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Hi,

 

Two feature requests with a theme

 

If I delete a calendly invite from Google Calendar it sees this and give me a cancellation notice.  if I try to move the event on Google Calendar to a different time it does not recognize this change.  The google calendar invite has a reschedule link but that limits me to the parameters of that meeting type.  I set certain office hours for clients, but occasionally I will schedule outside those hours.  Why not allow Calendly to just match the change from the calendar?

 

This is a general theme for me as 80% of my clients schedule themselves within those set hours, but when I schedule myself or reschedule someone, I should be able to easily override those hours and other parameters (like max # of meetings or buffer)  This is actually a HUGE hassle for me since I rely on text reminders, reconfirmation and payment workflows so if soneone wants to reschedule outside the parameters of that meeting type i have to manually go into the meeting type and make an exception to allow the scheduling.

 

This simple feature would change Calendendly from “much needed but often frustrating” to “100% satisfaction”

 

There are related theme that occur such as there is no way to push people to a particular slot (for example, my office hours are 8am to 5pm, but I’ rather there not be big gaps but right now it often ends up that I get meetings at 8, 10, 12 and 4 whereas I would prefer that they happen in a block.  I envision that when a person signs up it could say 8am is ideal for Gullu and if that person cannot meet that time then only then they get the other options which are ranked by my priority.  

 

In the old days when there was a list on the door you could tell people that they have to take the first available slot and not leave gaps. The teach version should not be worse that paper! :-)

 

Thanks!

 

-Gullu

Hey there Gullu!

Great suggestions and very much in-line with the themes we’ve been passing along to our Product peers here at Calendly.

I’ll send this post along too and hopefully we see some improvements on these soon.

On a similar note, can we have a “manual reschedule” option within Calendly such that the host can reschedule the meeting to any time they like regardless of the availability settings? E.g. someone booked a meeting with me on Calendly for X time. Then we had a text message conversation and agreed to reschedule to Y time, which is outside of my normal availability on Calendly but I want to make an exception for this meeting. There’s no simple way for me to reschedule this meeting.
 

​@jillian What’s the best workaround currently for what I want to do?

Hhi ​@cal-ai-user - In this case, I would recommend using the One-off event type to schedule meetings that lie outside of your normal availability. Currently, we don’t have a way to override options when rescheduling, but using the one-off event type allows you to create a meeting for any time, regardless of the availability or event settings.

I do think having a way to override availability when rescheduling is a great idea, so I’ve sent it off to our product team to look into.

Let me know if you have anymore questions!

Thanks ​@David ! The workaround I’m using is to cancel the original Calendly meeting and schedule a new meeting using Google Calendar (which is far easier than the workaround you’re suggesting of creating a new one-off meeting). But thanks for passing this request to the product team - I’d love to see this! 😊

I should have “super powers” for my own calendar. 

Sure, give me a warning, “hey are you sure you want to do this, you said you wanted Calendly to XYZ...” but man, I should NOT have to jump through hoops to move an appointment 30 minute earlier on my calendar when I can see it is open in Google calendar.  This is 2025!

My calendar should serve me, not the other way around!

Exactly what we came here to request! 

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