Calendar view in availability tab gone?

For whatever reason, they think this is improved, but they have users saying it is not. I’m extremely tech literate and work with a tech company. They removed the feature that I used the most. The new way of accessing day by day scheduling is not user-friendly. It’s visually unappealing. I really just want to see the calendar again and have the original view back. If anyone has suggestions on an alternative platform, please let me know.

I noticed the recent UI update removed the calendar view in the availability tab, which I was actively using. Could you please bring back the calendar view or provide an option to toggle it? It was a valuable tool for managing my availability more efficiently.

I agree, for someone who doesnt’ have consistent and predicatable availability, this feature was key. I am really disappointed. 

Will Calendly care about the many of us who did not ask for this change? 

Will Calendly listen to the number of us who have asked for it to be returned?

I work for myself and my hours are mine to determine. The main reason I went to calendly was because I could change a day and week a month anytime I wanted to. 

the annual price has been increased yet my wasted hour looking for something that was hidden behind other clicks will not be rewarded. I will cancel my subscription if there isn’t at least a community email letting users know we have been heard. 

Frustrated that it took me some time to find out that this was a change, and not a specific bug. The new workflow to achieve something that was much more straightforward is way too clunky. Looking into other services

The current workflow does not meet the needs of a schedule that changes weekly/monthly - please fix this. 

Adding my feedback to every relevant thread. Massive step backward in functionality. I have loved you all for so long; your product streamlined so much of my communication. This is inconvenient enough for me to look for alternatives. It’s easier for me to manually do this now. Please give us an option for a Calendar view!

Thank you for sharing! I work in the tech industry and understand the need for change. Everyone can be flexible. However, your product is Calendly- a booking calendar. In my role it’s extremely useful to see a full calendar view, times I’ve selected for meetings, etc., and not have to go through multiple steps just to add date specific times for meetings. Everything else you offer is fantastic, people just want a calendar view to select timeframes for meetings. Please share with your team that this really is a basic request to see a full calendar view, be able to select dates, add timeframes, and move on. All I can see is a list of meetings and yet, this is a product built off the premise of a calendar. 

If you look at Calendly’s side-by-side comparison of before and after Event Type Editor  it doesn’t feel new and improved. It feels clunky and inefficient. I need a calendar that shows date specific hours (with custom hours for date specific availability). I’ve been vocal about this for several weeks now and we still just get told that you’re all listening, but we really need a calendar view for these kinds of workflows. I don’t want to have to shift to a new product, but clearly can’t keep waiting for a change I don’t think will occur. 

It would have been ideal to run a survey with your customers prior to making a change that creates such challenges. Again, we all work through change, we can adjust to shifts. However, this is a functional change to a calendar- you removed any view of a calendar that many of us rely on. It’s now lists and unintuitive pathways to add date specific times and isn’t visually friendly. Prior to making changes, please consider more than the logistics. Please consider how people work visually, too. 

While this is helpful. Most of us have discovered this along our way. Again, many of us would like to see a constant visual of the calendar. Once I select dates and specific times, they show as a list. The calendar with time blocks is no longer visible, unless I go in to set times. It’s not that people can’t figure it out. I would like to see a calendar view that visually shows my time specific blocks the way Calendly used to. 

The example provide shows how to see the calendar view, but it must be done for EACH event which is very inconvenient when the preference is to update all the events for availability. We also would like to see what we previously selected by event. I have  8 different event types. If I miss updating one than I could have scheduling issues with my client. I will hang around for a bit to see if this is resolved, but Zoom just roled out Zoom schedule for only $5 per month and would allow me to only have to deal with one subscription so if something doesn’t change back soon. I will likely be cancelling my future subscription. I do like calendly, but the more convenient version!

I chatted with a representative online who tried to tell me that the new update was great. But it is absolutely limiting and it seems that Calendly didn’t factor in clients’ needs/uses before this change was made. We need more flexilibility, not less. Taking away the calendar was a bad move for me since I can no longer see the custom schedule I had built that factored in my seasonality (hours change drastically) as well as other things.

Adding my vote to bring the calendar view back. It was what set Calendly apart from the other scheduling software. Now Calendly is just like any other scheduling software (many are much cheaper). The new availability setting assumes people have the same schedule all the time. My availability changes every few months. The old availability setting (and the calendar view) made it so much easier to set my booking schedule. 

Adding my request to bring back the calendar view. I have too many events to change each and every one for each day.

I also paid for an annual subscription, but will be going to Acuity if this isn’t fixed within the next 60 days. No big deal for Calendly, as they already got my money. 

But karma...when you lose next year’s subscriptions from a large group of users.

Hi everyone! We’re excited to share that we updated the Availability section and…

📆 Your calendar view is back! 📆

Your feedback helped us prioritize bringing back this feature, and we hope restoring the calendar view helps you easily manage your availability moving forward. 

Thank you! 

I saw this when I last used Calendly. Thank you so much for putting the calendar view back. I really appreciate you listening to our feedback.

I echo all of the above. My team are so frustrated that I am now looking for another solution. They do on-boarding and each team Member manages two event calendars. Keeping their schedules current, yet fluid is such a challenge in the first place. I’ve been on the phone all morning; one team Member removed all his availability today he was so frustrated… not to mention the parties seeking a time slot frustration. Team members cannot update times using availability; they must open the event then click on calendar bar on right hand side (the toggle is gone). We have so many people in the queue for on-boarding I am desperate to resolve but will look for another platform..