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Calendly

Is it worth it to pay for Calendly, or can Microsoft Bookings meet your needs at no extra cost? Compare Microsoft Bookings and Calendly, and decide which is best for you.

Microsoft Bookings vs Calendly: Which is best?

I've used Calendly for years, and recently tested Microsoft Bookings to compare the two products head-to-head. In this article, I'll help you sort out which option makes sense for you.

Microsoft Bookings vs Calendly: Which is the best meeting scheduler?

After an invitee schedules a meeting, you often want to add or update a contact in different apps to easily stay in touch with them. With a little help from this Zapier integration, you can automatically send new Calendly invitees right over to ActiveCampaign without having to do any manual work yourself. 

Calendly is an elegant and simple scheduling tool for businesses that eliminates email back and forth. It helps save time so that businesses can provide great service and increase sales.

Triggers when an invitee cancels a scheduled event.

Invitee Canceled

Triggers when an invitee schedules an event

Invitee Created

Triggers when an invitee is marked as a no-show.

Invitee No Show Created

Find User

Creates a new one-off meeting in Calendly.

Create One-Off Meeting

ActiveCampaign is a customer experience automation (CXA) platform that helps businesses meaningfully engage customers. Access pre-built automations that combine transactional email and email marketing, marketing automation, ecommerce marketing, and CRM for powerful segmentation and personalization across social, email, messaging, chat, and text.

ActiveCampaign

Triggers when a Custom Object record is created or updated.

New or Updated Custom Object Record

Triggers when a custom object record is deleted in ActiveCampaign

Custom Object Record Deleted

Triggers when a deal task has been completed.

Deal Task Completed

Triggers when a new account is added or an existing account's details are updated.

New or Updated Account

Triggers when an automation sends out webhook data. To add a webhook in ActiveCampaign, navigate to your Automations section, add or edit an automation, and create a new "Webhook" action.

New Automation Webhook

Triggers when a contact email address bounces from a sent campaign.

New Campaign Bounce

Triggers when a contact clicks a link in a campaign message (will only run once for each unique link).

New Campaign Link Click

Triggers when a contact opens a campaign (will trigger once per contact per campaign).

New Campaign Open

Triggers when a new campaign starts sending.

New Campaign Starts Sending

Triggers when a contact unsubscribes as a result of a campaign email sent to them.

New Campaign Unsubscribe

Triggers when a new contact note is added.

New Contact Note

Triggers when a new contact task is created.

New Contact Task

Triggers when a new deal note is created.

New Deal Note

Triggers when a new deal task is created.

New Deal Task

Triggers when a new deal is created or existing deal is updated.

New Deal Added or Updated

New Contact

Triggers when a new contact is added to a list.

New Contact Added to List

Triggers when an existing contact details are updated.

Updated Contact

Triggers when a new contact is added or existing contact's details are updated.

New or Updated Contact

Triggers when a a Tag is added or removed from a Contact

Tag Added or Removed From Contact

Find Account

Finds a contact by email address, ID, or phone.

Find Contact

Find Contact Task

Finds an existing deal by title or email.

Find Deal

Looks for a Deal and if found, returns the User that owns the Deal

Find Deal Owner

Find Deal Task

Create Account

Update Account

Creates a new account or updates an existing account.

Create or Update Account

Creates a new contact, or updates an existing contact.

Create or Update Contact

Create Deal (Deprecated)

Adds an existing contact into any automation.

Add Existing Contact to Automation

The contact will be removed from this active automation

Remove Contact From Automation

Create Campaign

Adds a contact to an ActiveCampaign account

Add Contact to Account

Add Contact Note

Add/Remove Tag From Contact

Create or Update Contact Task

Creates a new custom object record or update an existing record

Create or Update a Custom Object Record

With a deal ID and a contact ID set the corresponding contact as a secondary on the deal. Optionally set the role. If the Deal has no Primary contact set, this contact will be set as Primary if you DO NOT select a role.

