# Difference Between Availability per Service vs. per Team Member

> Learn when to use service-level availability vs. per-team-member availability in Cowlendar.

What is the difference between "availability per service" and "availability per team member"?

### What is Availability per service?

When setting the service on "Availability per service", Availabilities is handled at a service level, which is best for small team. 

Use this if you are 1-person team using Cowlendar.

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### What is Availability per teammate?

> **⚠️ Warning**
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> Required to be able to assign this service to a teammate. If not selected then this service will not even show up as selectable while editing your teammate

When setting the service on "Availability per teammate", availabilities will be handled at a teammate level (best for team of 2-99). 

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