How to Suggest Meeting Times from Boomerang for iOS

Suggest Times lets you easily schedule an ad-hoc meeting with anyone you're emailing. Use this lightweight approach to share a set of available times of your choice, and let your guest book with just a few clicks; no more back and forth! With Boomerang's double booking prevention, as your schedule fills up, your suggested times update automatically every time they open the email.

How to Suggest Meeting Times

Compose a message or reply to your recipient, then tap on the Calendar Icon in the bar at the bottom right of your compose window.

From the popup menu at the bottom, tap on Suggest Times.

If you've already included a subject line and recipient, you'll see that they've been auto-filled in the menu. (If not, just tap Add Guest to add the recipient, and input the meeting Title.) If needed, change the meeting Duration, what Calendar to add the event to, Location, and even Description. Once that's done, tap Select Times to start suggesting meeting times.

Here, you'll find a weekly calendar view, showing any events you may have scheduled already. Tap directly on the calendar grid to suggest meeting times. Once added, you can:

Remove a time by tapping on on the X in the top right corner.
Change the duration by tapping and dragging the bottom up or down.
Adjust the start time by long pressing and dragging the suggested time.

Tap Done when you're happy with the times you suggested.

Your suggested times will appear in a box with the date and start time. If needed, you may also customize the experience further by tapping Advanced Options at the bottom. These options include:

Include Magic Live Calendar - Our patented feature inserts a dynamic calendar with your latest, up-to-date availability for recipients to choose a time.

Include my Free/Busy Availability - If you choose to include a Magic Live Calendar, you can also show your free/busy availability while maintaining you privacy. We’ll show if you’re busy in case your guest wants to request a time off schedule, but the event details remain a secret.

Prevent Double Booking - We'll automatically removes slots that become unavailable, and adds them back if time frees up later.

Reserve these times on my calendar - We’ll add tentative events to your calendar to reserve these times until your guest chooses one so you remember to keep those times free for your guest.

When everything is to your liking, tap on Insert

A Magic Live Calendar will be embedded in your email draft, showing your recipient an always up-to-date view of times you can meet. Once you've sent the email, they can click directly on the image to confirm a time, and calendar invitations will be sent to both of you.