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E28808
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November 18, 2023

I'd like to allow invitees to choose meeting durations

  • 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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    jillian
    Community Member
    May 10, 2024

    Hi @juggernad,

    Appreciate the approach there! The downside to that approach is that it doesn’t actually change the event that’s booked unless you - the host - want to go in and manually update it. So in this example, your 15 minute meeting remains 15 minutes for both you and your invitee(s) until the event is changed on your native calendar.

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      Michele827
      New Community Member
      June 6, 2024

      I want to jump in on this one as well.  Having one invite for all would be ideal.  I can already offer multiple location options (zoom, face to face or let client decide) but nothing on the time.  

       

      I do not want this topic to fade before a solution (other than the routing) is available.  To be perfectly honest, already searching for another product that has this feature.  

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        Wesley81308
        New Community Member
        June 12, 2024

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          Tyrell
          New Community Member
          July 3, 2024

          Completely agree that this is needed. This will help so much for the sole traders with streamlining our booking processes without needed to upgrade to teams.

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            Adam64748
            New Community Member
            July 3, 2024

            +1!!

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              Nyasha
              New Community Member
              July 8, 2024

              +1 😄

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                Media55068
                New Community Member
                July 17, 2024

                Same request here! Such a basic need for a booking system, come on Calendly!

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                  AngieR110
                  New Community Member
                  July 27, 2024

                  I also could use this feature.  I keep having issues trying to keep a bunch of different event types updated correctly when I need to alter anything.  It’s very frustrating, and it makes it much harder to troubleshoot issues when they arise.  This should be a basic feature for a scheduling program, in my opinion.  Please get this added to Calendly.

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                    smb
                    New Community Member
                    August 19, 2024

                    Adding my voice to the mix, this feature is critical. If your backend doesn’t make it trivial to implement, then charitably: your backend needs refactoring =)

                    I’m hoping you have enough use cases to justify the spend on implementing this, but as an additional data-point, I use calendly across the coaching, consulting and personal paradigms, and variable scheduling is a necessity across all three.

                    Additionally, it’s worth noting that Google Calendar uses their position to promote Google Meet. Were I simply able to point people to my Calendly and have them schedule arbitrary time blocks (I do wish to be able to do this with certain contacts on my personal calendar), users would have less reliance on external calendaring solutions with their own integrations/ecosystem.

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                    tallbright
                    New Community Member
                    September 4, 2024

                    I also would like this feature! Chiming in in the hope this will bump this up on the new feature road map. 

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