Set up your shop calendar

The shop calendar holds your durable trading rules: when you are open, what breaks you take, and which days are closed. These rules feed the available hours shown in the Booking Diary and the daily capacity behind Bay View.

You manage it from Workshop Settings under Calendar, between Team & access and Service catalogue. Edits save as you work, so there is no separate Save step.

Schedule options and the weekly pattern

Your calendar is built from reusable schedule options assigned to weekdays.

1. Review the schedule options. The defaults are Full day, Half day, and Closed.
2. Edit an option's label, open time, and close time directly in its row.
3. Assign each weekday to an option in the weekly table. The common default is Full day Monday to Friday, Half day Saturday, and Closed Sunday.
4. Need a one-off weekday pattern? Choose Custom on that weekday row to create a named option you can edit inline and reuse.

A custom option can only be deleted while no weekday is assigned to it, so deleting one can never quietly change your standing week.

Breaks and available hours

Each open option can deduct breaks. Full day seeds a 15 minute smoko and a 30 minute lunch. Edit breaks in the row's break builder; a visible break row is active, so remove the row to stop deducting it.

Available hours are derived for you. The calendar shows the open window minus active breaks. You do not type the number twice.

Public holidays

Add a calendar subscription for your state or territory to import public holidays as closures. Openhood filters the feed to national holidays plus your selected state and skips observances and other states' regional dates.

Imported holidays appear as closure entries you can delete if your shop trades that day. Refreshing the subscription restores deleted imports that still exist in the source.

Closures and one-off dates

Dated exceptions live in a closure entries ledger covering the next 24 months. Add a closure and choose its shape first:

• Full day closes a single date.
• Partial day closes a window and scales that day's capacity by the remaining open time.
• Multi-day closes a date range.

For a single date you do not want to close, you can still adjust availability from the Booking Diary's day settings. From there you can open a normally closed day as a one-off, cap the bookable hours, or create a closure. Those writes route back through the shop calendar so capacity stays consistent everywhere.