Who this is for: studio operators (admin panel) · Product: Podyx V2
A slot blocker holds time on your calendar when there is no booking to hold it. Maintenance, a personal commitment, a setup day, or simply time you do not want sold. To your clients it behaves exactly like a booking: the slot is gone from your booking page.
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🔧 Where to find it
Admin Panel → Blocked Slots, and directly from your calendar.
🔄 Your synced calendar creates them automatically
When you sync a calendar, every existing event is imported immediately as a slot blocker. Imported items keep the event names from the source calendar. They do not arrive as bookings, but they do block availability on your booking page and they carry their own buffer time, so external commitments protect your schedule without you copying anything across by hand.
➕ Create one yourself
From the calendar you can create a slot blocker, a booking, or a bundle booking. Use a slot blocker whenever you need to hold time and there is no real reservation behind it.
🔒 Editing a Podyx blocker inside Google Calendar
If someone edits a blocker that was created in Podyx from inside Google Calendar, its time, title and location revert to the Podyx version. Podyx stays the source of truth for the blockers you create there, so a stray drag in Google will not quietly move blocked time and reopen a slot you meant to hold.
Two things are kept: notes and attendees added in Google stay on the event. And blockers that were imported from Google in the first place are not affected at all — those are still driven by the source calendar, exactly as before.
💡 If you need to change a Podyx blocker, change it in Podyx. That way the change sticks.
🗂 Manage them on the Blocked Slots page
Filter by room to see which blockers apply where.
Filter by date range to focus on a period.
Edit Podyx-created blockers to adjust the time or details.
Remove blockers you no longer need.
Review what is active in one centralized list.
💡 The Block Slot and Remove actions are only shown to roles that have permission to perform them — a read-only team member can view the blockers list without seeing controls they cannot use.
💡 Do you still need them?
With two-way calendar sync and room-level availability, slot blockers are less essential than they used to be, because a lot of blocking now happens on its own. They are still genuinely useful as a ledger of blocked time: a clear, filterable record of why a slot was unavailable, which a raw calendar does not give you.
⚠️ Blockers and conflicts
Podyx will not allow two slot blockers on the same time at once. If overlapping events appear through your synced calendar, they surface as conflicts so you can decide which one should win.
✅ Summary
Use slot blockers to hold time that is not a booking. Synced calendar events become blockers automatically, and you can add your own from the calendar. Blockers you create in Podyx keep their Podyx time, title and location even if someone edits them in Google. Edit or remove them from the Blocked Slots page, filter by room and date range, and let conflicts handle any overlaps.
Related: In-app Calendar · Conflicts · Availability · Connect Google Calendar