Prevent Calendly from scheduling meetings first thing in the morning

Hi ​@Rob67778,

This is a feature I’d love to see as well. No love for last-minute early morning meetings. Unfortunately though, there is currently no way to set conditional minimum notice. It’s either all or none. Given I’m in a similar situation myself (also EST), I’ve just defaulted to meetings needing to be scheduled a full 12-24 hours before. Not always perfect, but scrambling isn’t a great experience for me or my invitees.

The only other solution I could think of would be to have two different meeting links perhaps - one you share with your continental customers and another your share with your EMEA customers. Continental has a reasonable minimum notice (maybe like 3 hours) whereas the EMEA one has more hours (18 ensures no last minute scrambles)?

I’ll definitely pass the feedback along to our product team - and cross my fingers we see this soon!

Thanks Jillian - 

Creating 2 meeting links isn’t practical for my company, so can you share how you defaulted meetings to be scheduled “12-24 hours before”?

Is there a mechanism to keep me informed if this capability gets added to the roadmap?

Rob

Hi ​@Rob67778 - Events default to a 4 hour notice, but this can be changed to any time-frame you’d like. You can adjust this under your event settings here:
 

Maybe expanding the timeframe here can help prevent the last minute meetings as well.

​​​​​​We do have a Featured Tips + Tricks section on our community, this is where we post any product updates or changes. You can read more on this here: https://community.calendly.com/featured-tips-tricks-32

Let me know if you have any questions!

​@jillian and ​@David,

I am also interested in a feature like this. One thing that I might offer as another way to consider this for a simpler implementation. Rather than thinking about adding some complicated conditional minimum notice configuration interface/feature, could you possibly just unconditionally change the behavior to what I assume most people would want? The app already lets me set a range of business hours that I am ready to take a meeting. If I set that along with a minimum notice time I think it seems pretty reasonable that my declaration of “I would like N hours of notice” is just logically incompatible with how the current formula is calculated. If I start business hours and someone who was awake 3-4 hours before that time started they just get to skip giving me any notice? Can you just detect if the current time is outside of business hours and “snap” the start of the notice window to the opening of business hours for everyone’s calendars? I understand this would be a behavior change, but it seems preferable to have it just work that way for most people that know about these 2 settings.