17 years helping Australian businesses
choose better software
About Calendly
Calendly helps individuals, teams, and organizations globally automate the meeting lifecycle by removing the scheduling back and forth.
Calendly comes with plenty of options to customize an online calendar portal and syncs with our local calendars. Also good customer service Fast & knowledgeable.
This makes it confusing for both myself and the person trying to schedule the meeting.
Filter reviews (3,761)
Usage
Sort by
Filter reviews (3,761)
Calendley my friend in the workplace
Comments: My experience with calendly was great. I was able to schedule different meetings. It automatically sinced and I didn't have conflicting schedules.
Pros:
I love using Calendly. It is so simply and easy to use. It's user friendly and not complicated to use. I love how you can use different applications like Google calendar; outlook, and zoom. You can sinc things automatically.
Cons:
Honestly I can't think of anything, I didn't like about using Calendly. This online tool is a game changer.
Alternatives Considered:
Calendly is a great booking system!
Comments: Calendly has been great to us! We have used it for several years and helps us simplify our booking page and send several reminders for people to get on calls!
Pros:
Calendly is simple and easy to set up! Integrates well with Hubspot and we use it daily.
Cons:
Calendly can be somewhat expensive depending on the package
Alternatives Considered:
Convenient but cumbersome and overused
Comments: Calendly allowed us to schedule meetings easily, but the excessive clicks and perception issues led us to prefer Outlook Booking.
Pros:
We found Calendly’s scheduling features intuitive and its integration with various calendars convenient.
Cons:
We felt Calendly required too many clicks and its popularity made users appear lazy.
Easy to use and more customer meetings scheduled
Comments: It made my day as business development manager easier and helped me to faster generate more meetings with potential customers. It was very easy for me to set up and my customers more often scheduled a meeting directly over my Calendly link, it saved both me and my customers time. Furthermore, it made it easier for my customers to choose a meeting time that suited them the best.
Pros:
I love that it's so easy to set up and use, always up to date with my calendar and it really helps me to quickly get more meetings with potential customers.
Cons:
That it was not integrated in our company internal system
Calendly Response
2 months ago
Hi there, we appreciate your positive review! It's great to hear that Calendly is solving scheduling problems for you by providing a scheduling link and an interface for others to easily book meetings with you.
Alternatives Considered:
Calendly: Great FREE Tool For Employers!
Comments: I use calendly to help facilitate screening calls for my employment business. It’s pretty easy to use and I can set aside how many slots I want that day, the times I’m on lunch and the days where I just can’t take calls. I use calendly to also set up zoom meetings as it has the function as well!
Pros:
I like that it’s a simple tool to use for the most part. You set up your availability and you are given a link. Once you get the link you’re able to hyper link it etc.
Cons:
I don’t really like that on the “free” version you only get 1 event. Granted the product is free for one event space but if you want more you have to pay. Its understandable but a bit underwhelming.
Calendly review
Comments: I felt it synced easily with other products such as my calendar, and was received well by the end user.
Pros:
I enjoyed being able to efficiently set appointments and the reminders setting. Compared to similar products, Calendly was most user friendly.
Cons:
Nothing in particular, this was the easiest product I have used for appointment setting.
My Calendly Usage
Comments: It is easy to use, professional and has good security, which simplifies my appointment booking process.
Pros:
It's user-friendly, easy to customise, and awesome for scheduling.
Cons:
The layout can be confusing sometimes. Though this isn't a major issue.
Organization for Appointments
Comments: Worked well with scheduling appointments personally and clients scheduling
Pros:
Ease of use, scheduling, and the communication when used
Cons:
Hard to understand and navigate at first.
User-friendly and intuitive
Comments: Overall I like how user-friendly Calendly is
Pros:
I like how intuitive it is to use Calendly
Cons:
I was hoping the free version would allow for more customization
Alternatives Considered:
Calendly Just Works
Pros:
The ease of allowing users to schedule a meeting on my calendar. It just works.
Cons:
The interface can get overwhelming with all of the options available. It isn't always super intuitive but it's not hard either.
Alternatives Considered:
Prepare to get time back!
Comments: I was able to get back likely a few hours a day and headaches while working as a recruiter. Now running my own company I am able to send this off to candidates and clients to book in time to speak with me.
