Step 8: Availability
Your availability is a simple weekly schedule: the days you work and the hours you keep on each of them. It tells a buyer when you are likely to reply and helps them picture how their project would fit around your week.
How the Schedule Works
You'll see all seven days, Sunday through Saturday. Each one has an Open / Closed switch, and the days you turn on let you set a start and end time.
Turn on the days you work
Set your hours for each open day
Set It to Match Your Real Week
The goal is accuracy, not looking busy or looking endlessly free. Think about the week you actually have once existing clients and commitments are accounted for, and set the days and hours you can realistically answer a new inquiry.
Marking every day open around the clock reads as automated rather than impressive. A focused schedule you actually keep builds more trust than a generous one you don't.
Best Practice
If you're unsure, lean slightly conservative. It's better to reply faster than your schedule promises than to look available at hours you never check your phone.
Important
This isn't a set-and-forget field. When you take on a big project, free up capacity, or your week shifts, come back and update it — a stale schedule quietly misleads every buyer who reads it.