Hidden calendar blocks for meeting buffers
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Lauren Simmonett
When meeting buffers are enabled, Chili Piper creates calendar events to block the time, which means reps receive reminders for buffer blocks in addition to their actual meetings. Reps who review their calendar in the morning to prepare for calls are seeing buffer events alongside their real meetings, creating noise and confusion. Competing tools like HubSpot meeting links and Calendly enforce buffers without creating visible calendar events.
Chili Piper should support a buffer mode that enforces scheduling constraints without creating a calendar event, preventing back-to-back bookings while keeping the rep's calendar free of unnecessary buffer blocks and their associated reminders.
Buffer events that behave like real meetings add clutter to a rep's schedule and generate reminders for time blocks that don't require any preparation. For reps managing high call volumes, this is a meaningful distraction that degrades the utility of their calendar as a daily planning tool.
Taylor Jennings
Merged in a post:
Take away visual meeting buffers on Google Calendar
Carly Baker
The visual meeting buffers can only be hidden within the Chili Piper website. It severely clogs up my calendar with all of the meetings that pile up, and it looks very messy. Can you please create a view where you can hide the meeting buffers like you can on your website? We migrated from Calendly > Chili Piper and I love everything about it, but Calendly did not have visual meeting buffers.
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Kristin Fretz
This is very necessary and such a turn off for sellers if they are getting actual calendar invites on their calendar to represent the buffer. No practical sales rep needs that information on their already busy calendars.
We just need the meeting invites during scheduling to consider the meeting buffer numbers entered.
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Kristin Fretz
This is very necessary and such a turn off for sellers if they are getting actual calendar invites on their calendar to represent the buffer. No practical sales rep needs that information on their already busy calendars.
We just need the meeting invites during scheduling to consider the meeting buffer numbers entered.
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Alexander Von Stegmann
100% agree with Lauren & Caleb. This is standard with most other booking tools!
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Caleb Hoskins
As a stellar example, the Hubspot meetings tool can read a calendar integration with Google and employ meeting buffer settings without actually booking them. Please update Chili Piper to do the same so my Go To Market Team doesn't have these ugly meeting buffers on their calendar.