Calendly users can't schedule recurring appointments, forcing manual rebooking

I just started using calendly yesterday only to find there is no way to set recurring appointments. I assumed it would be a feature because all other scheduling systems ive used in the past 10 years had it. It blows my mind that this is not a basic feature. I will most likely be looking for something else because this doesn't solve the headache around scheduling for me or my clients....which is the purpose of calendly. It appears people have been asking for 2 years. Whats the holdup?

I need to create 17 appointments on Calendly and shudder to think I may have to put them each in one by one. Please tell me there's a way I can make 17 appointments for the next 17 saturdays for the same exact time all at once.

I am growing my coaching business and I really need to be able to book executive clients for a series 8 to 12 sessions upfront. Asking them to do this themselves is becoming too burdensome on my very busy leadership clients. I feel unprofessional trying to answer why the service I use for booking doesn’t allow this feature while others do. I see a post on running this through Zapier but, in addition to the cumbersome 20+ steps and testing laid out in that post, I would lose the benefits of reminder emails/texts to these busy clients.I am considering moving my scheduling to another platform before my business grows any larger. I’ve found posts 2+ years old from Calendly saying this is a known issue and they’re working on it, but there’s still no built-in solution. What exactly is the hold-up? What aspect of integrating a recurrence feature makes this so difficult to implement? As a former product manager, understanding this will allow me to be more understanding and patient with Calendly. I’ve been very happy with Calendly otherwise but this is a major gap.Thank you.

I have been asking Calendly to offer this feature for YEARS. It is so bonkers to me that this isn’t a thing yet. Every time I get an email with “what’s new” and this function isn’t part of it, a little part of me dies. I have several clients whom I see weekly and I have to hold a spot in my personal calendar on repeat (so nobody else books that spot) which I then delete every week so that I can then schedule them in the same spot each time. It’s madness! The workaround Calendly suggests does not offer clients a weekly email confirmation, etc. It’s so unprofessional. I just signed up for Acuity today and I’m in the (arduous) process of migrating my business over. It’s a shame because I really like almost everything else that Calendly offers. This, however, is a non-starter, and I feel like it has been falling on deaf ears.

I see others have previously inquired about this and I’d like to drive home the feedback and ask that it is pushed with priority to your dev teams/product teams.I have found Calendly to be nearly perfect in every respect save this one. All of my meetings are weekly, and each week I need to remember to go in and REBOOK all of them for the following week.Several user notes here:I want to be able to, from the booking screen where I type in the users name/email, set the meeting to Repeat → Weekly and set the date until which this weekly appt goes (with one of the options to be indefinitely). In the meantime while this feature is ironed out, I would appreciate the option to ONLY send the Reminder email 24-hours in advance - not a ‘confirmation of booking’ email. This way, my patients don’t know exactly when I rescheduled them in for the next week, only that we have a set weekly appointment that they will receive a reminder for every week at the same time. To be clear, I want the reminder email and the confirmation email to function as separate entities so that I can send ONLY reminder emails.Is there a timeline of release for the repeat-meeting feature? Thanks in advance for the information.