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October 17, 2023

Add rule to limit / set maximum number of meetings of a type per week

  • October 17, 2023
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I have appreciated the ability to limit the number of meetings of a certain type that can be scheduled per day (under ‘additional rules for your availability’)… but would LOVE to be able to also limit the number of meetings of a certain type per week.

 

My situation… for 2024 I have a personal goal to host a new acquaintance for lunch once a week… but afraid if I use my standard lunch Calendly invite with this group, I could end up with multiple in the same week… and I would prefer not to have to manually block my calendar to do so.

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Pinned Reply By Sean Marlin

Hi all, a lot of different types of asks in here associated with Meeting Limits. Just to update everyone - Meeting Limits can be set at increments of total per day, week, and month. Additionally, they can be set per event type as well as per host. Setting per host is a new feature we are very excited to announce. You can read all things Meeting Limits here - How to set meeting limits

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New Community Member
February 20, 2024

Hi, supporting this too. The daily limit feature helps with limiting meetings to one a day which is great, but, I would like to leave 5 days open for scheduling so that prospects can schedule 2 meeting at any of the 5 days, but once two meetings are scheduled, everything gets blocked.

New Community Member
February 21, 2024

Hi! I’d like to support the request for this feature as well. I schedule membership interviews at my work, and these are usually not too formal - they take the form of 1:1 meetings, sometimes over coffee. Some of our interviewers are flexible with multiple slots throughout the week when they would be available, yet they have a cap on the number of interviews they are able to conduct within any given week. 

Calendly helps maintain flexibility for the interviewees to pick whatever time slot works for them, but without the weekly limit on number of bookings, an interviewer may end up with more bookings than they can handle in a given week. This then requires intervention on my part to cancel other slots in the week once that interviewer’s availability is depleted, or have to ask interviewees to rebook on another week.

These interventions defeat the purpose of relying on Calendly for its automation purposes. Hoping that we get this feature soon. Thanks for the follow-up’s and updates @Kelsi at Calendly 

New Community Member
February 21, 2024

Upvoting this request too! 
Currently, I’m sending out only a few Calendly invitations per day to avoid surpassing the total participant limit for my study (e.g., I require five participants for the study). This process is tedious as I continually monitor Calendly responses and send out the remaining small number of invitations every day (few invitations every single day until I reach 5 participants for my study then close it). 

Appreciate more solutions for this! Thank you. 

New Community Member
February 22, 2024

Upvoting this as well.

My use case: we agree with clients on a set number of interviews to conduct with their staff. I need to be able to generate a Calendly meeting that has a restriction of only 5 meetings to be booked for example. Thank you

New Community Member
February 22, 2024

Would really appreciate having this -- without it, it is hard to control my calendar once my link is out there with people.

New Community Member
February 27, 2024

Upvoting. @Kelsi at Calendly do users get any visibility into the product roadmap? Some teams make roadmaps and prioritization open. My concern is this seems to be a needed consumer feature that may get deprioritized relative to B2B features.

 

And frankly if it can’t be fixed I can’t use Calendly. Wondering if your integrations with Zapier or other automation tools can solve for this

New Community Member
February 27, 2024

I’d love to see this feature. I want to be able to have an availability on meeting type. EG 2 of a type of meeting a month. 

 

 

New Community Member
March 1, 2024

I agree with others on this thread, setting weekly limits for ALL Calendly events (rather than limits per type of event) under a specific user is desperately needed. I use Calendly with multiple event types and lengths, but overall I want to limit the number of TOTAL events across all types per week. This could be something in the form of “no more than X hours per week of events” or “no more than X amount of total events booked”.

 

Without this functionality Calendly fails to truly be a one-stop shop for calendar and meeting management. Working around this lack of functionality is nearly impossible and I may need to look for another tool if this isn’t resolved soon.

SchedulingSteve
Employee
Employee
March 5, 2024

Hey all, thank you for piling onto this thread with your use cases and the emphasis on weekly limits over others. The PM & UX team here at Calendly will be taking this into roadmap planning within the next few weeks. It’s clear from this thread and some other customer research that weekly is the most important time interval, and then daily.

  • Is there a need for custom hours and other time intervals?
  • What’s more important: a limit at the global level (apply to all event types) or a limit at a specific event type level?
Stephen, Calendly's CPO
Kelsi
CalPal Emeritus
March 5, 2024

Hey all, thank you for piling onto this thread with your use cases and the emphasis on weekly limits over others. The PM & UX team here at Calendly will be taking this into roadmap planning within the next few weeks. It’s clear from this thread and some other customer research that weekly is the most important time interval, and then daily.

  • Is there a need for custom hours and other time intervals?
  • What’s more important: a limit at the global level (apply to all event types) or a limit at a specific event type level?

@Yeong and others - just wanted to bring visibility to Steve’s post, here! =) 

Kelsi - Calendly Community