Hello Maria,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

Unfortunately, there is currently no such option with Amelia's built-in features. You can suggest that feature on the following link: https://features.wpamelia.com/ 

We carefully follow suggestions from our customers and the more vote the feature gets, the more priority we put on implementing that feature in one of the future updates.

Hi, Maria.

Could you tell us what will be the duration of each appointment for this Service?

For example, here is an idea for one of the workarounds possible.

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1. If the Service would last 25 minutes,  you can set the Default Time step to 5 minutes,

then you can set the Service Duration to exactly 25 minutes;

then in Amelia General settings Enable to Use service duration for booking a time slot,

and Include service buffer time in time slots.

For the Employee Work Hours, you can set the Opening Hours to start from 7 : 50.

Then the times offered will be as you requested :

Additionaly, you can remove showing the 'appointment end times' , in Amelia Customize :

2. Another idea, 

If we set up the Service to last 20 minutes + add a buffer time after each appointment for 5 minutes;

then technically, Amelia will count the 5 minutes in the entire appointment duration,

so the offered time slots on front-end for customers will be exactly as you said :

07:50

08:15 08:40 09:05

etc.

3. Or, you can set 20 minutes Default Time Slot Step,

and if you disable to Use service duration for booking a time slot, 

 add a 5 minute Buffer Time to the Service,  then the offered times will be

7 : 50 , 8 : 10, 

8 : 30, etc;

but if someone books any appointment, you can give buffer time after each appointment so that the provider will always have 5 minutes afterwards, before any other customer can book the next one.

4. If you want to manually set up when the employee will be available for each individual time slot,

you can create manual individual small working time spans,  and you can also add breaks.

Let us know if that can help,

if not, can you elaborate a bit more about the use-case, what should be the duration of the appointments, etc?

Thanks.

Hi, Maria.

I am happy to hear that you managed to set up the workaround as intended, that is great news!

Just wanted to comment on one detail you mentioned,

you said there could be some services that would last less than 25 minutes,

we can also think something for these services.

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In Amelia, you are able to set the default time step as low as 1 minute.

So, even if the Service duration will be 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, etc,

we should be able to make something work.

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For example, in specific use-cases, you can first go in the General Settings and temporarily change the default Time Step, just for few moments,

then you can set up any service duration you need.

As long as you set the default time step that can be dividable from the service duration.

Let's say if all /most of your services will need 20 minutes default time step + and buffer times, possible breaks for employees, etc,

but you just want one additional service to set duration of 15 minutes.

You can go in, set default Time Step as 15 minutes,

then create your new Service ,set duration to 15 minutes, save it;

and after that you can change the default Time Step again, back to 20 minutes ( or anything else).

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As a last resort , you can also always make "Special Days" for employees, here you can manually set up any working hours you need,

and they will override the default Schedule.

Let us know if that helps, and if you have any remaining services that are still configured.