# Settings

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The tool's workspace settings live under **Settings > Tools > Appointment Booking**, in four subpages. This page is the reference with all defaults, and it shows you which settings deliberately live elsewhere.
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Changing settings requires the configure permission for the tool.

## Booking page

Shapes the first impression of your public pages:

<DefinitionList>
  <DefItem term="Welcome text (Begrüßungstext)">Sits on your `/book` overview above the event types. Default (German): "Willkommen! Wählen Sie einen Termin, der Ihnen passt."</DefItem>
  <DefItem term="Show profile picture (Profilbild anzeigen)">Switch, default: **on**. Shows the host's profile picture and name on the booking pages. Without a picture, a monogram in your brand color appears.</DefItem>
</DefinitionList>

## Notifications

In the platform you are always notified. Every email around an appointment is a workflow inside the tool, including the ones to you and your team.

<Info title="All appointment emails run through workflows">
The host emails on booking and cancellation ("Host-Benachrichtigung bei Buchung", "Host-Info bei Absage") are ordinary workflows: you switch them on and off under [Workflows](/tools/booking/workflows) and adjust subject and text like any other message. All appointment emails to guests (confirmation, reminder, cancellation, follow-up) are managed there as well; confirmation and cancellation are fixed system workflows. The former "Email to host" switch on this subpage was removed because it no longer had any effect once the workflows existed.
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Every workspace receives the five standard workflows when the tool is installed: booking confirmation, cancellation info to the guest, reminder 24 hours before, host notification on booking and host info on cancellation.

## Contacts

<DefinitionList>
  <DefItem term="Create contacts automatically (Kontakte automatisch anlegen)">Switch, default: **off**. If someone books with an email that matches no contact, the tool automatically creates a contact in the central address book and links the appointment. Also applies to WhatsApp bookings.</DefItem>
  <DefItem term="Excluded addresses and domains (Ausgeschlossene Adressen und Domains)">A text list, one address or domain per line (`test@beispiel.de` or `@deinbuero.de`). For these emails a contact is never created automatically. A counter confirms how many entries are active.</DefItem>
</DefinitionList>

Details on the contacts area itself: [Contacts](/tools/booking/kontakte).

## Calendar

This subpage is just a **signpost**: connecting external calendars, blocking busy times and subscribing to your bookings in your own calendar are managed directly in the tool, in the **Availability** area under the **Kalender** tab. Guide: [Availability and calendars](/tools/booking/verfuegbarkeit#calendars).

## What deliberately lives inside the tool

Not everything configurable sits under settings. You maintain these directly in the tool, where you need them:

- **Event type options** (duration, buffers, form, visibility, language, redirect and more): in the editor of the respective [event type](/tools/booking/terminarten).
- **Schedules, date overrides, meeting limits and holidays**: in the [Availability](/tools/booking/verfuegbarkeit) area.
- **Workflows** (reminders, follow-ups, WhatsApp): in the [Workflows](/tools/booking/workflows) area.
- **Routing forms**: in the [Routing](/tools/booking/routing-formulare) area.
- **Integrations** (calendar, website, WhatsApp bot, onOffice, webhooks, ICS export): in the tool's **Integrations** area.

## Further reading

Back to the overview: [Appointment Booking](/tools/booking). Next page: [Troubleshooting](/tools/booking/troubleshooting).