Calendly Review – after 3 years of paid subscription

Top two concerns with Calendly events – my review after 3 years of use.

Concern 1 – Mostly no show registrations

There isn’t a way to filter out real versus fake registrations. Calendly support assured me that they have several backend features that filter out spam registrations. My experience has been just the opposite.

Concern 2 – Mostly junk email addresses

Without a business email validation option, your calendly link will get several junk email registrations.
This seems to be a huge (and easily fixable) gap in their product. Simply check for a corporate email (disallow junk or public email addresses).

The sever  incovenience caused by evaluating a new event registration only to discover a spam email – then to cancel that registration – a few times a week, all adds up. In effect, the PAID version of calendly is large a huge spam intake engine for publicly hosted events.

Unsupportive Product Team and Support Teams

You would think this feature would be on the top of their list. It is not. And they do not seem to have any intent to provide this.

After getting an email out to support (another fairly involved process), after almost 3 weeks, I heard back to the effect that ‘Sorry for the inconvenience..but we do not have this feature’.

Summary

Calendly event registrations are primarily junk or non corporate users. You will spend time and energy trying to get on a call – only to realize that it is a non-show or the email provided was garbage to begin with.