Pros:
I absolutely love this product and have been using it for over 3 years. I introduced it at my last corporate workplace and switched all recruiters over to using this product instead of calling and booking in candidates for interviews - we simply sent over a link and they plugged time into our calendars! The functionality and emails you can send to the people using your link are also super helpful.
Cons:
They introduced a fee to pay, I always have stuck to the free version which has been great for me. I wish you were able to book in multiple time durations and not have it split up, also I wish that you could integrate it with more platforms such as Wordpress.
IT changed my business right from the start
Comments: I have used calendly extensively. I do not know how I would handle appointment setting without it. I have used many other tools and no one compares. calendly is very easy to use. and very powerful at the same time. It is one of the software subscriptions that I make my annual investment on, every year. and they never stop bringing new functionality. Calendly is a great tool for professionals!!!1
Pros:
The User Interface is really friendly, and that makes everything very easy to accomplish. Since the beginning, the power of calendly was very easy to use. I could do complicated scheduling setups without having to know all the ins and outs, screens, menus of calendly. I cannot say this of many software tools, to be honest.
Cons:
What I still do no understand why it is not allowed to be done is that sometimes I want to allow to be booked although I have other calendar items scheduled. I should be allowed by calendly to purposefully allow double booking on my calendar, given a set of rules.
Alternatives Considered:
Paid for itself 1000 times over
Comments: Calendly is like having a virtual assistant that costs me pennies per day, but helps me earn significantly more income because it allows me to skip wasting any time playing schedule tag with people. Now that I've realized how amazing it is, the fact that I ever got caught up in playing "schedule tag" with people seems mind boggling. I book everything from client calls, sales calls, podcasting recordings and even just networking conversations with people.
Pros:
Calendly is simple, clean, and a MASSIVE time saver. For what a few hours of a VA might cost, Calendly has paid for itself after the first few bookings. It's very easy for the client to use as well, it's not cluttered like some other scheduling software programs are, and having an APP is solid gold. I love being able to get real time notifications of appointments and cancellations and handle all of that from my phone when necessary. The ability to customize availability and create multiple availability calendars for different events is another brilliant asset. I can integrate with PayPal and take payments for appointment bookings, it's simply brilliant.
Cons:
Workflows are a useful tool, but still feel a little bit clunky. I like that they are there, but setting them up could be a little bit smoother. mind you, perhaps I'm comparing this to something like Zapier which is an incredible task management software.
Alternatives Considered:
The Perfect Scheduler for Busy Business Owners
Comments: Having a paid Calendly subscription has helped me to save time, and keep things more organized. It has saved so much time because I no longer have to type out lists of available times and dates only to have them already filled up by the time the client replies back. It gives my clients current real-time availability when they are ready to book. I also love that it allows me to build in my own desired reminder workflows and "thank you" follow-ups on events of my choosing. One of the other features that I value more than anything is by using the Chrome Calendly extension feature, I am able to pull "one-time use" scheduling links. This makes it so that once a client books from that link, it can not be used again. It has really helped me place boundaries on clients so they can't just schedule meetings with our Accounting Firm over and over again. We offer different levels of service, and if clients want more access to us we provide that but it comes with a different price point for their services. I did research other schedulers, and not many offer one time use link features.
Pros:
I think once you get acclimated with Calendly it is very easy to use. They make it so that you can manage your availability with easy, "mass apply" settings to different appointment types. I also really appreciate that you can have many different types of appointment types, we do different types of meetings and so we can set individual parameters with specific types of appointments. I think it is also valuable to be able to have both public and "hidden" appointments for your individual needs.
Cons:
I do feel they could develop more direct app integrations, rather than making apps go through a Zapier integration. I personally don't love using Zapier, but I do appreciate being able to integrate the software with things I commonly use.
Alternatives Considered:
I receommend Calendly any day of the week.
Comments: Calendly has been a staple of the Graphic Design and Logo company for many years and it will be for years to come. It's a friendly atmosphere that's easily manipulated to get what I need from it, and it's just easy and familiar to my clients - Which is awesome.
Pros:
Calendly is the absolute MOST user friendly scheduling software on the internet. You can set up an appointment scheduler in a very short time, it's very appealing to the eye, and it's super easy to use for the client as well.
