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HI, we’re using Calendly to schedule user interviews. A typical thing one does when to recruit participants for a study is sampling. Say you want 10 interviews in total. Then you want 3 interviews with small customers, 3 with medium-sized customers, and 4 with big customers.

With the current functionality, if I send out the same scheduling link to each segment, it might happen that participants from one segment just completely book all available slots since they were the fastest.

To prevent that, I would need to set up three different event types. Since we’re recruiting in German and English, and since event types cannot be multi-lingual, I would need to set up 2 x 3 event types. That’s no sustainable.

What I’m looking for is a way to create segments within the same event type to generate unique invite links that I can send out to each segment. Simply to control how many bookings I get from each segment (= segment).

Does anyone know how to achieve that? Or if it’s not possible with Calendly, any other scheduling tool that can do that?

These two things (multi-language support and preventing over-bookings) are two major downsides for us when using Calendy.

Hi ​@lars, setting up six event types per round of interviews does sound unnecessarily tedious. The segmentations you are describing doesn’t exist in Calendly at this time but this is a good idea and I’ve marked this in our system. I’ll make sure our product team reviews this post when looking at updates. That said, we’d like to help you with a work around.