Hi!
Is it possible to use calendly to rent conference rooms? The main issue i have is that customers can’t choose the duration of their bookings. I have to setup events for 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours etc.
Is there a way to bypass that?
Thx!
Hi!
Is it possible to use calendly to rent conference rooms? The main issue i have is that customers can’t choose the duration of their bookings. I have to setup events for 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours etc.
Is there a way to bypass that?
Thx!
Hey there
Right now there is no way to allow invitees to choose the duration of a booking. This is because the duration is “locked in” within the event type’s setting, just like with other settings such as:
This also means that the workaround you have already discovered (setting up a separate event type for each duration) is the best workaround there is, to date. That said, there are some ways to make the invitee booking experience more seamless that you might be interested in! 🙂 Let’s go over those.
Using Calendly Routing Forms, you can set it up so that invitees answer a question or two and are then automatically routed to the correct event type (hereafter referred to as “ET”). Routing forms let you request information such as industry, company size, specific interests, etc. from website visitors and automatically direct them to a specific scheduling or web page based on their responses. It's great for screening and qualifying sales leads on a website or matching clients or students to the booking page of the right subject-matter expert based on their interests, program, or other criteria. You can read more about setting up routing forms, here!
🏷 Important Note: in order for your conference rooms to be booked simultaneously, you will have to set them each up under an additional host (a different email address) within a Team Page. You will not be able to have multiple ETs booked in an overlapping way under your solo-user account. I am telling you this in case you hadn’t discovered it, yet. Once you have a Team Page set up, you can use a Collective Event Type (on the Standard plan) or a Round Robin Event Type (on the Standard or Teams plan) as a one-on-one event type for each conference room on the Team Page (read more here about using these ETs as one-on-one events on Team Pages).
You’d need to be on our Standard or Teams Plan to set up a Team Page, add additional users (one user/host for each event type/conference room) and then set them all up to take place at the same time. You can read more about our plans, pricing and features on our Pricing Page! Note: an annual subscription will result in a 20% discount for all paid plans!
I hope this helps!
p.s. check out our Getting Started Guide for more tips + tricks as you learn the Calendly ropes! ✨
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