Meeting Poll
A scheduling method that proposes multiple candidate time slots to participants and collects votes to identify the most widely available time.
A meeting poll presents a set of proposed meeting times to a group of participants who each indicate their availability for each option. The organizer selects the final time based on the responses, typically choosing the time with the most participants available. Meeting polls are useful for organizing group meetings where no single organizer has visibility into all participants' calendars, and where a collective decision about meeting time is appropriate.
Meeting Polls vs. Self-Scheduling: Choosing the Right Tool
Meeting polls and self-scheduling solve related but fundamentally different problems. Self-scheduling puts the service provider in the role of the availability source: the client sees the provider's available times and picks one. This is appropriate for all service-provider-to-client scheduling. Meeting polls put all participants on equal footing, proposing time options for collective vote. This is appropriate for peer meetings, team coordination, and cross-organizational scheduling without a clear host.
Why Self-Scheduling Outperforms Polls for Client Booking
For client-facing scheduling, self-scheduling consistently outperforms meeting polls in conversion rates. Meeting polls ask the client to complete an additional step -- submitting their availability -- before a time is confirmed. Self-scheduling allows the client to confirm a meeting in a single interaction. The additional friction of the poll step results in fewer conversions from interested prospect to confirmed appointment.
How Schedly implements meeting poll
Schedly builds meeting poll directly into the scheduling flow — you configure it once in your dashboard and it runs automatically for every booking. There's no code, no integrations to wire up, and no manual steps. It's one of the core reasons service businesses choose Schedly over simpler booking tools that lack this capability.
How Schedly handles meeting poll
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Configure in your dashboard
This concept maps directly to a setting in your Schedly account — no technical background required.
Automates instantly
Once configured, Schedly handles the logic automatically — set it once and it runs for every booking.
Tracked in real-time
Your Schedly analytics dashboard shows the impact at a glance — bookings, no-shows, and revenue.
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