Calendly Overview
What is Calendly?
Calendly is a scheduling software for organizing meetings and appointments between individuals and their colleagues, and between businesses and their clients or customers.
Calendly enables users to set their availability preferences, and then send out their own personalized invitation link to arrange meetings or appointments. The invitee is presented with a selection of available times and dates based around the user’s availability, and can make their choice from these. Calendly includes suggested meeting lengths of 15, 30, and 60 minutes, but users can create an unlimited number of different event types to suit their needs, set buffer time between appointments, and enforce a minimum scheduling notice period to prevent the last-minute booking of meetings.
Calendly allows users to set up and send out different invite types, giving invitees the opportunity to select the meeting format, which team member they wish to speak to, or both. Meetings can also be auto-assigned to any staff member available at the time an invitee chooses for their appointment. After invitees respond, they can be directed from the event confirmation page to the user’s site, or a custom ‘thank you’ page.
Calendly automatically sends out custom confirmation emails and event reminders to invitees, and notifies all meeting participants via email if an attendee reschedules. Integrations with Google and Office 365 calendars enable users’ calendars to be automatically updated, with Calendly checking for any booking conflicts before adding events.
Calendly Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
14-day free trial, no credit card required.
Basic: free.
Premium: $8 per user, per month (billed annually) or $10 per user, per month (billed monthly).
Pro: $12 per user, per month (billed annually) or $15 per user, per month (billed monthly).
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Calendly Reviews
Calendly Reviews
The Difference between Important and Urgent
My experience is extremely positive. Having a tool to help schedule meetings allows me to prioritize important, urgent, and non essential meetings. Ultimately it allows me to work smarter and get more things done while reducing my stress. This is one of my favorite tools to use and to share with others.
Eliminates the headache of scheduling
I've used Calendly for a few years with a few different teams, and several of my colleagues have even adopted it after hearing how much it's helped me.
Bad technical support team - made us lose money AND now asked fro upgrade
I was fairly happy with Calendly, even though it was more expensive than its competitors. It looks great on mobile and pretty simple to set up. However, we had a very unique situation with our booking and I reached out to their team about it and explained it all. Of course, since I was not a paying member, all the answers were "yes you can" ... and they even showed me how to do it. I thought all was working, until a few months down the road, I found that actually, we have been losing booking (paid) potentials all along because of some conflicting issues their team forgot to mention (or just made a mistake in their advice).
I reached out and their solution was for us to PAY MORE for another user account. They even owned up to making the mistake of giving bad advice. I offered them a compromise and they stayed with their position I need to pay for a whole extra account. Now we are stuck with them.
Great Way for People To Get on Your Calendar!
Overall it continues to do the job I need it to do. I do feel it could be more effective if they tweeked it a little, but I continue to use it, I continue to refer it to others, and and until a better option reveals itself, I'll be staying with Calendly.
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Pros
I like how easy it is to use Calendly to schedule meeting times. It's easy if someone is familiar or it's the first time they're using it to pick a meeting time.
Cons
Not a true con but food for thought. I would have to explain Calendly the first time someone selected a meeting time. I found myself doing this so frequently I recorded my own how to video. I suggest making a dead simple video power users could share out with new users.
Eliminates the headache of scheduling
I've used Calendly for a few years with a few different teams, and several of my colleagues have even adopted it after hearing how much it's helped me.
Pros
I utilize Calendly in all of my email correspondence and it is a lifesaver! I frequently get comments of appreciation for how easy it makes it to find time to connect and cuts out the needless back and forth on email. It runs seamlessly in the background and I don't even have to think about it!
Cons
I wish there was more functionality in the free version, but upgrading to a premium subscription won't break the bank and is well worth it for the added efficiency.
Bad technical support team - made us lose money AND now asked fro upgrade
I was fairly happy with Calendly, even though it was more expensive than its competitors. It looks great on mobile and pretty simple to set up. However, we had a very unique situation with our booking and I reached out to their team about it and explained it all. Of course, since I was not a paying member, all the answers were "yes you can" ... and they even showed me how to do it. I thought all was working, until a few months down the road, I found that actually, we have been losing booking (paid) potentials all along because of some conflicting issues their team forgot to mention (or just made a mistake in their advice).
I reached out and their solution was for us to PAY MORE for another user account. They even owned up to making the mistake of giving bad advice. I offered them a compromise and they stayed with their position I need to pay for a whole extra account. Now we are stuck with them.
