Getting started

An event type is one kind of meeting you offer — a 30-minute intro call, say. It has its own booking page and its own link. Creating one and sharing its link is the whole of getting started.

When you sign up

Creating a workspace asks for three things: a workspace name, a workspace address (the subdomain your booking links sit on) and your email address. There is no card field on the form, and the Free plan has no time limit — you move to Pro when you add a second person or want a Pro feature, not when a trial runs out. See Pricing for what each plan includes.

Your workspace also picks up your timezone from your browser as you sign up, and every new workspace starts on a seeded Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm week read in that zone. If your browser reports a zone this runtime does not recognise, or reports none at all, the workspace falls back to UTC. Either way the first item on the dashboard checklist is confirming those hours, and it names the zone you are on so you can see which one you got. Change both under Availability — see Availability.

Create your first event type

In the dashboard sidebar, under Scheduling, open Event Types.
Click + New Event Type. If you have none yet, the empty state offers Create Your First Event Type instead — same form.
Fill in Event Name (for example, “30 Minute Meeting”). The URL Slug fills itself in from the name; you can edit it, and it accepts lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens.
Pick a Duration (minutes). Type any length in whole 5-minute steps, from 5 minutes to 480 minutes (8 hours) — a 20-minute cut and a 65-minute colour are both valid. Six common lengths (15, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 minutes) sit under the box as one-tap buttons, and a number off the 5-minute step is refused with a note saying so.
Optionally add a Description and a Cover Image (up to 2 MB), both of which appear on the booking page.
Click Create Event Type.

The Free plan allows three active event types at a time. Drafts do not count, because they cannot be booked. If all three are already in use when you create a fourth, it is still created — you do not lose the work — but it arrives switched off, and the editor tells you so. Switch another one off to make room, or upgrade under Billing.

Share your link

Your booking link looks like this:

https://your-workspace.calemander.com/your-name/30-minute-meeting

On the Event Types page, each event has a Copy link button that puts exactly that URL on your clipboard, and a View Page link that opens the booking page in a new tab so you can see what invitees see. The same link is in the editor under Share & Embed → Direct booking link.

A page that lists everything you offer

If you would rather share one link than several, open Intro Page in the dashboard. It publishes a page at /u/your-name listing your active event types — unlisted ones stay off it, as they do on your booking page — with your bio, profile image, social links and a theme. You can reorder the events with the Move up and Move down buttons, and the Page Active toggle turns the page on and off without losing any of that.

Which link to share

There are four public shapes, all on your workspace host (and on your custom booking domain, if you have set one up, at the same paths):

/your-name/30-minute-meeting — one service. The link to send when you want somebody booking a specific thing.
/u/your-name — your Intro Page, above. If you have not switched one on, this address sends the visitor to /menu rather than showing them an error.
/menu — the whole workspace's menu: every member's active, listed event types, grouped by host, with round-robin and collective services lifted to the top under Any available. It needs no setting turned on and takes no parameters. Prepaid packs are not on it; they are on /packages and on each Intro Page.
/embed/menu and /embed/your-name — the same two menus built for an iframe: no site header or footer, a transparent background, automatic height reporting to the page around them, and ?theme=, ?color= and ?hideBranding=1. See Embedding your booking page.

Unlisted and deactivated event types stay off every one of these, and none of them asks the visitor to sign in.

Adjust the event type

Click Edit on any event type to open the editor. The settings you will reach for first are grouped at the top — Basics, Location and Scheduling — and a More options button reveals the rest.

Location — where the meeting happens. See Conferencing for the full list of options and what each one does.
Scheduling — buffers, minimum notice and slot interval. See Availability.
Basics → Offer multiple durations lets bookers choose from a comma-separated list of lengths (up to six; the default duration is always offered, whether or not you list it).
Questions — add your own booking form fields. Short text, long text, email, phone, yes/no, dropdown, radio buttons and checkboxes are available, and a question can be shown conditionally based on the answer to an earlier one. A short text question can also carry suggested answers — one-tap buttons under the box for the answers you expect, with anything else still typeable.
Visibility — Active controls whether the event can be booked at all, and is what the Free plan's limit of three counts. Unlisted keeps it bookable by direct link while hiding it from your public booking page.
Confirmation page → Redirect after booking sends invitees to your own URL after they book, optionally with the booking details appended as query parameters.
Policies — whether invitees may cancel or reschedule themselves, how much notice they need, and a cap on reschedules per booking. Covered in Managing bookings.
Payments — set a Price and attendees pay during booking. Note that paid event types cannot also be recurring.

One-off links

Under One-Off Scheduling Links you can generate a booking link that stops working after it is used. Give it an optional label, a maximum number of uses (1 to 100) and an expiry (never, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days), then click Create Link. Each link shows whether it is active, used or expired, and its usage as a count against the maximum you set.

The checklist on your dashboard

A new workspace shows a five-item checklist above the dashboard. It tracks the setup that changes what a booker sees, in the order most hosts need it:

Confirm your hours — the seeded Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm week is a starting point, not an answer. This item stays open until you save your own.
Set up payments — connect Stripe or Square from Dashboard → Payments so you can take deposits and charge for bookings. Money goes to your own Stripe or Square account. This sits above creating an event type on purpose: for most hosts getting paid is the reason the booking page exists, and a price is set on the event type you are about to create.
Create an event type — the form described above.
Share your booking link — the item is marked done once you copy the link.
Connect your calendar — labelled optional, and last. It blocks out time you are already busy; a host who keeps no connected calendar can skip it and still take bookings. See Connecting calendars.

The checklist disappears once every item is done, and it can be dismissed at any point from the × in its corner.

Next steps

Set the hours you are bookable.
Connect a calendar so busy time blocks itself out.
Set up reminders so fewer people forget.

Last checked 2026-09-11.