> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.pipelime.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The free meeting scheduler (no account)

> Create a booking link from the marketing site with no sign-up, and manage it from the token link we email you.

export const Screenshot = ({id, alt, caption, frame = 'browser', url, marks = [], lang = 'en', workspace = 'northwind-outbound'}) => {
  const src = `/images/screenshots/${lang}/${id}.png`;
  const chrome = url ? `app.pipelime.ai/${workspace}${url}` : 'app.pipelime.ai';
  return <figure className={`pl-shot pl-shot--${frame} not-prose`}>
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        {frame !== 'bare' && <div className="pl-shot__bar">
            <span className="pl-shot__dots">
              <span className="pl-shot__dot" />
              <span className="pl-shot__dot" />
              <span className="pl-shot__dot" />
            </span>
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};

By the end you'll have a live booking page anyone can use, and your own private manage page, reached through the link PipeLime emails you, where you rename it, set your hours and connect Google Calendar.

<div className="pl-availability">
  <div className="pl-availability__row">
    <div className="pl-availability__label">Where</div>
    <div className="pl-availability__value"><span className="pl-path">pipelime.ai<span className="pl-path__sep">→</span>Free Tools<span className="pl-path__sep">→</span>Meeting Scheduler</span></div>
  </div>

  <div className="pl-availability__row">
    <div className="pl-availability__label">Who can use it</div>
    <div className="pl-availability__value">Anyone with the link. No PipeLime account needed.</div>
  </div>

  <div className="pl-availability__note">A booking link anyone can create without an account, managed by a token link.</div>
</div>

## Before you begin

* Your company's website, on a domain that resolves publicly. The tool checks it before it sends you to Google, and bounces you back to the tool with an error if it cannot reach it.
* A Google account for the address you want booking notifications to go to. Signing in with it is how the tool checks that you actually own that inbox, and it is the only Google account that can later connect a calendar to this link.

## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Enter your website and continue with Google">
    The tool asks for one field, **Company website**, then a single **Continue with Google** button. There's no
    password and no plan to pick: signing in with Google is what proves the inbox is yours, and granting calendar
    access on Google's own consent screen is a separate, optional step, not a requirement to get a link at all.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Your link goes live immediately">
    You land straight on your new manage page with a starter link already working: a name, a duration and
    Monday-to-Friday hours are filled in for you, so it's never a blank form. Those hours are already in force,
    not merely typed into the form: a link nobody has saved yet offers invitees exactly those days. Your company
    name starts as the first part of the domain you typed, and a background scrape of that website replaces it
    and adds your logo when it finishes.

    <Screenshot id="meetings/free-meeting-scheduler--create" frame="bare" alt="The manage page header right after sign-up: a green 'Your booking link is live!' banner with a Copy your link button, above the link name, duration chip and the shareable booking URL field" caption="A representative example: a manage page exists only once a real Google sign-in has created one, so this screen is simulated. The email that confirms the link carries both the booking URL and this page, so keep it." />
  </Step>

  <Step title="Rename it and set the basics">
    Everything editable lives in the **Booking settings** panel, on the left and always open. **Meeting name** and
    **Duration (minutes)** are both required. Duration is a number of minutes, and the form rejects anything below
    its minimum or above its maximum, telling you what that limit is. Renaming the meeting never changes your
    booking URL, so a link you have already shared keeps working. **Company name** is shown on your booking page
    next to your logo, and arrives holding the name the scrape found: type over it to replace that name, or clear
    the field to leave the current one alone. **Save changes** applies all of it at once.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set your weekly hours">
    Below the basics, **Availability timezone** is the zone your own hours are read in, not the zone an invitee
    sees: their booking page opens in their own timezone and converts your slots into it. **Weekly hours**
    is where you turn days on or off and adjust the windows on each one; **Date overrides** blocks or opens single
    dates that don't follow your usual week. At least one weekly day or one override needs an open hour, or saving
    is rejected.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Connect your calendar and see the full picture">
    The **Google Calendar** card sits beside your settings. Once connected it checks your real calendar for busy
    times and adds a Google Meet link to every invite automatically; **Connect Google Calendar** starts that
    connection, and it only accepts the Google account you signed up with. Below it, the **Bookings** section is
    where every booking made through your link shows up, split into **Upcoming** and **Past**, and an upcoming
    one can be canceled from its own row.

    <Screenshot id="meetings/free-meeting-scheduler--manage-page" frame="bare" alt="The manage page's ongoing view: Booking settings on the left with name, duration, company name, timezone, weekly hours and date overrides; a connected Google Calendar card on the right, and an empty Bookings section below" caption="A representative example, simulated for the same reason. Nothing on it is a draft: the link in the header is taking bookings while you edit." />
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What happens next

<Check>
  Your booking page works from the moment it's created: share it anywhere, and anyone can book an open slot inside
  your hours whether or not you've touched anything on this page yet.
</Check>

Every new booking is emailed to you and appears in the **Bookings** section here; with Google Calendar connected,
it also lands on your calendar with a Google Meet link attached. The page keeps a running list of what a free link
can't do, under **Locked features**: **Email reminders**, **Custom questions**, **Round-robin & team scheduling**,
**CRM & automations** and **Custom branding** are each named, not hidden, with a **Create your free account**
button below them that opens sign-up in a new tab, leaving your manage page where it is.

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Booking link not found">
    This is what opening a broken or mistyped manage link shows. The email PipeLime sent when your link was
    created has the working one; if you can't find it, go back to the free tool and continue with the same Google
    account. You still have to enter a website the tool can reach, but what you type is ignored the second time:
    because you already have a link, you're sent straight back to it instead of a new one being created.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Your company name or logo hasn't shown up">
    Your logo and your real company name come from a background scrape of the website you entered, which only
    starts once your link is already live, so seeing the page say it's still fetching your logo and company
    details for a moment is normal. Until it lands you get a name taken from your domain instead. If that name
    is still there after a while, the scrape did not come back with a better one: type the one you want into
    **Company name**, which the scrape never overwrites once you have set it, and click the logo tile at the top
    of the page to upload your own image.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="You skipped Google Calendar and want it now">
    Declining calendar access on Google's consent screen during sign-up doesn't lose you anything permanently:
    your link works exactly the same without it, you just don't get busy-time blocking or a Google Meet link on
    each invite yet. **Connect Google Calendar** on this page starts that connection whenever you're ready. Sign
    in there with the Google address you signed up with: any other one is sent back to this page as a failed
    connect, and nothing is saved.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Related

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Meetings overview" icon="compass" href="/en/meetings/overview">
    How Meeting Links, Bookings and calendar connections fit together for a full PipeLime workspace.
  </Card>

  <Card title="What invitees see" icon="calendar-days" href="/en/meetings/what-invitees-see">
    The booking page and self-service screens your invitees use, whichever kind of link sent them there.
  </Card>

  <Card title="What is PipeLime?" icon="layout-dashboard" href="/en/getting-started/what-is-pipelime">
    What a full workspace adds once you're ready to create your free account.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>