Auto-blocking calendar slots on holidays or breaks

Purpose

1.1 Automate the prevention of appointment bookings during pre-defined holidays and breaks, ensuring career guidance services never schedule sessions when staff are unavailable.
1.2 Automatedly sync holiday calendars with booking systems to avoid staff and client inconvenience.
1.3 Automatically update availability across all platforms using automation to drive efficiency and consistency in career counseling appointment management.
1.4 Automation reduces scheduling errors and eliminates manual calendar coordination during non-working periods.

Trigger Conditions

2.1 Automation initiates on calendar holiday event creation, update, or deletion.
2.2 Automated trigger also on manual holiday input in HR or leave management software.
2.3 Automatedly triggers daily or hourly checks to sync new holidays or breaks with booking systems.
2.4 Automation starts on public holiday calendar refresh/update via connected APIs.

Platform Variants

3.1 Google Calendar
• Feature/Setting: Use Calendar API, automate event creation as "Out of Office" with recurrence for holidays; sample set up — configure automation to pull events from a "Holidays" calendar, then block time in main calendar automatically.
3.2 Microsoft Outlook
• Feature/Setting: Microsoft Graph API; set automator to find and block holidays by sending POST requests to /me/events, marking relevant dates as busy.
3.3 Calendly
• Feature/Setting: Use Calendly API or native holiday blocking; automate with webhooks to mark unavailable slots based on connected calendar holidays.
3.4 Acuity Scheduling
• Feature/Setting: Automated blackout dates and hours; configure through admin, or automate blackout via API endpoint POST /availability/blackout_dates.
3.5 Zoho Bookings
• Feature/Setting: Zoho Calendar sync; automate holiday blocking by pushing "leave" entries via Zoho’s REST API.
3.6 Apple Calendar (iCloud)
• Feature/Setting: CalDAV API; automate holiday entry using calendar event POST for "non-availability".
3.7 HubSpot Meetings
• Feature/Setting: Meetings API; automate blackout via POST to /calendar/v3/event/mark-holiday for scheduled breaks.
3.8 Salesforce Calendar
• Feature/Setting: Salesforce API, automate out-of-office events with automated POST to /services/data/vXX.X/sobjects/Event/.
3.9 Setmore
• Feature/Setting: Setmore API, automate “blocked time” via POST /v2/appointments/block.
3.10 Doodle
• Feature/Setting: Doodle API; automate creation of unavailable slots using PATCH to /polls/{pollId}/options for group bookings.
3.11 SimplyBook.me
• Feature/Setting: Use Admin API; automate block-out period via createHolidayTime.
3.12 TimeTap
• Feature/Setting: Use API endpoint POST /companyHolidays to automate input of break periods.
3.13 Bookafy
• Feature/Setting: Bookafy REST API; automate POST /api/holidays to block dates.
3.14 Square Appointments
• Feature/Setting: Use Booking API to automate creation of block events by POST /v2/bookings/block.
3.15 Appointlet
• Feature/Setting: Google/Outlook sync; automate holiday input by pushing calendar events via API.
3.16 10to8
• Feature/Setting: 10to8 API; automate “unavailability” via POST /v2/unavailability.
3.17 SuperSaaS
• Feature/Setting: SuperSaaS API; automate unavailability via POST to /unavailable.
3.18 When2meet
• Feature/Setting: Sheet sync; automate input of holidays by managing available times via the provided CSV upload.
3.19 Genbook
• Feature/Setting: iCal sync; automate by pushing blocked events to iCal feed.
3.20 Office 365 Bookings
• Feature/Setting: Microsoft Graph API; automate block creation in staff calendars using automated event insertion with "Busy" status.

Benefits

4.1 Automate error-free scheduling, reducing double bookings on holidays.
4.2 Automation saves admin staff time by removing manual blocking of breaks.
4.3 Automated workflow keeps all platforms synchronized with real-time holiday updates.
4.4 Automating this process enhances user experience, boosts trust in reliable career guidance scheduling.