Appointment scheduling feature in Proton Calendar - Calendly like features are missing
In my opinion, this isn't a 100% replacement for the functionality offered by Calendly or TidyCal.
For the person making the booking, there's only a name and email address field. With Calendly and TidyCal, I have informative forms that my clients can fill out before booking. I'm missing address details (street, city, postal code, phone number) as well as a subject for the booking, ideally with a predefined selection that the client can choose and above all a text field.
Furthermore, my main Proton email address is displayed below the organizer in the booking field. Since I use my own domain address, which is associated with my practice, I should be able to choose what is displayed, as I don't want my private Proton address to appear there. Ideally, I would prefer that no email address be displayed at all.
Besides a link to the booking page, an embed code for websites would also be great.
It would be nice if these things could be improved.
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Franz
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I agree. The current name and email flow works well for simple scheduling, but it is difficult to replace established booking tools in a professional workflow without a configurable intake step.
For many business appointments, the organizer needs a small amount of context before the meeting, such as company, role, meeting topic, desired outcome and one or two qualification questions. These fields should ideally be configurable per booking page, required or optional, and stored together with the booking.
This also matters beyond meeting preparation. A booking is often the point where an anonymous website visitor becomes a known contact in a CRM. Structured booking data makes it possible to preserve source and context, prepare the conversation, create or enrich the contact and reliably manage follow up afterwards.
Integration options such as structured export, webhooks or an API would make this much more powerful for business users.
I would also support the other points mentioned here, especially control over which organizer email address is displayed and an embeddable booking page.