Create and share meetings links

Once you have connected your calendar and customized your meetings tool preferences, you can create meetings links to share with your contacts so they can easily book time with you. Booked meetings will sync with your connected Office 365 calendar so your appointments will always be up-to-date.

Create meetings links

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Sales > Meetings.
• To create a meeting link, in the upper right, click Create meeting link, then select Personal.
• Continue setting up your meeting link following the steps below.

Customize your meetings link details

• On the Details page, edit the meetings link's basic information.

  1. Meeting photo: this photo will display at the top of your meetings link page. Hover over the photo and click Change photo to edit it.
  2. Meeting headline: this headline will display next to the meeting photo at the top of your meetings link page.
  3. Meeting name: the internal name that appears in your meetings dashboard and when you insert the meetings link into an email.
  4. Meeting link: the link that prospects use to book this meeting. This value is not editable after creation. In order to have a link at a new URL, you will need to create a new link.
  5. Meeting type: choose a meeting type from the dropdown menu.
  6. Duration: the length of time visitors can book you for when clicking this meetings link. Click + Add duration to add more options. When you're done editing your meeting details, click Next.

Customize your meeting configuration

• Add a meeting location and customize the invitation that will be sent to attendees.

  1. Location: include information about how you will connect with your meeting attendee. This can be a call-in link, a physical location, etc. This location will appear in the contact's calendar invite, and the event created on your default personal calendar.
  2. Add videoconference link: if you have a specific account like Zoom, you can add it here.
  3. Invite subject: the calendar invite name, and the name of the event created on your default personal calendar after the meeting is booked (e.g., Product Demo with Lauren). You can insert personalization tokens in the subject by clicking Contact token or Company token.
  4. Invite description: a description of the meeting that displays when a meeting is booked. This description will appear in the calendar invite your contact receives and the event created on your default personal calendar.
  5. Language: select a language for your meetings link.
  6. Date and number format: select a country for your meetings link's date and number styling.
  7. Email notifications: determine when confirmation emails will be sent to visitors who booked a meeting with you. 
     • By default, a confirmation email will be sent when someone books a meeting through this meetings link. To disable the confirmation email, click to toggle the Send confirmation emails to prospects and customers immediately after they book meetings through this link switch off.
     • To send reminder emails before a meeting, click to toggle the Send pre-meeting reminder emails to prospects and customers who book meetings through this link switch on.
       
       • To select how many weeks, days, hours, or minutes before the meeting that an email should be sent out, enter a number in the text field, then click the Scheduled reminder email dropdown menu and select a time measure.
       • You can add up to three reminder emails. To add additional reminder emails, click Add another reminder. To delete a reminder, click the delete trash can icon.
       • To include the invite description in the reminder email, select the Include the Invite Description in reminder checkbox.
       • To preview the email your contacts will receive, click Preview reminder email. The language of the email will match the language selected in the Language dropdown menu. 
       • When you're done customizing your meeting's configuration, click Next.

Set your availability

Set the days and times that you will accept bookings for this meetings link.

1. Time zone: click the Time zone dropdown menu and select a time zone.
2. Available times: use the dropdown menus to set the days of the week and duration of your available time slots. Click + Add hours to add additional time slots.
3. When a meeting can be scheduled: enter the number of weeks from now that people can book time on your calendar. If you are creating a meetings link for an event or conference, you can specify a custom date range for booking. Select the Over a period of rolling weeks or Custom date range radio button, then select the number of weeks or use the date picker fields to set your time range. A custom date range cannot be longer than 10 weeks.
4. Minimum notice time: click the dropdown menu to select the minimum amount of time before a meeting that someone can book time with you.
5. Buffer time: click the dropdown menu to select the amount of buffer time between each of your meetings. The buffer time prevents meetings from being booked too closely together. For example, if you have a meeting from 1:00 - 1:30pm and have a buffer time of 30 minutes, the next available meeting time would be 2:00pm.
6. Start time increment: set the frequency of your meeting start times. For example, if you are available between 10:00am and 12:00pm for a 60 minute meeting and your start time increment is 15 minutes, a prospect can book 60 minutes with you at 10:00am, 10:15am, 10:30am, and so on. When you're done setting your availability, click Next.

Customize your form questions

By default, First Name, Last Name, and Email are required when someone books a meeting with you. You can also add any contact property as a field or add a custom question.

• Click + Contact property or + Custom question.
• Use the dropdown menu to select a property or enter a question in the field, then click Save.
• To make the field optional, clear the Required checkbox to the right of the field.
• You can redirect contacts to a specific website page, landing page, or external page after they book a meeting by selecting the Redirect to another page radio button. If you’ve installed ad network pixels, this redirect supports tracking meeting bookings with external networks like Google and Facebook.
  • To select a HubSpot page, click the dropdown menu and select a page.

• • To redirect to an external page, click Add external link. In the dialog box, enter the URL, then click Add.
• If you do not want meetings form fields to pre-populate with known information when a contact returns to your site, click to toggle the Pre-populate fields with known values switch off. Disabling this setting will automatically disable the Auto-submit form when all fields are pre-populated setting.
• To automatically submit the form when the form fields pre-populate with known data, click to toggle the Auto-submit form when all fields are pre-populated switch on.
• Click Save changes

• You can capture a contact's consent to communicate to a specific subscription type, or capture legitimate interest on your meetings link. In the Customize marketing consent panel, select Consent or Legitimate interest from the dropdown menu.
  • Consent: edit the communication consent text, then add additional subscription types/checkboxes to allow visitors to consent to communication from multiple subscription types on a single meetings link. Click + Add another checkbox, then select a consent type and edit the text that will appear next to the checkbox.
  • Legitimate interest: select a lawful basis from the dropdown menu. To add more subscription types so you can capture multiple subscription types implicitly, click + Add another subscription, then click the Subscription type dropdown menu and select a subscription type. The default subscription that you select in meetings is "one-on-one" communication. It's an internal subscription type in your HubSpot account.
• Edit the link's privacy and consent text. Any changes made to an individual link's Privacy & Consent options will override the default text set in your account settings. 
• To see how your consent options will render, click the Preview tab.
• When you're done editing your form questions and Privacy & Consent options, click Save changes.

Share meeting links

Once you've created a meetings link, you can share it with your contacts or embed it on your website.

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Sales > Meetings.
• Hover over the meetings link and click Copy link.

Share the link with your contacts by adding it as a hyperlink in the body of your email or email signature. When a contact books a meeting using a meeting link with tracking parameters, the parameter values will populate the contact's Campaign of last booking in meetings tool, Source of last booking in meetings tool, and Medium of last booking in meetings tool properties.

Receive Bookings

When a visitor clicks your meetings link, they can select a date, time, and length of time if you've set multiple duration options. They'll then be asked to enter their contact information and answer any custom questions you've added to the meetings link.

Depending on your meeting link settings, the following may occur when a contact books a meeting:

• If a contact has booked a meeting in the past and the Pre-populate fields with known values setting is enabled for the meetings link, HubSpot will recognize the cookie in their browser and pre-populate the form with information from their contact record. The form will also be pre-populated if a known contact uses a meetings link hosted on a custom domain or embedded on your website and the contact previously submitted a marketing form on that same domain.
• If the Auto-submit form when all fields are pre-populated setting is enabled, the form will automatically be submitted with the contact's pre-populated information, unless your meetings link includes custom form questions. Custom form questions will not pre-populate because these responses are not saved to a property.

When a meeting is booked, you'll get an email alert with the booking time and the contact's name. You can click to view the contact in the CRM or view the calendar event in your integrated default personal calendar. The prospect will also receive a calendar invitation with all of the meeting details.