# Using the booking calendar

> See every confirmed photography booking month by month in CoreHue, alongside your Google Calendar events and the hours you're open for booking.

Source: https://help.corehue.co/docs/managing-bookings/using-the-calendar/

**Bookings → Calendar** shows confirmed and completed bookings by month. Open a day to review its bookings or add a new one. Pending bookings don't appear here, even when they reserve time.

## Getting around

1. Click the month name at the top to jump to any month and year.
2. Use the arrows beside it to step one month at a time.
3. Click **Today** to come back to the current month.

On a phone, swipe left and right to change month.

## What appears on the calendar

- **Confirmed bookings**, with your client's name. Completed bookings stay too, since they did happen. In the **Shared availability** view, bookings for a service on its own schedule only show if that service blocks shared availability (more below).
- **Your Google Calendar events**, if you've [connected Google Calendar](/docs/online-booking/google-calendar), so you see your whole day and not just your CoreHue work.
- **Your availability** in the background. Days you don't work and dates you've blocked out look different from days you're open.

## Looking at a single day

Click any day to open its agenda. It lists the **Bookings** and **Google Calendar** events for that date, and any availability changes you've made for it. A day with nothing on it says **Nothing scheduled**.

The bottom of the agenda shows your bookable hours for that day, then an **Add booking** button that starts a new booking with the date already filled in.

Click a booking in the agenda or on the grid to see a quick summary, then **Open booking** for the full page.

## What doesn't appear

| Not on the calendar | Where to find it |
| --- | --- |
| **Inquiries** | **Bookings → Inquiries**. An inquiry doesn't hold time. See [Managing inquiries](/docs/managing-bookings/managing-inquiries) |
| **Pending bookings** | **All bookings** on the **Pending** filter. A booking reaches the calendar once it's confirmed. See [Why is a booking pending?](/docs/managing-bookings/why-a-booking-is-pending) |
| **Cancelled and expired bookings** | **All bookings**, on the **Cancelled** or **Expired** filter |

## Switching between schedules

If any of your services runs on its own schedule, a selector appears at the top right. It opens on **Shared availability**, and each of those services has its own entry. A service that isn't published shows **(Inactive)** after its name.

Pick a service to see the calendar through that service's hours. Bookings for a service with its own schedule only show in the **Shared availability** view when that service has **Block shared availability** on. Otherwise you'll find them in that service's own view. See [Giving a service its own schedule](/docs/online-booking/custom-availability-for-a-service).

## The calendar isn't how you block time

This trips people up. The calendar shows what's booked. Your availability decides when clients can book. Adding a booking isn't the way to take a day off.

To make yourself unavailable, add the date under your availability settings (see [Setting your availability](/docs/online-booking/setting-your-availability)), or put the event in Google Calendar with **Block busy times** turned on.

> **A quicker look at your week**
Your Home screen shows this week's bookings day by day, plus anything that needs your attention. See [Your home screen](/docs/getting-started/your-home-screen).

## Frequently asked questions

### Why isn't a new booking on my calendar?

A new booking that isn't on your calendar is probably still pending, waiting on payment, a signature or your confirmation. The calendar only shows confirmed and completed bookings. Open it from **All bookings** to see what it needs.

### Can my clients see my calendar?

No. The calendar is only for you. Clients see open times on your booking page, worked out from your availability and existing bookings.

### Do my Google Calendar events block bookings?

Only if you turn on **Block busy times** for the connected calendar. Without it, Google events show on your CoreHue calendar for reference but don't stop anyone booking.

### Can I drag a booking to a new date on the calendar?

No. Open the booking and use **Reschedule booking** instead. See [Rescheduling a booking](/docs/managing-bookings/rescheduling-a-booking).