zCal

No. Your friends and colleagues can respond to your scheduling links without signing up for a zcal account. However, signing up for a zcal account can make the scheduling process even faster. Registered users benefit from seeing calendar overlays on invites and polls, allowing them to see their calendar events on the scheduling page without having to switch tabs to check their calendar app.

Yes! zcal offers a Free Forever plan that is 100% free to use. Their team understands that the best internet services prioritize building great products ahead of making money. So we are laser focused on one goal - delivering the best user experience possible. As they grow they plan on adding premium plans with additional features to better serve their enterprise users. The features listed on the Free Forever plan will not be impacted by this change, and they are committed to making sure zcal continues to provide the best free scheduling service on the web.

Invite links can be reused to book multiple meetings. You do not need to create a separate invite for each meeting. The only time an invite link expires is if you set its date range to fixed start and end dates that have since elapsed. Polls are one-time use only. Once you select the final meeting time, an event is created and the poll can no longer be voted on.

Yes! You can connect to Zoom through the account integrations page and authorize Zoom to connect to your Zcal account. Once you've connected your Zcal account to Zoom you can configure your invites to automatically create Zoom links every time a new event is created.

Yes! Gmail and Microsoft Outlook are both supported so when you have multiple calendars and want to sync them all to have zcal read your availability across all of them for any conflict(s), there is a help article on their website to walk you through the process. Our recommendation, however, is to set up a separate meeting calendar that you can see from your personal calendar and sync only to this one separate event calendar. We find from experience that in general, syncing calendars can quickly become a cause for scheduling errors and missed meetings.