoke it.