Abuse prevention

To protect your scheduling experience from abuse, spam, and unwanted bookings, Calendly has implemented strong security measures. Explore the following tips to avoid unwanted bookings and protect your calendar.

Tips to avoid unwanted bookings

To help protect your calendar, try these suggestions:

Review your scheduling setup

• Be careful with public sharing: If your scheduling link is in your email signature, consider removing it when emailing recipients who shouldn’t have access to book meetings.
• Set a limit for booking in advance: Control how far into the future invitees can schedule meetings by adjusting your availability date range.
• Change your event link: Update the URL of a specific event type to create a new, secure link.

Add booking controls

• Make events secret: Hide event types from your landing page. This way, only invitees with the direct event link can book with you.
• Share single-use links: Create single-use links to ensure invitees cannot reuse the link for additional bookings.
• Require email verification: Require invitees to verify their email before confirming their booking.
• Prevent bookings from unwanted email domains: Use Routing Forms to prevent invitees with certain email domains from reaching your scheduling page, such as Gmail or Yahoo. Available on select paid plans.

These options give you more control over your calendar and who can book with you.