Calendly is a cloud-based service for organizing and scheduling video meetings and calls. Calendly provides an interface for organizations to create meetings, set rules for them, and maintain a calendar with call dates. Calendly is suitable for the individual user as well as for companies, sales and marketing teams, and executives. The service is available as a browser-based version and a mobile app.

Calendly helps users organize meetings and create a calendar with events. While creating meetings, users are invited to set rules. They describe the terms of the meeting, its duration, where the meeting will take place (Zoom, phone call, in-person meeting, etc.), its description and other parameters. Once the meeting is created, a link to it is sent to the guests, they select the meeting time, and it is automatically entered into the user’s calendar. To give the user a clear understanding of their workload, they can synchronize their Microsoft or Google calendars with Calendly. A notification is sent to users before meetings

Teamwork in Calendly helps customer-facing departments to see overall team schedules, view individual employees’ workloads. Also with Calendly, teams can standardize meetings for different types of calls by creating templates for them. Through integrations with third-party cloud services, teams can push meeting and client information to CRM systems, accept payments, and more.

Calendly features

  • Create meeting invitations;
  • Maintain schedules;
  • Create separate projects for teams;
  • Customize meeting conditions;
  • Automatic notifications;
  • Integration with calendars;
  • Access Management;
  • Automatically create meetings in Zoom;
  • View team statistics;
  • Customizable branding;
  • Integration with third-party services.

Interesting facts

  • Calendly was founded in 2013 by Toye Omofama in Atlanta, USA;
  • The idea for Calendly came to Omofama after a series of frustrating attempts to coordinate meetings via email;
  • Calendly supports integration with Google Calendars, Office 365 and Outlook, as well as apps such as Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics and more;
  • Calendly can automatically account for time zones and apply availability settings to avoid double booking or scheduling appointments outside of normal business hours;
  • In January 2021, Calendly was valued at $3 billion after a Series B funding of $350 million;
  • An office-less company: since its inception, Calendly has operated as a fully remote team;
  • As of early 2021, more than 10 million people a month were using Calendly, and many of them were at large companies like Zoom and Twilio.
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