Wix Bookings: About the Booking Calendar
5 min
In this article
- Customize the calendar view
- Customize the calendar display
- Create filters and use color
- Your booking calendar management tools
- Manage your complete schedule
- Update your clients' attendance and payments
- Manage your clients' information
The booking calendar is the place to schedule your appointments, classes and courses. You can keep track of your bookings, make scheduling changes, manage clients, and much more.
Customize the calendar view
You can change how you view your booking calendar to suit your needs. Check the schedule for an entire week or a specific date, including all free time slots. You can also see the complete list of sessions for a single day or view upcoming bookings for each staff member.
Choose from the following views:
- Weekly: View your entire calendar for the selected week, including all sessions and free time slots.
- Daily: View the schedule for the selected date, including all free time slots.
- Staff: Check the upcoming sessions for the selected date, with sessions sorted into columns based on the staff member in charge.
- Schedule: View a list of sessions on the selected date, including the time, type, number of participants, staff member in charge and the location.
Customize the calendar display
Click the Display Settings icon 
at the top of the calendar and use the available options to adjust how you display your booking calendar. Choose how much spacing you want between sessions on your calendar, display appointments by client or service name, and color code your events by service or staff member.
at the top of the calendar and use the available options to adjust how you display your booking calendar. Choose how much spacing you want between sessions on your calendar, display appointments by client or service name, and color code your events by service or staff member. 
You can also decide whether to show weekends in your calendar view and adjust the calendar’s time zone to match your site settings. These options help streamline your daily session management and make it easier to organize your schedule.
Create filters and use color
Filter and use colors on your calendar to find what you need faster. You can filter your calendar by service, staff member, location, session availability, and more. This makes it easy to quickly view availability, manage schedule changes, and focus on the sessions you need.
In your display settings, you can color code sessions by staff member or service type. To set a color, click the Filter icon 
, then hover over the name and click the More Actions icon
next to the staff or service name to select a color. The colors help you scan your calendar at a glance and identify who or what each session refers to.
, then hover over the name and click the More Actions icon next to the staff or service name to select a color. The colors help you scan your calendar at a glance and identify who or what each session refers to. 
Tip:
You can change your color palette from your display settings. Choose between a modern or classic palette.
To change your color palette:
- Click the Display Settings icon at the top of the calendar.
- Scroll down to Color palette and choose Modern or Classic.
Your booking calendar management tools
Click Manage at the top of your booking calendar to access key tools for running your business. From here, you can update your services, manage your team’s schedules, sync your personal calendar, and adjust your bookings settings, all in one convenient place. These options help keep your bookings and staff organized.
Learn more about:
Manage your complete schedule
Use your calendar to add new appointments, class sessions, and course sessions. You can also block off time you don't want clients to be able to book online or create a new service. Create sessions with custom time slots, and adjust them easily with drag and drop.
Learn more about:
Update your clients' attendance and payments
Manage the attendance and payment status for all clients that have made bookings. Select the relevant appointment, class or course in your calendar to view its participants list.
Learn more about marking attendance for sessions.
Tip:
Marking attendance is useful for keeping track of payments and seeing which of your services are most popular. You can check your site's statistics in the Reports tab.
Manage your clients' information
From the sessions or appointments in your calendar, you can access all your clients' contact cards to edit their details, book sessions for them, send messages and more.
Through a client's contact card, you can chat directly with them and book sessions or offer coupons. You can also add notes for yourself about your client and their progress, set up tasks, add an attachment (such as a medical permission form) and much more.
Learn more about editing your contacts.
