UI for setting up availabilities

Question

Background: allow vendors to setup their availability for booking, on a mobile app. Availability goes down to hourly basis (e.g. minimum 1 hour blocks).

Goal: allow different types of user (part-timer/full-timer/freelancer) to setup the availability

Common usage patterns we've known:

• ~50% part-timers: after working hours (e.g. every weekday 7pm-midnight and day-time weekends)
• ~35% full timers: almost everyday with random off days
• ~15% freelancers: have no specific short-term patterns

Worth to mention, both part-timer/full-timer consist of mainly older audience who are not familiar with mobile apps

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Solutions proposed so far:

2 step setup process:

• step 1: setup a weekly recurring timeframe (i.e. weekday evening + night)
• step 2: customise down to the hourly slot for each day (still weekly recurring basis)

editing availability

• editing down to specific date and time is possible

Problems:

• too complicated
• user don't know what to do

Answer 1

Allow the smaller group of people who don't want to set up weekly schedules to skip directly to your customization screen—#4, by adding something like a "Let me customise..." button below the weekday selections:

   

Also, screen #1, write "Which weekdays..." to clarify the weekly nature of the configuration.