Cons:
Honesly Calendly nails this software and is the leader in their field. I use calendly for my Graphic Design company and I use another software for my consulting firm. The consulting company's software is less user friendly, and more complicated, but it seems to have a ton of customization. Calendly doesn't seem to have this much customization, however, if you're just starting out and need ONE, TWO, or even THREE appointment types, Calendly is perfect.
Alternatives Considered:
Great product to save you the time of coordinating schedules with every client individually
Comments: I love Calendly. Overall it works well and consistently. It is easy to use for me, my staff, and our clients. I have no major complaints, it does exactly what we need it to do and it does it very well. I highly recommend it.
Pros:
I love that I can set up many types of events, give them titles that make sense to me, and color-code them. I also love that I can customize the questions clients will answer when scheduling, and customize the reminders they receive. I also love that I can hide events from my main page, so I can target who I send the link to schedule certain kind of appointments.
Cons:
Sometimes when there's a recurring event on my calendar that gets cancelled, my availability in Calendly will still show that time slot as busy. It doesn't happen often, but when it does I have to use a work-around and it takes more time to schedule something into that vacated spot.
Alternatives Considered:
Optimizing Business Schedules with Calendly: Insights from a Manager
Comments: Generally our involvement in Calendly was Positive. Our principal obstacle at first was dealing with different schedules across different undertakings. Nonetheless, coordinating these into a solitary, effectively shareable schedule through Calendly improved protection while keeping up with openness. It solidified our timetables, saving us the need to allow broad admittance to clients, and improved on our work process. The coordination with existing devices like Google Schedule was consistent. When associated, sharing across groups became easy, adding to a smoother change. Defeating the underlying anxiety of permitting direct reserving through Calendly worked on our efficiency.
Pros:
Calendly changed our booking disarray into consistent productivity. Its easy-to-understand arrangement, particularly during the free preliminary, quickly explained its convenience. Sharing booking joins across messages, site, and interchanges became easy, making gatherings a breeze for clients and partners.
Cons:
While without a cutoff booking highlight for every particular client email or past appointments block, it doesn't offer arrangement following in light of set numbers per client email, making it marginally prohibitive. In any case, its easy to use interface, despite the fact that having a slight expectation to learn and adapt for those new to schedule administrations, stays simple to explore.
Alternatives Considered:
Cannot imagine my work routine without Calendly!
Comments: One of the very few platforms that can be considered life-changing! Hope more and more professionals use Calendly to make scheduling meetings a cakewalk.
Pros:
Minimizes the hassle of setting up a conversation and has saved me a lot of time & mental bandwidth!Simple UI/UX, been using the tool for 4+ years now.Customizable workflows are a great value add.
Cons:
The pricing plans are not enticing enough to upgrade. Limited analytics offered (click-through rates, meeting frequency, day-to-day time spent, etc. can be shared with the user)
Alternatives Considered:
Calendly is a MUST
Comments: It's been an amazing tool to use and extremely crucial for my organization. My experience has been nothing but fantastic and it is the main product that I talked with young entrepreneurs that want to get started.
Pros:
I love how easy it is to use and set my Calendly. I've used the free plan for a little bit but it didn't take long until I made the change for the actual plan. Every single one of my services starts with Calendly. I use it daily to manage my schedule and book online clients. It has been a blessing thus far!
Cons:
Sometimes, there are schedule bugs with my google calendar. For instance, it says that I am full or unavailable but I actually am so sometimes I can loose some time discussing with clients about my schedule when Calendly is suppose to take care of that!
Alternatives Considered:
BEST scheduling software out there
Comments: Amazing product. I love all of Calendly's features. Just wish the price was more reasonable, but there are ways around that.
Pros:
Calendly may lack a lot of features on the free version, but it still packs quite a punch. Easy to use, very user friendly, can check conflicts in multiple calendars, there is almost no downside to Calendly, other than price.
Cons:
Software costs way more than it's worth. Instead, I make a free account for every interview type that I need to book. This helps me use all of the features without needing to pay exorbitant fees. Their customer service is also pretty bad. They say on their website you can contact them for pricing if you are a non-profit, however they've ignored my every attempt to contact them, so don't count on that. Instead you should make a free account for every interview type, this way you get to use all the features without needing to pay.
