October Fixes: Calendar, Onboarding and Polish

Not every update is a headline feature. This is the small-print changelog for the early-October 2026 release, and it is three fixes: your Google Calendar no longer shows you as "awaiting" on your own bookings, the onboarding "skip" now asks before it leaves you with an empty page, and the profession landing pages got visually cleaner. None are glamorous. All of them remove friction.

Your calendar stops showing you as "awaiting"

When a guest booked you, the event landed on your Google Calendar but showed you as "awaiting" with no checkmark, as if you had not responded to your own booking. We now mark the host attendee as accepted when the event is created, so it shows confirmed on your side immediately. This was a Google behaviour change, not a regression in our code: Google used to auto-accept the event organiser and quietly stopped, which is why the attendee responseStatus now has to be set explicitly. The guest still shows as "awaiting" until they respond, which is correct, since they are the one being invited. For how the integration is meant to work end to end, see payments and calendars on autopilot.

Onboarding won't let you skip the one step that counts

The biggest leak in getting a new host live was the one-tap "skip" on the go-live screen. Most hosts who finished onboarding with zero services had used it, some of them on a paid plan, and a booking page with no service is a shop with empty shelves. So the skip now asks first. Instead of leaving on one tap, it opens a confirmation, "Leave without a service?", with the primary action pointing you back to add one and "Skip anyway" demoted to a quieter secondary. Nobody is forced to add a service, but nobody skips it by accident either. If you are setting up now, onboarding a host in 60 seconds walks through adding that first service.

The profession pages got cleaner

We removed the small uppercase "eyebrow" labels from the top of all 19 profession landing pages and their sections, so the headline is the first thing you read instead of a label floating above it. A few pages also had their hero cards repositioned so the mascot and the floating "booked" and "reminder" cards sit cleanly instead of overlapping. Small stuff, but it is the difference between a page that looks considered and one that looks busy. The copy, plans and booking flow on each page are unchanged.

Every fix in this October release

Why we write these down

Shipping is not just features; it is the hundred small corrections that make the product feel calm. Writing the boring fixes down keeps us honest and gives you a real record of what changed. For the bigger October items, see product OTP and verification badges. Ready to put it to use? Set up your page. The craft is yours; the machinery is ours.