Meeting polls that book themselves
Propose time slots from your live calendar. Collect votes from anyone — no login needed. Schedly auto-books the winner and sends calendar invites to every attendee.
AI ranks the best slot before you even decide. No back-and-forth. No manual booking step.
Four steps. Zero back-and-forth.
The whole loop — from "let's find a time" to confirmed calendar invite — in minutes.
Pick slots from your live calendar
Open Meeting Polls and your calendar loads automatically. Click the times you want to offer — only genuinely free slots are shown. Add team members as required co-hosts if needed.
Share one link — no login for voters
Copy the poll link and send it anywhere — email, Slack, WhatsApp, calendar invite. Invitees open it in their browser, see times in their own timezone, and vote in under 30 seconds. No Schedly account needed.
AI ranks the best slot as votes arrive
Your poll dashboard updates in real time. Schedly's AI ranks all slots by timezone spread (minimising unsociable hours across participants), response rate, and your own energy patterns from past bookings. You get a recommendation, not just a count.
Winning slot books itself
When a slot wins — at your deadline, at majority vote, or with one click — Schedly books it automatically. Calendar invites go to every attendee. Reminders fire on schedule. The poll closes. You're done.
Not just a vote counter.
A scheduling advisor.
A slot with 8 votes from people across London, New York, and Singapore is not the same as 8 votes from people in the same city. Schedly's AI knows the difference.
Timezone spread
Calculates total unsociable-hour burden across all participants' timezones. Favours times that are reasonable for everyone, not just the majority.
Response rate signal
Slots with more responses carry stronger signal. A slot with 10/10 responses is ranked higher than one with 6/10 — even if vote counts are equal.
Host energy patterns
Schedly learns when your meetings historically go best — based on past booking data, completion rates, and rescheduling patterns — and uses it as a tiebreaker.
AI Slot Recommendation
Based on 8 responses · 4 timezones
Tue Jun 10 · 10:00 AM GMT
AI score: 94/100
Wed Jun 11 · 3:00 PM GMT
AI score: 81/100
Thu Jun 12 · 9:00 AM GMT
AI score: 67/100
Fri Jun 13 · 4:00 PM GMT
AI score: 42/100
Schedly vs. Doodle, Calendly & Rally
Every other poll tool stops at the vote count. Schedly closes the loop.
| Feature | Schedly | Doodle | Calendly | Rally |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reads live calendar availability | ||||
| Auto-books the winning slot | ||||
| AI slot ranking & recommendation | ||||
| Multi-host team availability | ||||
| No login required for voters | ||||
| Timezone auto-detection | ||||
| Linked to booking event type | ||||
| Reminders & follow-up on winner | ||||
| Intake form on confirmed booking | ||||
| Payment on confirmed booking |
Based on publicly available feature documentation as of June 2026.
Who uses Meeting Polls
From 2-person calls to 50-person company events.
Client kick-off calls
Send one poll link to your client team — no chasing individuals for availability. The winning slot books and adds everyone to the calendar automatically.
Interviews & panels
Add all interviewers as required hosts. The poll only shows times everyone is free. No more Slack threads asking 'who's available Thursday?'
Cross-timezone teams
AI timezone spread analysis finds the slot with the lowest total unsociable-hour burden across all participants — not just the one with the most votes.
Board & exec meetings
High-stakes meetings where every attendee matters. Multi-host availability ensures the CEO and CFO are both free before a slot is ever offered.
Weekly recurring sync
Run a poll once to find the best recurring time for your team. Auto-book the winner as a recurring event with Schedly's repeat booking feature.
Company-wide events
Training sessions, all-hands, workshops. Poll the whole team, let AI find the slot with the best attendance potential, auto-book the space.
Why every other poll tool stops too early — and what Schedly does differently
The scheduling back-and-forth is one of the most universally despised rituals in professional life. "Does Tuesday at 2 work?" "No, how about Wednesday?" "I'm in meetings all Wednesday." "Thursday morning?" This exchange — multiplied across teams, clients, and time zones — consumes an estimated 4.8 hours per person per week. Meeting polls were invented to solve this: propose times, people vote, the majority wins. But the original tools all share the same critical flaw: they stop at the vote count.
Doodle, When2meet, and Rally show you results. They do not act on them. You still have to read the tally, pick the winner, open your calendar, create the event, add attendees, generate the video link, and send confirmations. The automation that should have been there from the beginning was never built. The back-and-forth ended — but the manual work didn't.
"Schedly Meeting Polls don't just count votes. They close the loop — from proposal to confirmed calendar invite, without a single manual step."
The live calendar advantage
Every manual poll tool has a fundamental reliability problem: the slots you propose might not actually be free by the time votes come in. Schedly reads your live calendar when you build the poll — and checks again when the winner is auto-booked. You can only propose times you're genuinely available. The winning slot can only book if it's still open. This sounds obvious. No other poll tool does it.
Multi-host scheduling: the panel problem
Scheduling a meeting that requires two or more hosts — an interview panel, a client call with your lead and account manager, a board meeting — is where manual coordination completely breaks down. You need a slot where Person A, Person B, and Person C are all free. Without live calendar integration, you're asking each person to manually check their own calendar and report back, then cross-referencing manually. Schedly's multi-host polling reads all required hosts' live calendars simultaneously and only surfaces slots where everyone is free. The problem is solved before the poll is even shared.
Frequently asked questions
Stop the back-and-forth.
Let the poll book itself.
Live calendar availability. Votes from anyone — no login. AI slot ranking. Auto-book on winner. Free on all Schedly plans.