Holidays
Import the public holidays of your country and region, and add your own closures. A holiday blocks the whole day: clients cannot book online, and you see it on your calendar.
Importing public holidays
Go to Settings
Open Settings > Calendar > Holidays.
Choose country, region and year
Pick your country. If it has regional holidays, a Region picker appears next to it: choosing one adds its holidays on top of the national ones. Then pick the year - you can import the current year and the next two.
Review what will be imported
Import opens a list of every holiday for that country, region and year. Public holidays are ticked; bank, optional and commemorative days are not. Tick or untick whatever fits your business and confirm.
Done
The holidays appear in your list, grouped by year.
Importing a year replaces only that year’s imported holidays. Other years stay as they are, and your own custom holidays are never touched.
Why some days come unticked
Our source marks each day with a type. Only actual public holidays are ticked by default, because the rest are not closing days for most businesses: Columbus Day in the United States is a bank holiday, Christmas Eve in Denmark is optional, Carnival in Brazil and Portugal is optional.
If your business does close on one of those, just tick it. Timeblu remembers: the next year you import, your choice from the previous year is what comes ticked.
Regional holidays
Eleven countries publish regional holidays: Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Chile. For every other country the national list is already complete and no Region picker appears.
Town and city holidays are not published by our source. In Spain, for example, the two local days each municipality sets are not included - add those as custom holidays.
Loading future years automatically
Under the pickers there is a switch: Load future years automatically. With it on, Timeblu checks weekly and adds next year’s holidays as soon as they are published, using the same selection you made this year.
It also keeps the years you already have correct. If a date is corrected at the source, Timeblu moves it; if a day stops being a holiday, Timeblu removes it. It never adds back a holiday you removed yourself, and it only ever touches dates in the future.
If a holiday lands on a day that already has appointments, nothing is cancelled and no client is notified. You get an email so you can decide.
Custom holidays
For closures that are not on any public list - your holidays, a refurbishment, a training day.
Click Add Custom Holiday
At the bottom of the holidays section.
Fill in the details
Name, Date, and Repeat every year if it is the same date annually.
Save
Custom holidays show a pencil icon so you can edit them later. Imported ones can be deleted but not edited, because they are tied to the public list they came from.
Only one holiday per day is possible. If you already have a custom holiday on a date, an import will not overwrite it - the import dialog marks those days as already taken.
How holidays affect bookings
| Where | What happens |
|---|---|
| Online booking | The day is blocked, no slots offered |
| Booking from Timeblu | Allowed, with a warning |
| Calendar | The holiday name is shown on the day |
| Working hours | Overridden for that day |
| Existing appointments | Untouched. A new holiday never cancels anything |
Working on a holiday
Delete the holiday from Settings > Calendar > Holidays, and the day is bookable again. If the automatic loading is on, it will not come back.
Supported countries
Americas: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru
Europe: United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Greece, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Russia
Asia and Pacific: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Hong Kong
Don’t see your country? Contact support - we can only add countries our holiday source publishes data for.
Common questions
A holiday is not blocking bookings
Check the date is right and that the holiday belongs to the year you are looking at. Holidays apply to every calendar in your account; for a closure on one calendar only, use a blocking event instead.
I imported the wrong country
Pick the right country and import again. Each year you re-import is replaced, so import every year you had loaded.
The list is getting long
Past years are collapsed automatically. Click a year header to fold or unfold it.