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Assistant.to vs Calendly: What are the differences?

What is Assistant.to? Quick and easy way to schedule meetings in gmail without the back & forth. Assistant.to (fmr. Betty) - Your Personal Scheduling Assistant. Schedule all within email with no back & forth.

What is Calendly? Simple, beautiful scheduling. Say goodbye to phone and email tag for finding the perfect meeting time. Spend 1 minute telling Calendly your availability preferences. Share your personal Calendly page with clients, colleagues, students, etc. Invitees visit your Calendly page to pick an acceptable time, and event is added to your calendar.

Assistant.to and Calendly can be categorized as "Meeting Scheduling" tools.

Some of the features offered by Assistant.to are:

  • No double bookings
  • Remembers your most common meeting locations
  • Easy time zones

On the other hand, Calendly provides the following key features:

  • Save time - Say goodbye to email and phone tag. Get more done with time saved.
  • Sell more - More high quality client interactions in less time = $$$
  • Improve service - Make it super easy for customers to connect with you.
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I'm looking for a solution to help me do calendar management in my system (something like Calendar as a Service).

Some of the features that I would need are:

  1. Ability to create a calendar for every user in my system.
  2. Allow everyone to set their availability and Off Days. They should also be able to change the availability for a specific day.
  3. Ability for the system to book a timeslot on any of the user's calendars.
  4. Ability to check conflicts before booking a slot.
  5. Ability to get notified via Webhooks whenever someone cancels the already booked slots.

I don't need a UI. I can use any readily available Calendar UI Component. All I need is a service that can provide APIs to manage multiple calendars (one of each user in my system).

I've explored Calendly, but it requires every user within my system to have an account on Calendly as well. So it's not going to work for me.

Currently, I'm exploring Calendso, but I would appreciate it if you could share any other services you are familiar with that I should explore for this use case.

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Jakob Thusgaard
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Good questions, Sarang. Personally, I think your requirements raise more questions. First of all, you've already mentioned that Calendly won't work for you, so I'll not dive further into Calendly for you.

Calendso has rebranded to cal.com and I'm looking into what that service does exactly.

I have a longer list of tools at https://yoursales.com/sales-stack-2021#scheduling with more detailed comparison at https://tech.yoursales.com/scheduling .

Your requirements: Ability to create a calendar for every user in my system: most calendar tools should be able to do that.

Allow everyone to set their availability and Off Days. They should also be able to change the availability for a specific day: This seems quite possible as well with most calendar systems.

Ability for the system to book a timeslot on any of the user's calendars: You mean, in random fashion, like round-robin or as the person scheduling decides???

Ability to check conflicts before booking a slot:: This seems quite possible as well.

Ability to get notified via Webhooks whenever someone cancels the already booked slots: This seems quite possible as well.

For your setup you need a few components. At minimum you need a calendar and a scheduler. Typically those to are separate.

Calendaring would be done by Google Calendar, some sort of Microsoft product, or a CalDav compatible calendar system.

The scheduling system is separate and connects to either of the calendaring systems mentioned above. The tools you mentioned in your original post are scheduling systems, which leaves another question: which calendar system would you like to use?

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    What is Assistant.to?

    Assistant.to (fmr. Betty) - Your Personal Scheduling Assistant. Schedule all within email with no back & forth.

    What is Calendly?

    Spend 1 minute telling Calendly your availability preferences. Share your personal Calendly page with clients, colleagues, students, etc. Invitees visit your Calendly page to pick an acceptable time, and event is added to your calendar.

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        What are some alternatives to Assistant.to and Calendly?
        Doodle
        Doodle takes the pain out of finding the right date and time for a group of people to meet and makes scheduling virtually effortless. More than 20M people use Doodle every month around the globe for private and business meetings.
        Schedule
        It helps schedule online appointments for businesses. The inbuilt AI integration feature handles automated replies for very quick appointment scheduling.
        Acuity Scheduling
        It is easy-to-use and user friendly scheduling solution using which clients can quickly view real-time availability, and book their appointments accordingly. It allows sending customized and branded reminders, confirmations and follow-ups for a more personalized customer experience.
        Cal.com
        It is a white-label by design. API-driven and ready to be deployed on your own domain. You are in control of your events and data.
        ScheduleOnce
        A powerful and easy-to-use appointment scheduler that works in tandem with personal calendars and supports businesses in a wide range of scheduling scenarios.
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