A meeting request means nothing if the person on the other end was never free to begin with. Until now, availability wasn't very visible, so requests landed on people who couldn't take them, and the frustration piled up on both sides. This update fixes that at the source: everyone sets their own availability, and the booking flow respects it.

What's New

Two things change on People and Exhibitor lists:

• Manage availability: a new button appears wherever time slots exist for an event, opening a simple flow to mark yourself available or blocked, day by day.
• Book a meeting: a dedicated "Need to meet?" section with a clear Book a meeting button, shown only to groups actually authorized to send requests.
• My Schedule/My Meetings: manage the availabilities directly from my schedule or my meetings with a quick new button "Manage your availabilities"

How It Works

1. Open the People list or Exhibitor list 
2. Tap Manage availability to open the availability sheet.
3. Each day lists your time slots: tap any slot to toggle it, or use the day checkbox to enable a whole day at once.
4. Slots already tied to a confirmed meeting show the other person's name and can't be toggled off.
5. Save: your availability is now visible to whoever books you.

Key Behaviors & Options

• Color-coded slots: green means open, grey means blocked or already booked (with the other person's name shown for context).
• Bulk day toggle: the checkbox next to a date enables every open slot for that day in one tap; a partial day shows a dash instead of a full check.
• Dismissible, not gone: on mobile, closing the availability/booking card with the ✕ hides it for the day, but it resurfaces every day through the event so it's never permanently missed.
• Request volume counter: once an event passes 50 total meeting requests sent, a running counter ("+50 meeting requests already sent," "+100," etc.) appears next to the Book a meeting button, updating every 50 requests.
• Scoped to who's eligible: the Book a meeting section only shows for attendees and exhibitors actually part of a group allowed to send requests.

Why Organizers Will Love It

Unavailable-participant requests were a quiet source of no-shows and support tickets, and for high-touch programs like hosted buyer tracks, they were becoming a real risk. By putting availability directly in the hands of attendees and exhibitors, every meeting request is sent against real, current availability. Fewer wasted requests, fewer awkward "sorry, I can't make it" replies, and networking numbers that actually reflect people showing up.

💡 Pro tip: Encourage attendees and exhibitors to set their availability before the event opens; the earlier it's filled in, the fewer meeting requests get blocked by an empty schedule on day one.

💡 Pro tip: The request counter is a nice social-proof nudge; if your event has strong meeting activity, it reinforces to attendees that the networking is real and worth engaging with.