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Time off

The hard part was never blocking the time.

Any system can grey out a week. The work is the twelve people already inside it. Qlynic finds every one of them before the blackout saves, tells you which have an email on file, and sends each the same one-tap link they got with their booking — so they choose a new time themselves.

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  • Six shapes of away
  • Checked before it saves
  • Honoured on every channel
Vacation · Mon 3 – Fri 7 Nov example
12 appointments affected These bookings overlap the blackout window. Nothing has been saved yet.
  1. Mon 3 Nov 09:15 A. Whitford email
  2. Mon 3 Nov 10:00 R. Osei email
  3. Tue 4 Nov 14:30 J. Lam call
  4. Wed 5 Nov 08:45 M. Delgado email

… and 8 more

11 of 12 can be notified Save without notifying Save & notify

Six shapes

Away is not one shape.

A conference is not a dentist appointment is not a summer. There are six ways to cut time out of a doctor’s calendar, drawn below on the same five days so you can see the difference rather than read it.

  • Full day

    One date, gone entirely. Nothing books, in any channel, from midnight to midnight.

    00:00 – 24:00

  • Morning off

    Out until noon, in for the afternoon. The clinic keeps booking the second half.

    00:00 – 12:00

  • Afternoon off

    A full morning list, then nothing. The mirror of the one before it.

    12:00 – 24:00

  • Chosen hours

    Any window you like on one date — a two-hour meeting, a long lunch, a school run.

    15-minute steps

  • Vacation

    A start date, an end date, and every day between them closed in one action.

    up to 366 days

  • Scattered dates

    The days that don’t line up — a course spread over a month, every second Friday.

    up to 40 dates

Every one of them takes an optional reason, so the front desk can see why the time is closed rather than guessing. And none of them can be set in the past — a blackout is a promise about the future, not a way to rewrite last Tuesday.

Every door

Five ways in. One wall.

Everyone has had the afternoon where the calendar said closed and the website booked someone in anyway. That happens when a blackout is a mark on a calendar. Here it is a condition inside the single engine every booking surface has to get through — so there is no version of the schedule that hasn’t heard about it.

Online booking The slot never appears. Not greyed out — simply not there.
The front desk A draft can be parked there while somebody works it out. Confirming it cannot.
Patient reschedule “Doctor is not available on that date (blocked).”
Recurring series Every occurrence is judged on its own, so the series steps over the blocked weeks.
The SMS assistant Books through the same validator, so it can’t be talked into a slot that isn’t there.

Nothing stops after anything else. They were always asking the same question.

The Sunday the clocks move

A blackout is written in your clinic’s own time and converted separately for every date it covers, so the weekend the clocks change doesn’t quietly slide Monday morning by an hour. And when a local time genuinely doesn’t exist on a date, the booking is refused rather than guessed at.

Two patients, one last slot

The availability check and the booking that follows it happen inside a single lock held per doctor, so two people clicking the same slot in the same second can’t both be told yes. One books; the other is asked to pick again while the slot is still warm.

Time off

Take the week. We’ll tell them.

Choose the shape, see exactly who it touches, send them each a link to pick a new time — and then actually leave.

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  • Six shapes
  • Checked before it saves
  • Every channel

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