⏱️ Smarter Slot Availability for Overlapping Appointments

🧭 Overview

We’ve improved how slot availability is calculated for calendars that allow

multiple appointments per slot

Previously

, when a single

appointment overlapped

multiple time slots, the system would

block all affected slots entirely

— even if those slots still had remaining capacity.

Now

, overlapping appointments only

reduce the availability by 1

in each slot they span. Slots are blocked only when their true capacity limit is reached — not just because they were partially overlapped. This logic now powers both the internal appointment modal and the public booking widget, providing more accurate and flexible scheduling.

🚀 What’s New?

✅ Overlapping Appointments Now Reduce, Not Block, Slot Capacity

The system checks all slots that an appointment overlaps and reduces their availability by 1 — rather than fully blocking them. The slot remains available for others until the per-slot appointment limit is actually hit.

✅ Examples:

🗓 Manual Booking via In-App Appointment Modal

Setup
: 15-minute slots, 5 appointments allowed per slot
Custom Appointment
: 10:15 to 10:45 AM (spans 10:00–10:30 AM and 10:30–11:00 AM slots)
Old behavior
: Both slots were fully blocked
New behavior
: Only 1 count is subtracted from each slot, allowing 4 more appointments in both

🌐 Booking Widget (with 5-minute intervals)

Setup
: 15-min duration, 5-min slot intervals, 5 appointments per slot
Appointment
: Customer selects 10:00–10:15 AM
Result
: System subtracts only 1 appointment count from all overlapping slots capacity (e.g., 10:05–10:20 AM, 10:10–10:25 AM), leaving slots available until capacity is reached

✅ Applies Across Calendar Types

Personal Calendars
Round Robin Calendars
Event Calendars

✅ Consistent Logic Across Internal & External Booking

No matter where the booking happens — the system uses the same calculation for :

✅
Public booking widget appointments
✅
Custom time appointments
made via the
in-app
appointment modal

🎯 Why This Matters

🧠
Accurate availability representation
— no more blocking slots prematurely
📅
Better availability utilization
— especially helpful for high-traffic calendars
🤝
Consistent behavior across booking channels
(admin + widget)