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Calendly

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What is Calendly?

Calendly is appointment scheduling software from the company of the same name in Atlanta, Georgia. Calendly is available via a free plan that allows users to book unlimited 1:1 appointments. Paid plans, starting at $8 per month enable meetings with…

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10 out of 10
March 28, 2024
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Calendly is a scheduling tool that simplifies the process of setting up appointments and meetings. Users find that Calendly makes booking …
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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud

Standard

$10.00

Cloud
per month per seat

Teams

$16.00

Cloud
per month per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $10 per month per seat
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Product Demos

HOW TO SETUP ROUTING FORMS IN CALENDLY

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Calendly Tutorial 2019 - Making (Sales) Appointments the easy way

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How to use Calendly (Free Tool): Integrate with Zoom (2021) #calendlytutorial

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CalendarApp Demo (Calendly Clone) - Built with React, NodeJS and MongoDB

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Calendly Demo Review - Advanced Level PREVIEW by Bizversity.com

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Calendly Demo Review - Beginners Guide PREVIEW by Bizversity.com

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Product Details

What is Calendly?

Calendly is a hub for scheduling meetings, designed to eliminate the hassle of back-and-forth emails. Boasting users among more than 50,000 companies and 10 million people around the world, Calendly now offers extended capabilities for teams with additional collaboration functionality, administration controls, and enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Calendly Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Calendly is appointment scheduling software from the company of the same name in Atlanta, Georgia. Calendly is available via a free plan that allows users to book unlimited 1:1 appointments. Paid plans, starting at $8 per month enable meetings with multiple invitees, a customizable appointment page, and more advanced integrations than those available on the free plan. The Pro plan includes appointment reminders, and follow up workflows. Calendly's more recently launched enterprise plan (launched 2021) includes more advanced security features and live business support.

Calendly starts at $10.

Chili Piper, Doodle, and Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company are common alternatives for Calendly.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of Calendly are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Calendly is a scheduling tool that simplifies the process of setting up appointments and meetings. Users find that Calendly makes booking appointments much easier and reduces the back-and-forth communication. With its simple and clean interface, Calendly solves the problem of scheduling consultations by providing a hassle-free experience for both users and clients. It frees up time for sales and marketing reps to focus on important tasks, automates marketing processes, and accomplishes tasks with just one click. Users appreciate that Calendly can be easily synced with Google calendar, automatically updating their schedule. This allows them to set up meetings passively and schedule times that are convenient for contacts.

Calendly is used in various scenarios, such as onboarding meetings with new customers, one-off trainings with current customers, scheduling interviews, matching applicant schedules with interviewers, and booking sales calls. It is also utilized by businesses for client calls and meeting requests. The ability to integrate with Google calendar, send reminders automatically, and customize each client session makes Calendly a preferred choice among freelance consultants. Nonprofit organizations benefit from Calendly as it reduces the need for sending back-and-forth emails when scheduling meetings. Additionally, individuals rely on Calendly to book lunch or coffee meetings effortlessly without multiple emails to find a mutually available time slot.

Calendly is widely used by Customer Experience and User Experience teams for coordinating interviews and user testing, eliminating the outdated method of manually suggesting available times. Employees across departments use Calendly to organize meeting dates, prevent overlapping in schedules, receive calendar reminders, and invite external participants from outsourced companies. Moreover, recruiters leverage Calendly to streamline the interview scheduling process for candidates. The integration with video conferencing tools like Zoom and Webex has received positive feedback from prospects and clients.

While some users have found challenges in integrating Calendly with Microsoft Office or Outlook, overall it is considered a helpful product. The free version is recommended for basic needs, and the premium features cater to those requiring advanced functionalities. Calendly's efficiency in automating scheduling, reducing backend work for appointment setters, and streamlining webinar and consulting session scheduling has made it a go-to tool for many organizations. Its ability to seamlessly set up meetings and eliminate extensive booking conversations, especially for global clients, has been highly appreciated by users.

User-Friendly Interface: Calendly is praised for its user-friendly and intuitive interface. Users appreciate the clean and simple design, making it easy to navigate and customize. The visual interface for clients is described as clutter-free and straightforward, allowing them to see available days and times without any confusion.

Customization Options: Calendly offers a wide range of customization options that users find valuable. They can easily set up appointment lengths, names, criteria, and mandatory questions according to their preferences. This allows users to gather relevant information for sales calls and streamline the scheduling process.

Integration with Google Calendar: Calendly's integration with Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCal is highly valued by users. It provides real-time updates, avoids scheduling conflicts, and seamlessly adds confirmed appointments to users' calendars.

