Calendly

Scheduling meetings despite sounding straight-forward is one of the most crucial aspects of a business. Proper scheduling can ensure the smooth sailing of operations with no collision between events. Tope Awotona understood this better than anyone and invested his all to found Calendly which has grown as a platform to manage 20 million individuals and businesses.

“Meetings drive businesses forward, but figuring out how to encourage participation from everyone to get the best outcome from those meetings is tougher than some think,” says Awotona, founder and CEO of Calendly.

The Calendly vision is to take the work out of connecting with others so more can be accomplished. Its scheduling automation platform helps individuals, teams and organizations globally automate the meeting lifecycle by removing the back-and-forth with scheduling. The platform enables companies to close deals, hire top candidates, build strong relationships and grow their business — faster. It provides solutions for everyone, from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies.

Through its solutions, Calendly accelerates business growth and improves meeting outcomes across your organization to grow revenue, retain customers, hire talent and scale operations. It boosts team efficiency and empowers employees with user-friendly software that integrates into their workflows, enhancing productivity across all departments. The platform reduces security risk while maintaining regulatory compliance to protect the organization.

The Calendly apps provide scheduling automation via web browser extensions, or while on the go through mobile apps. It can also be integrated as a tool with the integration allowing Calendly to be used alongside other tools and services. The integration also syncs meeting information and scheduling data directly with other tools in the tech stack to eliminate additional work and automate it. If more enhanced customization is needed, the Calendly API can be used to do more or use the Workflows tool to optimize scheduling workflows.

Meetings drive businesses forward, but figuring out how to encourage participation from everyone to get the best outcome from those meetings is tougher than some think

When Ancestry.com experienced a surge in clients interested in researching their family history, the company realized that their existing processes were not equipped to handle the increasing demand. They faced logistical issues with the new customers and the existing processes for managing client handoffs between sales, account management and research teams, leading to inefficiencies and frustrations for both the company and its customers. They recognized the need for an integrated system to streamline the scheduling and client management processes and approached Calendly to simplify the scheduling of consultations for clients. This allowed clients to book appointments at their convenience while ensuring that the company’s teams remained coordinated. The impact was immediate and significant on the operations. The handoff time between sales and account management was reduced by 50 percent, the number of emails to clients was reduced by 40 percent and scheduling issues were virtually eliminated Allowing researchers to do their work more efficiently, and clients received their genealogy results at a faster pace and a better price.

Calendly is creating a world where people love meetings, with the trust of 100k companies and more than one hundred partner integrations across 230+ countries with monthly active users. An impressive figure but for Calendly, it’s just getting started.