Pros
Looks great on mobile. Easy to use. Allows capture of utm_source
Cons
At the time I signed up, there was really nothing stopping me... until I found out their support team led me to paying 2x than I should be.
Saves time!
Overall, this has been a huge timesaver!
Pros
I love this software! I have requests for meetings constantly and this saves me so much time! Rather than constant emails trying to coordinate schedules, now I just have a link in my email signature and anyone can schedule a time that works for them! I can link the app to multiple calendars and customize when I'm available. I have several different types of meetings set up. When an event is scheduled, it's also added directly to my calendar so I don't have to see it in an email (or miss it in an email).
Cons
It doesn't really have a feature to coordinate the best meeting time for multiple people.
Great Way for People To Get on Your Calendar!
Overall it continues to do the job I need it to do. I do feel it could be more effective if they tweeked it a little, but I continue to use it, I continue to refer it to others, and and until a better option reveals itself, I'll be staying with Calendly.
Pros
I use it in my email signature as well as on my LinkedIn profile. Usually, passively, I receive anywhere from 3-5 calendar appointments per month just from having it in people's line of sight. It offers people an pressure free way for them to set up an appointment on my calendar. For some prospects it just feels better to let them set it, rather than pressure them for a time.
Cons
I wish I could utilize the link better. On my LinkedIn page there isn't a way for Calendly to have an attractive looking, professional icon for a person to click. In the end it does the job, but the user experience is a little clunky.
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Calendly Pricing
Calendly Pricing
14-day free trial, no credit card required.
Basic: free.
Premium: $8 per user, per month (billed annually) or $10 per user, per month (billed monthly).
Pro: $12 per user, per month (billed annually) or $15 per user, per month (billed monthly).
14-day free trial, no credit card required.
Basic: free.
Premium: $8 per user, per month (billed annually) or $10 per user, per month (billed monthly).
Pro: $12 per user, per month (billed annually) or $15 per user, per month (billed monthly).
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Calendly Features
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Additional information for Calendly
Additional information for Calendly
Key features of Calendly
- API access
- Activity tracking
- Auto-assigned meetings
- Automated reminders
- Automatic email notifications
- Buffer time between meetings
- Calendar integrations
- Collaboration tools
- Customizable branding
- Customizable email templates
- Email alerts
- Event scheduling
- Group events
- Knowledge base
- Microsoft Outlook integration
- Minimum scheduling notice
- Mobile alerts
- Personal availability preferences
- Personalized invitation link
- Pooled team availability
- Real-time notifications
- Reporting & statistics
- Secret events
- Team availability dashboard
- Team scheduling
- Unlimited event types
- iCalendar support
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Calendly FAQs
Calendly FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Calendly.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Calendly offer?
Calendly offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $8.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
14-day free trial, no credit card required. Basic: free. Premium: $8 per user, per month (billed annually) or $10 per user, per month (billed monthly). Pro: $12 per user, per month (billed annually) or $15 per user, per month (billed monthly).
Q. What are the main features of Calendly?
Calendly offers the following features:
- API access
- Activity tracking
- Auto-assigned meetings
- Automated reminders
- Automatic email notifications
- Buffer time between meetings
- Calendar integrations
- Collaboration tools
- Customizable branding
- Customizable email templates
- Email alerts
- Event scheduling
- Group events
- Knowledge base
- Microsoft Outlook integration
- Minimum scheduling notice
- Mobile alerts
- Personal availability preferences
- Personalized invitation link
- Pooled team availability
- Real-time notifications
- Reporting & statistics
- Secret events
- Team availability dashboard
- Team scheduling
- Unlimited event types
- iCalendar support
Q. Who are the typical users of Calendly?
Calendly has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Non Profit, Freelancers, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Calendly support?
Calendly supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Spanish
Q. What type of pricing plans does Calendly offer?
Calendly has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Q. Does Calendly support mobile devices?
We do not have any information about what devices Calendly supports
Q. What other apps does Calendly integrate with?
Calendly integrates with the following applications:
ActiveCampaign, Ad Sales Genius, Azendoo, BigMarker, Drip, EasyHire.me, Leadpages, LeadsBridge, Workato, Wrike
Q. What level of support does Calendly offer?
Calendly offers the following support options:
Online Support, Knowledge Base, Video Tutorials, Forum
My experience is extremely positive. Having a tool to help schedule meetings allows me to prioritize important, urgent, and non essential meetings. Ultimately it allows me to work smarter and get more things done while reducing my stress. This is one of my favorite tools to use and to share with others.