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Sam S
Employee
Sam S
Employee
January 19, 2024

Offering a Series or Package of Events

  • January 19, 2024
  • 15 replies
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Howdy Cal Pals! Quick question for you– Do you want to offer your invitees the option to book a series of events, or an event package where they pre-pay for multiple sessions?

While event types don’t natively support a series or package of events, I have a neat workaround you can use to accomplish your scheduling goals!

 

Problem: Event types in Calendly do not natively support a series or package of booked events.

 

Solution: Using the invitee redirect feature, you can “daisy-chain” event types together. Rather than seeing the Calendly confirmation page after booking, invitees will be automatically forwarded to the booking page of the next event in the series. 

You can collect payments on the initial event type, then redirect invitees to a secondary secret event type (without payment collection enabled) with instructions to schedule another meeting.

 

Who Can Use This?

Calendly’s redirect feature is available to users on our Standard, Teams, and Enterprise plans, as well as the legacy Professional plan. 

FYI: The Teams plan is available for both multi-user organizations as well as for individual use. To learn about the features in each plan, feel free to check out our pricing page!

 

Set Up Your Event Series

Because there are so many possible use-cases for this workaround, I’ve found that the best way for me to demonstrate this is through a quick video demonstration–

 

 

Step-By-Step Instructions

  1. Create an initial event type to send to your invitees, set to collect the full payment amount.
    1. For example, if you’re offering a 3 event package for $100, you will want to charge the full $100 in the initial event type.
       
  2. Create your desired amount of “secondary” event types, and set them as secret events. 
    1. For the example provided above, you would want to create 2 “secondary” event types. To save time setting these up, you can use the event cloning feature.
       
  3. In the initial event type’s settings page under “Booking page options”, set your confirmation page to “Redirect to an external site” and paste the link of the first secondary event type you wish to redirect your invitees to.
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Love this workaround? Have questions about other possible workarounds? Let us know in the comments below!

 

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    Rob Kind Moon
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    July 23, 2024

    I am curious if anyone else finds this solution cumbersome and a little confusing for more open-ended bookings?

    Do you think Calendly may ever offer something like “credits” or promo code options? Let’s say I am working with a client that wants to book a 12 session package, that they can then schedule their sessions as needed over time (both allowing continuous “free” bookings after the full payment for all 12 sessions AND capping those bookings once 12 has been reached). Could there ever be a pathway for something like that to be available or is there a pathway to apply this solution toward that?

    I feel like this must be a common need across many Calendly users who have offerings that work in such a model.

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      YanaYogaMadrid
      New Community Member
      September 17, 2024

      My Customers have the option of booking the whole month's sessions or one by one. Even if I will need to create as many calendars as sessions in the month, meaning big effort, but I can do it, how would I differentiate those booking the whole month or those booking one by one? If I create two different event types to offer both options, then, the spots available that they will see for one specific day is not adding up those who booked the whole month plus those booking one single class. But in reality I will have all of them in class.

       

      Is there a way to solve this?

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        ChloeLundyChoaching
        New Community Member
        February 11, 2025

        I am curious if anyone else finds this solution cumbersome and a little confusing for more open-ended bookings?

        Do you think Calendly may ever offer something like “credits” or promo code options? Let’s say I am working with a client that wants to book a 12 session package, that they can then schedule their sessions as needed over time (both allowing continuous “free” bookings after the full payment for all 12 sessions AND capping those bookings once 12 has been reached). Could there ever be a pathway for something like that to be available or is there a pathway to apply this solution toward that?

        I feel like this must be a common need across many Calendly users who have offerings that work in such a model.

        Did you ever get anywhere with this?

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          Rob Kind Moon
          New Community Member
          February 12, 2025

          I am curious if anyone else finds this solution cumbersome and a little confusing for more open-ended bookings?

          Do you think Calendly may ever offer something like “credits” or promo code options? Let’s say I am working with a client that wants to book a 12 session package, that they can then schedule their sessions as needed over time (both allowing continuous “free” bookings after the full payment for all 12 sessions AND capping those bookings once 12 has been reached). Could there ever be a pathway for something like that to be available or is there a pathway to apply this solution toward that?

          I feel like this must be a common need across many Calendly users who have offerings that work in such a model.

          Did you ever get anywhere with this?

          ​@ChloeLundyChoaching No direct solution has been offered. The only path is the “daisy-chain” events option presented above, which is not supportive for the need that I am asking about.

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            ChloeLundyChoaching
            New Community Member
            February 13, 2025

            I am curious if anyone else finds this solution cumbersome and a little confusing for more open-ended bookings?

            Do you think Calendly may ever offer something like “credits” or promo code options? Let’s say I am working with a client that wants to book a 12 session package, that they can then schedule their sessions as needed over time (both allowing continuous “free” bookings after the full payment for all 12 sessions AND capping those bookings once 12 has been reached). Could there ever be a pathway for something like that to be available or is there a pathway to apply this solution toward that?

            I feel like this must be a common need across many Calendly users who have offerings that work in such a model.

            Did you ever get anywhere with this?

            ​@ChloeLundyChoaching No direct solution has been offered. The only path is the “daisy-chain” events option presented above, which is not supportive for the need that I am asking about.

            Ahh that’s a shame! I’ve been looking into Acuity as an alternative option, it’s more expensive but seems much more flexible.

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