Limited customization options: Users mentioned frustration with the lack of customization and branding options in Calendly. Some users expressed the desire to upload brand logos, assets, and use brand color codes in their profile settings.

Inability to sync with multiple calendars: The inability of Calendly to sync with more than one calendar at a time was mentioned as inconvenient for users who keep different calendars or use different calendar platforms.

Lack of flexibility in scheduling: Users found the hourly and half-hourly session-based scheduling limitation problematic, as they desired the ability to schedule in 15-minute increments even with existing bookings in adjacent time slots.

Users highly recommend Calendly for its effectiveness in scheduling meetings and its suitability for their company needs. They greatly appreciate the value they receive for the cost paid. Additionally, they advise considering alternative solutions if reminders or requesting specific information during a demo booking are necessary. These user recommendations provide valuable insights into the strengths and limitations of Calendly as a scheduling tool, making it an excellent option for simplifying meeting scheduling and meeting basic requirements.

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Matt Heerema | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Calendly is being used across our entire agency to vastly streamline the appointment scheduling process for team meetings as well as client consultations, sales, and support meetings. I have even started using it personally to schedule lunch or coffee with people who want to meet up locally. Instead of dozens of emails going back and forth to try and find a mutually available time slot, the available times on our end are automatically displayed to the invitee, allowing them to select whatever available slot works for them. It has turned dozens of interactions into a single interaction. A real lifesaver.
Joseph Brown, PhD., CFEd®️ | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Calendly is used daily in all departments internally and externally with our B to B and B to C interactions. It helps us to easily and effortlessly schedule meetings, trainings, etc. between management and staff both individually and collectively. In the area of training, it is quite effective to use Calendly in a round-robin style to schedule with people during their availability. However, I find it most useful when I’m dealing with clients whether directly over the phone, text, or email or indirectly through social media, landing pages, and/or email. It solves the problem of managing the types and number of appointments so I can focus on spending time profitably. It goes without saying that it is the most convenient way of scheduling. It also is very efficient at sending reminders giving people an opportunity to reschedule if life happens or save you from time wasters that aren’t serious yet.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to book appointments both externally, and internally, as we are a remote team. A key feature is the time-zone adjuster. I'm able to easily set up meetings with my colleagues on other continents without worrying too much about whether or not we will all have the time correctly on our calendars. It's also helpful that it automatically sends out Zoom meeting information so that people know how to join my meeting.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A team of support and sales folks used Calendly to schedule meetings with customers and prospects. We mostly used this as a proactive tool for scheduling: in canned emails (or email replies) the team sent links to their Calendly accounts so people could schedule time on their calendar. The tool helped the team prevent back and forth communications to find an available time to meet. Some sort of scheduling tool like this is necessary for any phone-based sales or support role!
Kate Knight | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Calendly in several different ways within our organization. We use it to keep track of all the moving parts within our company, as we have several different programs running all at once, employees are typically scattered throughout the area we serve. We can easily see where other case managers are at any given time, and also easily update the schedule remotely. I personally also use it to schedule one on one appointments with my clients as well as partnering agencies. Everyone has a crazy schedule nowadays, Calendly makes it easy to keep track of all these appointments.
February 05, 2020

Calendly Is Cool

Austin Voigt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Calendly is currently being used by my team to sync schedules and tasks quickly and easily, and automatically set up plans/meetings/sprints for our initiatives as a team. It would be great if our entire company used this product cross-team, and I think we’re working towards that future state. Calendly is like a project manager for us.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe a lot of us use it, but mostly in sales we use it to manage quick question calls - we give our available call times and offer our prospects a special block for their questions. It helps us keep track of a prospect that only has a little window of time available to chat.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Calendly is currently being used within our HR department, more specifically within our talent acquisition department. One big issue any recruiter faces is scheduling interviews. Oftentimes it involves phone tag and multiple emails to connect with an applicant in order to schedule an interview. With Calendly, the main business problem is addresses for my department is interview scheduling. Calendly links up with your Outlook calendar and shows candidates time slots you are available based on your real-time calendar. Calendly is a huge time saver!
January 29, 2020

