When compared to the Appointment Schedule, the corporate product Appointment Slots appear to be outdated. It’s also less customizable—you can’t create new question sections, for example, and you can’t add a video call automatically.

So, to summarize:

Google users as individuals

Anyone who has a @gmail.com email address can upgrade to Google Workspace Individual for a fee. This contains the Appointment Schedule tool, which is comparable to Calendly in terms of functionality.

Business Users of Google Workspace (essentially, everyone whose employer pays for Google Workspace) have access to Appointment slots, which look outdated and are significantly less customizable.

I’m not going to pretend to know why this is, but I’m guessing Google intends to make the improved version available to its business customers at some point. For the time being, though, things are as they are—individual consumers have access to a superior system if they are prepared to pay for it.

Please don’t close your Calendly account just yet.

If Google’s new feature was free, Calendly would be in severe difficulty. Calendly’s free service is already far more powerful than the service Google charges for.

This isn’t to argue that Google Workspace Individual isn’t worth the $10 per month investment. There’s a case to be made for keeping everything in one location. Longer Google Meet conversations and email marketing features are also appealing.

Calendly’s free version, on the other hand, will function better for appointment scheduling than Google’s expensive service. It has similar or better features, and you can get even more by upgrading to a cheaper plan. Google may try to kill Calendly in the future, but this offering will prevent that.

Adding these functionalities to Google Workspace for business, on the other hand? This conversation would be a lot more fascinating if we did that.