Team members with elevated permissions (Admins and Owners) can now add restriction schedules to team event types (Collective and Round Robin). This feature acts as a policy-based filter, ensuring that bookings can only occur within specific time windows—even if team members are available outside those times.
This feature is currently available for teams on request. To enable it for your organization, please contact the Cal.com support team.

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How It Works

A Restriction Schedule filters availability by clipping off any time slots that fall outside the defined restriction window. For example: If your team’s availability is from 7 AM to 6 PM, and your restriction schedule is set from 8 AM to 5 PM, then:
  • Slots from 7 AM to 8 AM and 5 PM to 6 PM will be removed
  • Bookings can only happen between 8 AM and 5 PM
This ensures more control over when your team can be booked—even if they’re technically available outside the restricted window.

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Use Booker’s Timezone with Restriction Schedule

By default, the restriction schedule is applied in the timezone of the schedule you selected. However, you can enable the “Use Booker Timezone” option to apply the restriction based on the invitee’s local timezone. Example: If you want to prevent bookings before 8 AM local time for the booker, enable this option and define the restriction as starting from 8 AM. Now, a booker in New York won’t see slots before 8 AM New York time, even if the team is available at that hour in a different timezone.
Restriction Schedules are an additional layer on top of your availability. If you’re unavailable on a given day, Cal.com still won’t show any times—Restriction Schedules only further limit what’s shown.

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How to Set It Up

  1. Open the Team Event Type
  2. Go to the Availability tab
  3. Toggle Add Restriction Schedule to enable
  4. Select the restriction schedule from the dropdown
  5. Check the box to Use Booker’s Timezone (if desired)
  6. Click Save

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Example: TCPA Compliance

If your legal team requires you to avoid contacting customers outside 8 AM to 9 PM in their local time:
  • Create a restriction schedule from 8:00 to 21:00
  • Enable Use Booker Timezone
This guarantees that Cal.com will only show time slots within this window, evaluated in the booker’s local timezone—ensuring TCPA compliance.

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Enforcing Company-Wide Booking Rules

Restriction Schedules also allow you to:
  • Prevent early morning or late-night bookings (e.g., before 9 AM or after 5 PM)
  • Block off lunch hours globally (e.g., 12–1 PM)
  • Apply blackout periods for holidays or internal training sessions
  • Block entire days using date overrides (the event type will be unbookable on these days for all members)
If you’d like help setting this up or enabling the feature, reach out to us.