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I'd like to allow invitees to choose meeting durations

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
November 18, 2023
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Hey all. I generally love Calendly, but one missing feature bugs me. For some meeting types, I want to allow invitees to choose the duration of the meeting, within some choices I specify, sort of like this:

Calendly support suggested this:

The problem is, I already have multiple event types (Client, Prospect, Student, Client including evenings and weekends, Student extended hours etc.) If I clone all these events to allow for 45 / 60 / 90 / 120 min meetings, I will end up with an unwieldy list of way too many event types. Then if you need to edit an event, you also need to remember to edit all the various duration instances of the same meetings. It’s wildly inefficient and unruly.

Is there any reason you could see why Calendly is not letting us specify these choices for SOME meeting types?

For Calendly employees reading this: Is this feature in the works? If not, why not?

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Pinned Reply By Sean Marlin

Hi @E28808 and everyone else that contributed to this thread!

Just circling back to this post to let you know that we have implemented this feature!! No more workarounds for invitees selecting from multiple durations. You can learn more about it here. I hope you know we directly referenced this post to make the case for prioritizing this feature. Your voice was heard and made a difference.

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CVK

New Community Member

Missing the basic and essential feature of being able to select meeting duration time is a total deal breaker for me. I just completely wasted my time setting up an account. The workarounds are completely moronic and so is missing the feature for selecting the meeting duration in a single field on the form. Such a simple thing to do. WHY is this missing it’s like an hours worth of work?

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RossMinor

New Community Member

Completely agree with the above. The absence of this feature is purely to push people to a paid plan. The above suggestions Kelsi gave were still for a paid plan lol. I would even pay for a lifetime subscription, but nope, all tech based companies are switching to software as a service, which I refuse to give into. People like me who aren’t willing to pay are probably still the minority, so I’m sure Calendly is making bank from enterprises who can afford the subscription with all the functionality.

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Richmond82627

New Community Member

I really need this feature too

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Peter

New Community Member

Any update on this feature?

Would be super helpful.

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Peter

New Community Member

Missing the basic and essential feature of being able to select meeting duration time is a total deal breaker for me. I just completely wasted my time setting up an account. The workarounds are completely moronic and so is missing the feature for selecting the meeting duration in a single field on the form. Such a simple thing to do. WHY is this missing it’s like an hours worth of work?

There must be deeper logic here because from an implementation perspective this should be trivial.

As an otherwise happy customer would love a direct fix or workaround.

Kelsi

CalPal Emeritus

@Richmond82627 and @Peter - thanks for adding your desire to see this feature to the topic! I will make sure that is included in our monthly feedback report and can promise that our product team has been made aware of this feature request - and how popular it is. We want your voices to be heard, and they are being heard!

Kelsi - Calendly Community