I'm in control of my appointment with Calendly
Comments: It allows me to keep in control of my appointment and saved us a lot of time.
Pros:
I like how Calendly integrates to icloud. Its simple interface and easy-to-create events features makes it a must-have app for all your appointments (also great for paid consultation/lessons as you can collect money from the app (paid version only)). It is easy to create an event type (one-on-one or group), and there lots of options available : event duration date range, even time zone. I like how easy it is to apply an appointment to dates / intervals / specific recurring days and how you can implement buffers (before and after events) You can ask invitees questions before the appointment, which is nice to have, since it allows you to save time once your client is online. I immensely appreciate how Calendly offers all types of notification options (email reminders, follow-up and text reminders.) When creating an event, you can choose what type of location you want (in-person, phone call, google meet, zoom.) You don't have to get in touch with your invitee to tell them how you want to meet them. You can add Calendly to your website (even the free version) through a small widget, which makes it easy for your clients to get in touch.
Cons:
Most integrations are only available on paid plans, and the free version is very limited but the company also needs to make money, so that's very understandable.
Best Scheduling Tool
Comments: An important aspect of my job as a Business Analyst is discussing and participating in my organization's business. Calendly is a great tool for streamlining my daily schedule without having to make multiple phone calls to schedule tedious and time-consuming meetings with stakeholders. Calendly puts my appointments into semi-automatic pilot mode. This simplifies the scheduling process and frees up valuable time to focus on more important tasks.
Pros:
I am able to connect Calendly to various software resulting in a diverse range of applications. Appointment booking with a simple email. I love the user friendly interface, it is easy to use.
Cons:
Having used Calendly for the past year, there honestly isn't anything I don't like about it. Their enhancements are super consistent and it has definitely served its purpose.
Alternatives Considered:
Calendy is highly customisable and most common booking system
Comments: Calendly is a powerful appointment booking that integrates natively into Google Calendar and other CRM platform like Hubspot.
Pros:
We like the roundrobin feature with priority labeling per assigned staff. Native integration to Google calendar and google meet. Customisable notification reminder. Buffer setup and appointment groupings.
Cons:
There's no limit booking feature per specific client email or block email that has previously been booked. There's no Appointment tracking to limit based on the number set per client email. Quite expensive to order seat per staff.
Alternatives Considered:
Useful, easy to use, modern
Comments: Great experience, I use it on a daily basis and it feels great, the cons are just small details, mostly trivial.
Pros:
Great interface: Calendly feels modern and intuitive, it is extremely easy to find what you are looking for and accomplish the tasks you need.Feels modern: The whole experience in Calendly feels fresh and modern, while this might not be important to some people, when you use something on a daily basis it definitely feels good.Easy to manage: Managing multiple calendars and team members is easy, you have all the options at hand and you can make changes, creates new calendars, add team members in few clicks.Automations: The automation options are great, although they could be better. For a basic user
Cons:
Would be great to have some extra Zaps to be used in Zapier, right now the existing options are limiting to a point where you need to integrate other tools to be able to accomplish certain workflows.After creating a calendar and defining the type, you can't really change it, instead you have to create a brand new calendar from scratch, quite annoying to figure this out after you have created and configured everything.
Calendly: Convenient, integrated, customizable
Comments: Overall, it's a benefit to my business. Easy, efficient scheduling, the link is on my website and in my email. I can manage my calendar and availability without blocking out my Outlook calendar, and I can avoid the "when are you available" conversation which is a drag. I will continue to use Calendly for the foreseeable future.
Pros:
I have been able to fully customize my appointment scheduling, from the times that I'm available to take appointments, to the types of appointments and when, to how far out meetings can be scheduled, location, etc. Providing specific instructions to attendees depending on the type of meeting they select, asking questions to give me more information before the call, and so forth. Also, it is an efficiency booster because I can avoid the "when are you available" conversation completely and because of the email reminders, I have fewer instances of no-shows.
Cons:
I do believe that it's a bit expensive for the service it provides. There are also a lot of features that I don't use, because I don't know how to or the value of them. Calendly could do a better job engaging and educating it's users to use the full functionality (and maybe make the price a better value for the service).