Configurable slot step — a time grid at your own rhythm
From 5 to 120 minutes: you decide the grid your appointments sit on.
The problem
Too wide a grid loses you hours. If everything starts on the hour, a 40-minute service consumes 60: twenty minutes lost at every appointment, close to an hour and a half across a five-session day.
Too fine a grid does the opposite. Starts every five minutes produce an endless list of almost identical slots, and a calendar in pieces where nothing lines up any more. The client hesitates longer, and you are left with unusable ten-minute gaps.
The right step depends on your trade. A practitioner working in hour-long sessions wants a grid on the hour or the half hour. A salon running short services back to back wants the quarter hour. This is not a technical setting: it is the rhythm of your day.
How it works in Kagenda
The step is a setting of the business. It fixes the possible start times, independently of how long services last.
- You choose the gridFrom 5 to 120 minutes. A 30-minute step means appointments can start at 9.00, 9.30, 10.00 — never at 9.12.
- Durations stay freeThe step does not constrain how long services last. A 75-minute session on a 30-minute grid starts at 9.00 and frees the next slot at 10.15, which becomes 10.30 for the next client.
- The engine cuts accordinglyThe time left after holidays, breaks and existing bookings is cut at this step, then offered to the client.
Who it helps
Frequently asked questions
Can the step differ from one service to another?
The step is set at business level. To cut a particular service differently, the lever is rather its own hours, which restrict the windows in which it can be booked.
What step should I use for hour-long sessions?
Thirty or sixty minutes. Sixty gives a perfectly aligned calendar; thirty lets a client book at 9.30 when your day starts at 9, which fills incomplete days better.
Does changing the step move my existing appointments?
No. Appointments already taken keep their time. The new step only applies to slots offered from that point on.