Google Calendar's ‘Appointment Schedule’ Is Good, Not Great

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Google Calendar's ‘Appointment Schedule’ Is Good, Not Great
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We compare Google’s feature, which costs $10 a month, to Calendly’s free offering.

Does this mean you don’t need Calendly anymore? Let’s take a look.Google charges for its new appointment schedule feature. In a way, the Google Calendar user interface is being used as an advertisement: Click theGoogle via Justin Pot, which costs $10 a month and gives users with otherwise free Google accounts the appointment scheduling feature and a few other things, like longer calls on Google Meet and an email newsletter tool inside Gmail.

Calendly, meanwhile, offers a free version of its application, and subscriptions—which add support for at $8 a month.Let’s compare Google’s feature, which costs $10 a month, to Calendly’s free offering.can sync with Google, Microsoft 365, and iCloud calendars, preventing people from signing up for appointments when you’re busy.is limited to your current Google account, but you could add calendars from other services to that account.

Both services allow you to set a buffer between appointments and limit the number of appointments each day.Honestly, I had trouble finding anything Google’s paid offering does that Calendly’s free option does not.I’ve written about Google, in one way or another, since 2008 or so. I’m convinced the company makes a lot of decisions specifically to make my life, as a person who explains Google things, difficult. This is a prime example of this, so buckle up—things are about to get confusing.

The new feature I’m talking about here is called Appointment Schedule and is currently available only to Google Workspaceusers. Google Workspace, Google’s enterprise offering, which was once called G-Suite, does not have access to the feature, offering something called Appointment Slots instead.Confused? I was too.

Appointment Slots, the corporate offering, looks dated compared to Appointment Schedule. It’s also much less configurable—you can’t add custom question fields, for example, and there’s no way to automatically add a video call.Google Workspace Individual

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