# Availability & Google Calendar

> Set your working hours so the right slots open up, and sync with Google Calendar.

Nimo never lets anyone type in a free-text time. Instead, every booking is picked
from your real open slots — which keeps appointments inside your hours and free
of clashes. To make that work, Nimo needs to know when you're available.

## Setting your availability

Your availability is a set of rules: the days you work, your start and end times,
breaks, and how long each slot is. The slot length also sets the appointment
length — pick a 15-minute slot and the appointment is 15 minutes.

From these rules, plus your existing appointments, Nimo generates the open slots
that staff and patients can book into.

## Connecting Google Calendar

Connect your personal Google Calendar from **Settings → Calendar** to keep the two
in step, per doctor.

**Nimo → Google.** When an appointment is created, confirmed, rescheduled, or
cancelled, the matching event appears or updates on your Google Calendar
automatically.

**Google → Nimo.** When Nimo works out which slots to offer, it checks your Google
Calendar for busy blocks and hides any slot that clashes with a personal event.
So a 10–11 AM block on your own calendar simply won't be offered to patients.

## Good to know

- **Connect once.** After the initial sign-in, Nimo keeps the connection alive on
  its own — you won't be asked again.
- **Your personal events stay private and untouched.** Nimo only reads them as
  busy time; it never edits or shows their contents.
- **Best-effort sync.** If Google is ever unreachable, your appointments still
  work normally — booking never waits on Google.
- **Disconnecting** stops future syncing. Events already created on Google stay
  where they are.

If you have no availability rules set, the slot picker will show an empty state —
that's the usual reason "there are no slots". Add your hours and they appear.