Appointment scheduler for shared calendar - choosing availability of only few people

[PS3]

Hello, our clients book meetings with us based on the availability in our shared calendar. So far, we have been using a regular Google shared calendar for this. We would like to implement an appointment scheduler.

What we haven't found there yet is a feature that allows a client to choose availability for only certain team members (not everyone together). Is this possible, or do we need to have separate appointment schedulers for all availability combinations of our members?

[icrew]

I'm not sure I totally understand the question, but there are two options built into Google Calendar in terms of schedule-able appointments:

• The older Appointment Slots feature, see https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/190998
• The newer Appointment Schedules feature, see https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/11608416

There are also lots of third-party tools, like Calendly, that offer even more features if those don't fit your needs.

Hope that helps at least a little,

Ian

[PS3]

Hi, thanks for your reply. I´ll try to describe it a little bit better.

The image below is a sample of our Google Calendar that we send to clients when we want them to find time to book an appointment with us.
The client knows exactly who he wants to schedule a meeting with (e.g. team members 1, 2 and 5) and ticks the calendars of the selected team members in the top right.
The only disadvantage of this calendar is that it is not possible to send invitations directly from it - for that reason we are trying the Appointment scheduler.

I hope it makes more sense.

[icrew · Accepted solution]

Got it. I'm pretty sure it's not possible to do what you want with Google's native tools, so a third-party option is probably your best bet. For example, looking at https://calendly.com/features/scheduling, their "team scheduling" feature might be a lot closer? (I don't have direct experience with that feature, though, just as a disclaimer...)

Hope that helps,

Ian