Chalkedin

Questions from the bench

Do the people I invite need an account?

No. They open the link in your email or text message, see the time you have proposed and choose an answer. There is nothing to install, nothing to sign up for and no password to forget.

How is this different from sending a calendar invite?

A calendar invite writes itself into somebody else's diary before they have agreed to anything, which is why so many arrive flagged or quarantined. Chalkedin proposes a time instead, with nothing landing in anyone's calendar until they have said yes, and they can decline or put up a different time in the same click.

How is Chalkedin different from Calendly?

Calendly gives you a booking page where people come to it and book themselves into your open times. Chalkedin is for when you are the one asking. You propose one time in an email or text message from your own address or phone, and your client answers in one tap, with no page to browse and no account to make.

Can I send a meeting or appointment request by text message?

Yes. You choose email, text message or both in Settings. Chalkedin writes a short message from your SMS template, with the link in it and a count that shows whether it fits in one SMS. You copy it, or open it in the Messages app on your phone, and it is sent from your own number. Chalkedin does not send the text itself, so your client's mobile number is never stored.

Does it work for appointments, inspections and site visits, not only meetings?

Yes. Settings asks what you schedule: meetings, appointments, inspections, or a word of your own such as site visit. The menus, the pages your client sees, the emails and the text messages all use it.