Cal.com v4.9

Hi, Happy New Year! 🎊 We're starting 2025 with exciting updates to make scheduling easier, faster, and more tailored to you. In this newsletter, discover new payment options for paid bookings, enhanced Routing updates, and tips to avoid unwanted meetings. Enjoy!

We now support Apple and Google Pay

We’re excited to announce that we now support Apple Pay and Google Pay as payment methods for paid bookings!

If you’re using our stripe app to accept payments, you can now provide your customers with even more convenience and flexibility by offering these popular payment options.

How to enable Apple Pay and Google Pay

1. Connect the Stripe App to your Event Type

2. Log in to your Stripe Dashboard, which is connected to your Cal.com setup.

3. Navigate to your Stripe settings, and go to Payments under Product Settings. Switch to the Payment methods tab. Look for Cal.com configuration and click on it.

4. On this screen enable Apple Pay and Google Pay (or any other method you like). Make sure you follow specific instructions for each method.

Once enabled in Stripe, Apple Pay and Google Pay will automatically sync with your Cal.com setup.

Smarter and more insightful Routing Forms

Routing forms are essential for scheduling, especially in services and sales, as they ensure the right person is matched with the right client at the right time. We’ve been working hard to make them even better. Recent advancements include attribute-based weighting for host routing, allowing precise matching by prioritizing attribute weights over event type weights. You can now also analyze routing form inputs in the Insights tab and customize your preferred view. And stay tuned—there’s even more exciting functionality on the way!

Tip: How to avoid unwanted meetings

We’d like to remind you of our two powerful features that can help you to avoid unwanted bookings:

1. Requires Confirmation: Approve appointments before they’re added to your calendar, ensuring control over your schedule.

2. Requires Booker Email Verification: Verify the email of anyone booking with you to prevent spam and ensure authentic appointments.

Enable these features in your event’s advanced settings to focus on genuine bookings and protect your schedule from unnecessary disruptions.

New features

• We’ve removed custom workflow templates from our individual plan, read more here.

• We’re now using Plain for customer support to deliver faster responses and improve operations. #18130

• We’ve upgraded our /help section to a new system, offering a more user-friendly and intuitive experience. #18301

• We’ve added endpoints for organization admins to manage the ooo entries of their team members. #18499

• Now, you can filter your past bookings by the appointment date. #18303

• We’ve improved the calendar service by enhancing caching and availability fetching. #18224

• We continue enhancing our Salesforce integration. Now, if an attendee’s email is a free domain, we skip the account ownership check. #17916

• We’ve added out-of-office calibration to Round Robin logic. #17864

• You can also find your router position in the Insights section (Round Robin). #18260

• We’ve improved the Platform product with a new "Managed users" tab, added search functionality for easier user access, and added pagination for better navigation through large datasets. #18523

• We’ve also added MS Teams conferencing atom (Platform). #18067

• We’ve also introduced a new controller to manage team event types outside organizations (Platform). #18085

• We’ve implemented a solution that allows users to assign a specific calendar to an event type (before only available on the account level). #18052

• Chatbase app (a chatbot creator) is now available in our app store. #18302

• We’ve added a warning about lost information when switching Routing Forms tabs without saving. #18386

• We’ve added return policies for payment apps so you can manage them directly on our platform. #18428

• We now shorten sms links thanks to dub.co. #17925

• You can now add cancellation and reschedule reason variables to your workflows. #18305

Improvements & fixes

• We no longer send a reassignment email to an attendee for past events. #18173

• We’ve added a fix, where we decrease the product usage if a booking gets cancelled (Platform). #18241

• We’ve shortened the notification time for cases where a form is submitted but no meeting is booked. #18176

• We’ve adjusted the order of booking questions in the confirmation email to match the order in the questionnaire. #18192

• We’ve fixed an error with changing meeting location to Cal Video. #18401

• We’ve fixed an error with our private teams feature. #18166

• We’ve fixed an issue where form owner was not getting the submission email, if changes were made to the email-sending component after creating a form. #18222

• We’ve fixed an error with seats for the booker atom (Platform). #18265

• We’ve fixed an issue with Availability tab in the event type atom that was loading infinitely. #18263

• We’ve improved our App Store filters and its user interface. #18455

• We now show managed event bookings in the bookings list for team admins. #18434

• We’ve improved performance by using a subquery to reference booking records directly, resolving issues with the large Attendee table. #18557

• We’ve fixed an error with Zoho Calendar as it was allowing bookings during busy times. #18473

• We’ve addressed an issue with workflows being sent even after event cancellation. #17871

• We’ve enhanced filtering through your bookings by adding event type and email search. #18581

• We’ve fixed an email embed related issue (timezone selection being disabled). #15537

• If you’re curious about all the releases from the past month, you can view them here.

These updates are just the beginning of what’s to come in 2025! We’re always working to make Cal.com better for you.

Here’s to a productive year ahead,
Ewa from Cal.com