Enlarge / The new “booking page” UI. This is a URL you can create and send to anyone. (credit: Google)
Google Calendar’s latest update promises to take a lot of the back-and-forth out of booking appointments. Google announced Friday that users will soon be able to create a “booking page” UI they can send to anyone they want. You present the particular periods you’re willing to have the meeting, and the other user will be able to pick a time.
Workspace users will soon be able to pick the “Appointment Schedule” from the “create” appointment button. This will fire up a UI that can be used to create an appointment webpage. Work area users highlight the times they would be willing to have a meeting, then enter the appointment duration and location (or a new Google Meet room) and add a title and description.
Once everything is filled out, Calendar will generate some sort of Google-hosted “booking page” website, and the creator can send typically the URL to someone else. The other person can then easily choose a time and add the meeting to a calendar. A similar time slot feature was previously available if both users were inside this same Workspace organization, but you can now show this time-slot UI in order to anyone you want, even users without a Google account.
