Calendly is a scheduling software that is used to automate the scheduling of appointments. Typically used for businesses to help reduce no-shows, Calendly’s customizable appointment types, automated email notification features, as well as convenient integrations with useful business applications.
Calendly is also often used as Business Scheduling of choice in Venture Capital and Personal Productivity tech stacks.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
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Languages | English |
Its easy to sign-up and add necessary details Easy to set-up your calendar Easy to maintain your availability as per different time zones Easy to share the link to your contacts Easy for clients to book calendar Instant notification and management
They should integrate an online conferencing solution like Zoom which will make easier to book and take calls in one go. It does not seem to have this function
Appointment Management Calendar Management Easy Booking and Notification
Where should I start with? Let's put it like that, if it wasn't for Calendly, I would not be able to schedule 50% of the meetings that are bringing the cash for our organization. We're an SMB shop and efficiency is key to what we're doing. Like all SMBs we're operating within the scope of the very tight budget, yet we needed to optimize our demo scheduling process. After we've found Calendly, we were able to achieve the goal. And honestly, I don't want to go back to the old dark days when prospects were tearing us apart and the team here felt like our time doesn't really belong to us, and we are no longer in control of our own schedule.
The pricing is a challenge, especially during these times. I'd be even happier if they provided discounts to SMBs during the pandemic. A great example is MR (Marcomrobot.com) - they did not charge us a single penny.
Benefits- your calendar belongs to you finally Drawbacks - pricing
The free plan of Calendly is great because it's free and lets me schedule meetings with members of my team, or prospects from other companies wanting my services. The free plan only does one basic email reminder, however, any type of reminder helps better than none. And the calendar invitations saves time.
I dislike how you only get 1 meeting type without upgrading. I also dislike how you can't do much reminders without upgrading.
I'm meeting with people using a DFY calendar scheduling software.
Whenever I am on a cold call and get interest, I tell them to go to my link and schedule a time. This way, they can choose a time they're actually available at instead of saying yes to a random time. It also makes it like a bigger event because it puts in their and my calendar.
It would be great if you could have it a different color like black, blue, red or something just to test the conversion rate. Only having white as a background means we can't test.
Scheduling sales calls with potential customers.
I enjoy the integration with google calendar and the ability to set my calls within the time frame I select. Rescheduling is easy and it is great that it organizes and saves your history.
I don’t feel like there is anything I don’t like about the software. The only thing is automating your scheduling makes it less personal.
Saves me a lot of time!
Calendly saves me a bunch of time scheduling meetings with clients. I can easily send my link out a dozen times a day, and even include it in my signature block. My clients seem to feel comforted by the fact they can schedule time with me in a few clicks.
Sometimes I want to change the settings for all of my events, but there are not universal event features or a way to make bulk edits.
Calendly makes it a lot easier and faster for me to schedule time with clients. It saves me from the headaches involved in finding a mutually good time to meet.
Meetings are handled without back and forth emails
Could have better user interface throughout usage
Fewer amounts of attention lost to clutter emails
It helps me keep organized because I'm not very organized sometimes. It's easy to use.
Everything is good. Maybe more features would be cool.
I get to schedule appointments and put it right in here
It easily allows potential clients to schedule meetings that sync with my calendar in salesforce. No more meeting phone tag.
Can be annoying to change availability if I want to block out time.
Streamlining turning leads into clients.
Automatic syncing to Google Cal! We have yet to have issues with the syncing.
The features behind the premium paywall — some of them, like simple reminder emails, seem basic enough that they shouldn’t be paid features only.
We needed an easy way for people to schedule calls with us and for us to keep track of those calls within our existing calendar system. Calendly provides that!
I like that my clients can instantly book appointment with me based on my availability which is synced with my personal calendar to block off certain dates and times.
I dislike that the administrator is unable to manually approve requests. I want to be able to approve or deny booking requests each time someone schedules to book.
Provides a free option for clients or co-workers to schedule appointments with me instantly.
I like that I can easily rsvp to an event or meeting someone invites me to and it instantly is connected to my calendars on my mobile devices and mail. I also appreciate how simple it is to view the time zones since I am interacting with people from all over the world using Calendly. Most of my meetings are on Zoom, so I am able to visit the Calendly invite and easily click the link to enter my meeting.
I truly have not found anything that I dislike yet!
Scheduling is made simple! I used to miss meetings due to time differences more often than I liked. With Calendly, I always know when it is time to be there- on time!
My clients can schedule appointments with me! They can be difficult to get on the phone so this way they can just go and set something up.
Nothing really. The user interface is nice. It is very simple to use for both myself and the clients.
The pain of having to set up an appointment with clients. They very rarely prefer to call salespeople back so this way they can set something up whenever they would like to.
It's simple to setup Great tool for creating simple websites Easy to create themes A lot of themes available It's very fast No need to install any additional software on the server
Due to fact, that it's a static website generator there are some drawbacks. There are issues with creating the forms (like contact form).
We were creating simple landing pages for the company. It was fast and simple to setup them.
Calendly is a simple, easy-to-use, yet powerful scheduling software, which aims to save time, accelerate sales, and improve service quality. It eliminates the old-school way of using email and phone tags for scheduling appointments, calls, interviews, demos, and more. It allows hot prospects to connect right away, and ensures staff doesn’t lose them to phone and email tags. It works simply and beautifully: all you need to do is to set your availability preference, share the link with clients, colleagues, etc. and let them pick a time for the event, which is automatically added to your calendar. It’s more efficient and simplified compared to traditional appoint scheduling solutions, and it makes it easy for users to setup, use, and manage scheduling of appointments and more.
Outlook plugin doesn't work at times. Need to restart the computer.
Integrate with Google, Office 365 and Outlook, and checks all calendars for conflicts to avoid double-booking.
I like the email format of the scheduling requests for appointments to their time of preference.
Since email, could get lost I’m spam or unread messages
Due to lack of communication scheduling can be difficult but Calendly makes it very easy as you get a message with time slot availability’s you can choose from
I love that Calendly allows my clients to book easily and online with just a click of the mouse. I love that it's easy to change your availabilty and that the interface is simple to navigate.
There are times when the app doesn't sync to my Google calender properly. There have been a few occasions when a client ends up getting double-booked.
I am solving the issue of the back-and-forth of emailing. People select their spot without ever having to ask me my availabilty.
It’s UX and ease of use. It also loads fast.
Nothing that I dislike about calendly. It’s perfect for what we need
Scheduling times internal and external
This is a good option for small business to schedule appointment.
Comparing with google which is free, this is a bit expensive
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