About Calendly
Calendly is a powerful scheduling software for organizing meetings and appointments between individuals and their colleagues, and between organizations and their clients or customers.
More than 50,000 of the world's leading organizations rely on Calendly's flexible administrative tools, enterprise-grade security, and integrations with Salesforce, Zoom, Slack, Hubspot, and more. To see how Calendly can help you maximize your scheduling efficiency, contact our sales team for a demo.
How it Works:
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. 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.
Pricing starting from:
$8.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Calendly
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Markets
Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, United States and 2 others
Supported Languages
English, French, German, Spanish
Pricing starting from:
$8.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Top 5 alternatives to Calendly
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Total features of Calendly: 38
Alternatives
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- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
I'm in control of my appointment with Calendly
Reviewed on 13/05/2022
It allows me to keep in control of my appointment and saved us a lot of time.
It allows me to keep in control of my appointment and saved us a lot of time.
Pros
I like how Calendly integrates to icloud. Its simple interface and easy-to-create events features makes it a must-have app for all your appointments (also great for paid consultation/lessons as you can collect money from the app (paid version only)).
It is easy to create an event type (one-on-one or group), and there lots of options available : event duration date range, even time zone.
I like how easy it is to apply an appointment to dates / intervals / specific recurring days and how you can implement buffers (before and after events)
You can ask invitees questions before the appointment, which is nice to have, since it allows you to save time once your client is online.
I immensely appreciate how Calendly offers all types of notification options (email reminders, follow-up and text reminders.)
When creating an event, you can choose what type of location you want (in-person, phone call, google meet, zoom.) You don't have to get in touch with your invitee to tell them how you want to meet them.
You can add Calendly to your website (even the free version) through a small widget, which makes it easy for your clients to get in touch.
Cons
Most integrations are only available on paid plans, and the free version is very limited but the company also needs to make money, so that's very understandable.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
My Go-To for Scheduling
Reviewed on 12/05/2022
When I first selected calendly, I was using doodle, and someone recommended this as a better app to...
When I first selected calendly, I was using doodle, and someone recommended this as a better app to schedule meetings. I was surely in for a surprise. This app is efficient, customisable enough, and just does the job right.
Since starting, I now have an automatic response when someone mentions wanting to meet up - I identify the correct calendly link to send.
"The right link" actually means something here. I have a few appointment types:
- Zoom meeting
- In person meeting
- Paid consultation
- Recreational meetup
Sometimes, I meet an old friend, and it's so much easier to have them select a time and suggest it, but calendly automates it, because now I can set parameters and they can schedule that hang-out at a mutually convenient time.
It requires some discipline, because you will need to put your engagements onto the calendar (I've had double bookings because I didn't put my plans into my calendar before) but now I understand the benefit, it works perfectly.
Pros
My favourite part of calendly is the ability to set a variety of appointment types, and even include paid appointments which all integrate directly into my calendar
Cons
I'm not sure there is a con here. I wanted group scheduling for meetings, and now they have it - even though I haven't used it as yet.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
100% efficient to not miss any meeting.
Reviewed on 24/05/2022
It was a solution while working at home to organize all future meetings. It allows me to quickly...
It was a solution while working at home to organize all future meetings. It allows me to quickly set up events and send tentative dates for future meetings to the attorneys. Automated reminders are my favorite tool! It ensures that all participants are present and speeds up the work.
Pros
I enjoy how easy it is to use this application, very intuitive and I love the design.
Very efficient
The synchronizations are very effective.
The integrations with Google Calendar are vital.
Cons
So far I have not had any problems with the application. It would be nice if they could add other languages like Spanish and Portuguese.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Paid for itself 1000 times over
Reviewed on 17/05/2022
Calendly is like having a virtual assistant that costs me pennies per day, but helps me earn...
Calendly is like having a virtual assistant that costs me pennies per day, but helps me earn significantly more income because it allows me to skip wasting any time playing schedule tag with people.
Now that I've realized how amazing it is, the fact that I ever got caught up in playing "schedule tag" with people seems mind boggling. I book everything from client calls, sales calls, podcasting recordings and even just networking conversations with people.
Pros
Calendly is simple, clean, and a MASSIVE time saver. For what a few hours of a VA might cost, Calendly has paid for itself after the first few bookings.
It's very easy for the client to use as well, it's not cluttered like some other scheduling software programs are, and having an APP is solid gold.
I love being able to get real time notifications of appointments and cancellations and handle all of that from my phone when necessary.
The ability to customize availability and create multiple availability calendars for different events is another brilliant asset.
I can integrate with PayPal and take payments for appointment bookings, it's simply brilliant.
Cons
Workflows are a useful tool, but still feel a little bit clunky. I like that they are there, but setting them up could be a little bit smoother.
mind you, perhaps I'm comparing this to something like Zapier which is an incredible task management software.
Reasons for Choosing Calendly
Simplicity and ease of use.Switched From
ScheduleOnceReasons for Switching to Calendly
Simplicity, ease of use and price. Also, I love that Calendly has an App, and has had one for a long time. It was one of the first booking software programs to offer this.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Extremely productive, thanks to the excellent synchronizations
Reviewed on 30/05/2022
Calendly served its purpose well. A few years ago, I started using it again. However, the product...
Calendly served its purpose well. A few years ago, I started using it again. However, the product didn't actually change during that time. The market was flooded with new items that performed the same functions, but at a lower cost and with superior features. It's a bit of a one-trick ponies in that regard.
Pros
It's a breeze to ensure that my clients can easily plan appointments with me. Calendly is how I schedule all of my interviews and appointments. It eliminates the guessing and the need for further communication, making everything simple and straightforward.
Cons
The program wasn't constantly updated by developers. It hasn't changed all that much throughout the years. In addition, the system's handling of meeting kinds was somewhat cumbersome.
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: Free Version, 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). Enterprise: Contact our sales team for a quote.
Q. Who are the typical users of Calendly?
Calendly has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does Calendly support?
Calendly supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Spanish
Q. Does Calendly support mobile devices?
Calendly supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Calendly integrate with?
Calendly integrates with the following applications:
Gmail, GoTo Meeting, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Outlook, PayPal, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Stripe, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Calendly offer?
Calendly offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Chat
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