Add Secondary Contact to Deal

Create Deal

Add Note to Deal

Create or Update Deal Task

Update Deal

Subscribes a Contact to a List it is not currently associated with, or Unsubscribes a Contact from a list is currently associated with.

Subscribe or Unsubscribe Contact From List

Creates a custom website or application event.

Create Tracked Event

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Add or update ActiveCampaign contacts for new Calendly invitees

Once you've captured your leads' interest by having them book a meeting with you, make sure you track them accordingly by setting up this Zap to identify them easily. It will trigger automatically whenever someone creates a new event on Calendly, subscribing them to a tag on ConverKit so you can always spot them.

Kit is an email marketing platform for professional bloggers. Easily create email sequences, tag subscribers, grow your list, and automate your email marketing.

Triggers when a subscription occurs on a specific form.

New Form Subscriber

Triggers when a new purchase is added to your account.

New Purchase

Triggers when a subscriber is added to a sequence.

New Sequence Subscriber

Triggers when a new subscriber is confirmed within your account (has completed any applicable double opt-ins).

New Subscriber

Triggers when a specific tag is added to a subscriber.

New Tag Subscriber

Triggers when a specific tag is removed from a subscriber.

Tag Removed From Subscriber

Triggers when a subscriber unsubscribes from your emails.

New Unsubscribe

Finds an existing confirmed subscriber by email.

Find Subscriber

Add Subscriber to Form

Adds a purchase to a subscriber, or updates an existing purchase.

Create or Update Purchase

Add Subscriber to Sequence

Add Tag to Subscriber

Remove a specific tag from a subscriber if they have it.

Remove Tag From Subscriber

Add tagged subscribers to ConverKit from new Calendly events

Activate this Zap to create an effortless, hands-free integration of your calendar events. Once set up, this integration automatically adds a detailed event in Google Calendar from each new event created in your  Microsoft Office 365 calendar.

Microsoft Office 365 Business is a complete office suite in the cloud. It provides all the standard office products like Excel, Outlook, Word, SharePoint and more, but available from any internet enabled computer!

Zapier does not currently support Outlook.com addresses or Home 365 accounts, only business or Enterprise.

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Triggers at a specified time before an event in your calendar starts.

Calendar Event Start

New Attachment

Triggers when a new event is created in your calendar.

New Calendar Event

Triggers when a new contact is added to your account

Triggers when a new e-mail is received in your inbox.

New Email

Triggers when a new e-mail is received in your inbox that matches a search.

New Email Matching Search

New Flagged Email

Triggers when a new new message in folder is created.

New Message in Folder

Updated Calendar Event

Find Calendar Event

Find a Contact

Find or Create Contact

Create an event in the calendar of your choice.

Create Event

Create Contact

Creates a draft of an email that can then be reviewed and sent out.

Create Draft Email

Delete Event

Send an email from your Office 365 account.

Send Email

Update Contact

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with co-workers and friends. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

Google Calendar

New Calendar

Triggers when an event is cancelled or deleted.

Event Cancelled

Event Ended

Triggers when a specified amount of time before an event starts.

Event Start

Triggers when an event is created or updated (except when it's cancelled).

New or Updated Event

New Event

Triggers when an event is created that matches a search.

New Event Matching Search

Find Event

Finds a specific event by its ID in your calendar.

Retrieve Event by ID

Finds multiple events in your calendar as line items.

Find Multiple Events

Find or Create Event

Invites one or more person to an existing event.

Add Attendee(s) to Event

Create Calendar

Create Detailed Event

Create an event from a piece of text. Google parses the text for date, time, and description info.

Quick Add Event

Updates an event. Only filled fields are updated.

Update Event

Create detailed Google Calendar events from new events in Microsoft Office 365

Looking to follow up on your meeting requests with something a little more personal than a confirmation email, but don't have the time? We'll make it for you if you set up this Zap. From then on, whenever someone books with you on Calendly, we'll automatically send them an email from Office 365, including any message you like. This Zap can also be used to notify others of the upcoming event.

Microsoft Bookings vs Calendly: Which is the best meeting scheduler?

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