Calendly is Not All That

Sarah Bandy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I generally use Calendly in order to integrate calendars and process invitations with my team and with colleagues. I think I'm the one that uses it most often, but our Program Director also uses it to organize and invite folks to meetings. Originally, I signed up with Calendly to try out a new method for meetings and see how it worked.
Jose F. Gomez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Calendly across a few different teams to help people share their calendar availability so that anyone can book a time to talk to them. It's especially useful for our Sales and Marketing people because they get to know so many people that it's difficult to keep track of names/emails and Calendly simplifies this by providing a unique and easy to remember URL that people can share or put in business cards to enable appointment bookings.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have an interview team of 15 users that video-screen roughly 20 applicants a week. Calendly is a great option for applicants to easily match-up their schedules with one of our interviewers. This is way more efficient than an endless chain of emails trying to match the right applicant with the right interviewer. Calendly just does it all for you!
Dawn Rabinowitz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Calendly to schedule sessions with my clients. I can open an event and they can use Calendly to schedule a consultation for their session or to book a session during an event. It is easy to use, integrates with my Google calendar and sends reminders automatically. I like that I can ask questions about each client for their session specifically to prepare their customization requests.
Marcus Torres | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to give our clients an efficient and easy way to set up calls to connect with our CS team. Instead of going back and forth on possible meeting times, our reps can easy provide their availability and specific time slot offering for the client to book at their own convienence.
Jillyn Dillon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We love Calendly! It's made scheduling meeting in our company so much easier and more efficient, and our clients really like being able to schedule (and reschedule) their meetings themselves. I have a paid account, but the rest of my team is using the free version.
Rachel Green | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Calendly provides Dyknow with an easy and frictionless scheduling experience with those outside of our organization. It is used by our sales, marketing, and services teams. Calendly reduces the time-consuming back-and-forth between prospects, clients, external consultants, and vendors with our internal teams on getting meetings scheduled. Calendly allows the recipients to pick a convenient time that works best for them that live-syncs with our internal calendars ensuring we are available at the time they select.
April 24, 2019

Scheduling Freedom

Andy Abramson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Calendly to make it easy for outsiders to book meetings and schedule calls with us. As a company, we use it for all senior staff as it solves a big problem of getting outsiders to book appointments without going back and forth through email or phone calls. In the past, there was this steady back and forth, but Calendly gives everyone real-time access to the calendar, in their own time zone, and making an appointment is a breeze.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Calendly to schedule appointments with current and potential coaching clients. It eliminates the back-and-forth "ping-pong" emails that I used to use when trying to set up times for meetings. Calendly gives real-time access to my calendar so clients can choose the date and time that works best for them when scheduling a meeting.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Calendly is used by multiple departments at my company, including Customer Experience and Sales. We use it to easily schedule calls with current clients and prospects looking to schedule a demo. We simply include our custom Calendly link in our emails/email signatures so our clients/prospects can see our availability and schedule a time to chat.
Namrata D | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I work with clients that are located in different countries and, therefore, different time zones. So, setting up meetings was always an issue. There were time zone related problems in addition to the usual back and forth of trying to find common available time. I installed Calendly off the recommendation of a colleague. And boy has it completely changed the way I schedule meetings. It's a great tool. I just send the link to whoever I want to set up a meeting with and it automatically shows them when I am free in their local time. And I get a notification when someone books a meeting with me in my local time. Plus, it integrates with my Outlook so I don't have to worry about meeting conflicts. It is an absolutely amazing software that I now recommend to anyone who needs a better way to set up meetings.
Brad Meinen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to schedule sales and consulting meetings for multiple business units in our organization. Currently, it is being utilized in two of our business units. I has helped us address the need to sync our scheduling software with Salesforce and GoToMeeting, as that is what we were using for our CRM and video conferencing solutions. It also had a complex enough teaming capability to pool availability and also prioritize consultants within that pool. Their customer service has been second to none, and they helped us get our pretty complex scheduling requirements up and running within a week. I highly recommend this software.
Scott Entwistle | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I primarily use Calendly for my own personal scheduling for work. As a recruiter, a lot of my time is spent figuring out the best times to talk to a candidate to schedule an interview so Calendly greatly helps to cut that time down. Instead of going back and forth three or four times to figure out a time and then sending out a calendar invite, I just send out the Calendly link and the rest falls in place.
Jason Carlage | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Calendly for each member of the sales team. When emailing customers or potential customers, we send them a link to our Calendly account so that it's easy for our customers to see when we are available and book a time. It helps to eliminate some of the back and forth in terms of emailing to find out when customers are available.
Daniel Shatzkes CEO Entrepreneur, Manufacturer, Musician | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I started using Calendly this past year as a means of creating a CTA with people I wanted to speak with or meet with. I use it within emails as well as in my email signature. I also use my Calendly link as a CTA in custom videos that I create in Dubb. It's incredibly useful that it can be easily synced with my Google calendar and automatically update my schedule. Once I started using it I recommended it to my partner who began using it as well. It has served us very so far in allowing us to set up meetings passively by giving our contacts the opportunity to schedule a time to speak at a time that is convenient for them.
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