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Overview

Life happens. Vacations, holidays, appointments, or a day when you just need a break from the oven. Blocking off a date in The Sweet Spot marks it as a day you’re keeping clear, so it’s easy to see at a glance and so Knead can warn you before an order lands on it. A Sweet Spot day card with the calendar-with-a-slash corner button open, showing Block this day, Block this week, and Through options

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How to Block a Day

Every day card in The Sweet Spot has a small calendar-with-a-slash button in the corner. Tap it to open a Block time off popover:
  1. Open The Sweet Spot and find the day you want to block.
  2. Tap the calendar-with-a-slash corner button on that day.
  3. Choose one of:
    • Block this day — clears the single day you tapped.
    • Block this week — clears the whole week that day sits in.
    • Through a date you pick — blocks a range from that day through the end date you choose. Handy for a week-long vacation or a holiday closure.
  4. Add an optional label (e.g. “Family vacation” or “Holiday”). This note is just for you.
The day is blocked right away. A blocked day shows on your calendar with its label so you can scan your week and immediately see what’s off-limits.
Pro tip: Planning time away? Use Through and pick your return date instead of blocking each day one at a time. Add a label so future-you remembers why the week is clear.

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How to Unblock a Day

Changed your mind, or want to squeeze in a special order?
  1. Open The Sweet Spot and find the blocked day.
  2. Tap the calendar-with-a-slash corner button.
  3. Choose Unblock this day.
The day returns to normal and follows your usual working days and hours again.

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Managing Blocked Dates in Settings

You can also manage blocked dates in bulk from Settings → Capacity, under the Blocked Dates heading. Switch between Single day and Date range:
  • Single day — pick a date, add an optional Label (optional), and tap Add.
  • Date range — set From and To, add a Label (e.g. Vacation), and tap Block days.
Every blocked date is listed as “date — label” with a Remove button, so this is the easy place to plan a season of closures in one sitting or tidy up blocks after your plans change.

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Blocked Dates and Existing Orders

Blocking a date is a heads-up, not a hard stop. It doesn’t cancel or move orders you’ve already accepted for that day, and it doesn’t hide the day entirely. If you create or accept an order for a day you’ve blocked, Knead shows you a blocked-date warning with a “Take It Anyway” button — so you’re reminded, but you’re never locked out. See “Can I Take This Order?” for how that warning fits alongside your capacity signals. Before blocking a date that already has orders on it:
  1. Open the day in The Sweet Spot and review what’s scheduled.
  2. Contact those customers to reschedule if needed.
  3. Move or cancel the orders.
  4. Then block the date.
Good to know: For a day you take off every single week, don’t block each one. Turn that weekday off under Working days in Capacity settings instead. Blocking is best for one-time exceptions.
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