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0 pointstoomuchtodo3y ago0 comments

Genuinely curious question: So why doesn’t Google or MS offer a built in Calendly functionality? Think of how your calendar auto populates with Zoom details if you schedule a Zoom meeting in Outlook. Simply because they consider it a market not with competing in vs a product feature? This has to have had come up in a product discussion somewhere in these orgs.

Edit: someone mentioned in thread that Gsuite supports this natively now, so I suppose my question is more MS focused.

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JoBrad3y ago

MS has a few similar tools.

MS Bookings is pretty similar, but last I checked was more work to setup for an individual than Calendly.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/sched...

Their mobile app has a Send Availability function, which I can’t find in the desktop apps at all.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-send-my-...

And there’s also the ability to insert your calendar into an email from the desktop app. This is more coarse grained than the mobile app feature, and it basically sticks a table with your availability for some time period in an email.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/send-an-outlook-c...

I use Calendly

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