HubSpot Ideas

taylorfriss

Allow contacts/attendees to Cancel & Reschedule events using Meetings

Contacts are double booking without canceling their previous meeting! It would be great if they got a HubSpot confirmation email with a reschedule button on it, or if the Contact already has a meeting book, the Meetings page recognizes it and presents an option to reschedule or cancel old meeting. 

136 Kommentare
papuchon
Mitglied

Let's do this HubSpot, +1

MissTipsi
Stratege/Strategin

Wow, just realised in testing that this issue exists. I thought I was going to be able to ditch Calendly but this is a big problem, starting to realised that what looks great at first glance is actually a seriously weak link in HubSpot's sales features.

lnglkcpx
Teilnehmer/-in

Definitely need this!

mporras88
Mitglied

Any update on this?

rwparker
Mitglied

Surprised to see this feature not yet available.  It does show as "In Planning" so that gives me hope.  I can only imagine that many of my contacts will be frustrated to receive an email that does not allow them to:

 

1) Fully cancel meeting

2) Reschedule meeting

3) Add the meeting info to their iCal/Google Calendar

 

These are default features available on most other systems.

ShockinglyD
Teilnehmer/-in

Everyone, please continue to send your desire for this feature to Hubspot, especially to their social media channels.  This is how we got it into the planning stage.  They said that they priorize features based on customer demand.  Let's make this urgent for them!

papuchon
Mitglied

There is a very important point that Hubspot needs make sure to not overlook in development.

 

For rescheduling, you need to allow Hubspot users to pick a different external thank you redirect page than for the original meeting link.

 

If you don't do so, anyone tracking conversions with a pixel will see inflated conversion data every time a reschedule happens, as the leads will view the thank you page with the tracking more than once.

 

Please, please, please Hubspot do not get this wrong. It took already long enough to get the meeting module to redirect to an external page and track conversions properly, it would be too bad to ruin it already!

graceotaiza
Teilnehmer/-in

Hubspot this is so important! We switched over from calendly and have had non stop double bookings and no-shows that are messing up our google calendar. Please get this done for your loyal customers asap.

PurelyHRCait
Mitglied

This would be great and is a feature that Calendly offers. Especially with the required fields, re-booking is inconvenient for clients but also double books time on our calendars.

baiogi
Mitglied

Yes please HubSpot, add this. Is the only way to use meetings instead of Calendly. +1

finn
Stratege/Strategin

+1

thedigitalCPA
Mitglied

Any update here???  Looks like the last comment from HS was last April.  This is a minimum requirement as it is already on all competitor scheduling platforms.

lnglkcpx
Teilnehmer/-in

I agree - a status update would be great. 

@glencornell Any updates for us? This limitation makes the meetings feature cvery klunky...

Olivia_Englert
Teilnehmer/-in

Also need this!! Not sure why this wouldn't exist as part of meeting scheduling tool..

jawoff
Teilnehmer/-in

Jumping on the band-wagon here... with all this CoVid stuff going, everyone working remotely, virtual tours... this is a major need!

 

Update: Found this on another thread. Only caveat is you have to integrate with Google Calendar:

How to cancel (Google Calendar) meetings booked via HubSpot??

 

Go to your Google Calendar and delete each meeting. When it asks you to send notifications, answer 'yes'. This will both notify meeting attendees AND update their contact timeline in HubSpot. Each meeting will be deleted from the contact timeline (almost immediately).

 

Note: You'll only see this behavior if you've integrated your Google Calendar with HubSpot.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Help answer your question? If so, remember to accept this solution now.

 

Best,
Frank

Author the Perfect HubSpot Series

taxypants
Mitglied

In planning for almost a year now? Help us out! We recently switched to Hubspot from Acuity and the pain is real.  

aschraner
Mitwirkender/Mitwirkende | Diamond Partner

Please HubSpot, go ahead and implement! I have several clients who need this feature in order to avoid no-shows in meetings and save a lot of time by offering a reschedule link instead of having to email back and forth with customers.

 

The feature could look similar to how Calendly does it: links integrated in calendar invitations for "need to change this meeting?" and "need to cancel this meeting?".

finn
Stratege/Strategin

I am curious: does anyone here have experience with Calendly? It says it integrates with Hubspot, so maybe the solution is to switch(?) Any downsides to using Calendly together with Hubspot?

Olivia_Englert
Teilnehmer/-in

@finn We previously used both Calendly and Hubspot. Calendly was great and the integration worked just fine. The main reason for transition to only utilize Hubspot was because we were paying for a Hubspot service that essentially offered the same functionality as Calendly.

 

Calendly does have some pros compared to the Hubspot Scheduling:

1. Hubspot will limit the date range forward that a meeting can be scheduled. Calendly does not. If you have annual or quarterly meetings you want to set up with clients, Calendly supports this use case better than Hubspot does

2. The round robin meeting functionality in Calendly is a true round robin vs. the random agorithim that Hubspot completes. This is important because if you have a sales team that is being round robined in Hubspot, the meeting functionality will base it off of times available and random selection. This could cause issues if sales members are paid commissions and 1 sales person isn't getting as many meetings to be fair.

3. Calendly will allow you to have 1 link where customers can go to and then pick the type of meeting they want on the page. Ex: You provide 1 link to the customer. The customer can then select if they want a meeting specific to Coaching or a meeting specific to troubleshooting support. 

4. Reporting of meetings in calendly is not a great as the meeting reporting out of Hubspot. However, if you do the integration with Calendly and Hubspot you can pull similiar data in the hubspot reporting dashboard. 

 

There's other pros and cons so do your research. It just depends on the use case you are trying to support for your business. 

Status aktualisiert zu: Not Currently Planned
glencornell
HubSpot-Produktteam

Hi Communnity,

Thank you all for sharing your feedback!

For transparency I am updating this issue from "In Planning" to "Not Currently Planned" because we wont be able to get to this in the next quarter. This is one of the top ideas in Meetings and will be a top priority for Meetings in the future. I will update here once we are able to reprioritize this work for development.

 

Best,

Glen