Time Slots

A sign-up can be built three ways, and you choose one for the whole form — not per item. That is the thing people most often look for and cannot find: there is no "add a time slot to this item" control, because the choice is made at the top of the items editor.

While editing your sign-up, look for the toggle above your list of items:

Option What people see Use it for
Items A list of things to sign up for Snacks, jobs, supplies
Timeslots A list of times Appointments, shifts, conferences
Items with Timeslots Each job, with times underneath it Several jobs running at once, each needing people at particular times

Items with Timeslots — several jobs at the same time

This is the one to use when two different jobs happen in the same window. For example:

  • 2:00–3:00pm — Water station · Color throwers
  • 4:50–5:50pm — Water station · Color throwers

Each job gets its own times underneath it, and each time can take a different number of people.

  1. Open your sign-up and click Edit.
  2. At the top of the items list, choose Items with Timeslots.
  3. Add your jobs, then add the times. The times are created under each job.
  4. Set how many people each one needs.
  5. Click Done.

Timeslots on their own

Choose Timeslots when the form is only about when, not what — parent–teacher conferences, equipment bookings, a rota of identical shifts.

You can let Lome generate them: say something like "two hour long appointments all day" or pick a fixed interval such as every 15 or 30 minutes, and it creates the slots for you. You can edit any of them afterwards, including the emoji.

Changing your mind afterwards

Switching between these three options clears what you have already built. Lome will warn you first — the message says it will remove all items — and that includes any sign-ups already attached to them.

If your form is already shared and people have responded, do not switch. Instead:

  1. Edit → Settings → Duplicate Event to make a copy.
  2. Change the copy to the layout you want.
  3. Share the new link.

Your original form and everyone who signed up to it stay exactly as they are.

Adding a time to a job that already exists

You can add more times to a job without starting over — it is only switching between the three options that clears things. Add the new time under the job it belongs to and click Done.

If you are unsure and your form already has sign-ups on it, write to us and we will do it with you rather than risk the responses.

Time zones

Times are shown in the sign-up's time zone, which you can change at the top of the editor. Guests in other time zones see the times converted to their own.

Which plans have this

Time slots are on our paid plans. On the free plan the option does not appear.

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