Calendly is a booking page that shows the times you are free and lets people take one. On a Bernard site it can sit inside any page, so a visitor books without leaving you, and after they book it can send them on to a page of your own: a thank-you page, an application form or a payment. You ask for it in plain words with your Calendly link, and it lands on a draft for you to check and publish.
This page explains the parts of Calendly that matter on a website, how each one works on a Bernard site, and which Calendly plan each part needs. The Calendly details are from Calendly’s own help pages and pricing page, read on 26 October 2026.
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Two ways to put Calendly on a page
The calendar inside the page. Your Calendly booking page shows inside one of your pages, at the size of the space it sits in. The visitor picks a day and a time and books, and never leaves your site. This is what most people mean by “adding Calendly”, and it is what Bernard does when you ask for your calendar on a page.
A “Book a call” button. A button or a link that opens your Calendly page. It is the quickest thing to add and it works everywhere. The visitor leaves your site to book.
Calendly also offers a floating button that opens the calendar over the page, and a link that does the same. Its help page lists all three for every plan, the free one included.
On a Bernard site, ask in one sentence: “Put my Calendly 30 minute call on the Book a call page, under the intro paragraph.” Give him the link to the event, the one that starts https://calendly.com/. The calendar appears on a draft. Check it on a phone and on a computer, then publish.
After the booking: sending people on
By default, Calendly ends with its own “confirmed” screen. You can change that so it sends the visitor to a page of yours instead. In Calendly, open the event, then Confirmation page, and choose Redirect to an external site. Put in the address of the page you want.
Good places to send people:
- A thank-you page that says what happens next, with your face, your voice and what to prepare.
- An application or details form, if you want answers before the call.
- A payment page, if the call is paid and you take the money elsewhere.
On a Bernard site, the calendar takes the whole page on to that address, so the visitor lands on your page in the normal way. Calendly can also add the booking details to the address it sends them to: the event name and time, the person’s name and email, and their answers to your questions. Calendly lists the redirect on its Standard plan and above.
If your calendar stops on “Redirecting”. A calendar added to a Bernard site before late October 2026 can keep an older setting that holds it inside its box, so the visitor sees “Redirecting” and nothing happens. Ask Bernard: “Refresh the Calendly calendar on the Apply page so it can send people to my thank-you page,” then publish.
Taking details before the call
There are two ways to learn about someone before you speak to them.
Calendly’s own questions. Each kind of appointment can ask up to 10 questions when someone books: a line of text, a paragraph, a choice, tick boxes, a drop-down or a phone number. Calendly lists this on every plan. The answers live in Calendly, with the booking.
A form on your own site. Send people after booking to a page with a Bernard form. Their answers land in your contacts in Bernard, next to everyone else who has filled in a form on your site, and you are told each time one arrives. How your website’s contact book works covers forms and contacts in full.
Most people use Calendly’s questions for the two or three things they must know, and a form for the rest.
Getting bookings into your contacts
Bernard does not connect to Calendly directly. Instead your site has one address that other tools can send news to, and Zapier or Make carries a new booking to it. A booking can add the person to your contacts with a tag, start one of your automatic emails, or both, and a cancelled booking can add a different tag. Getting Calendly bookings into Bernard shows what to set up. Calendly’s help says its Zapier connection needs the Standard plan or higher.
Tracking where bookings came from
Calendly stores tracking tags (the utm_source and utm_campaign part of a link, which says which ad or email someone came from) with each booking. An embedded calendar does not read them from the page it sits on by itself. The plain way is to put the tags on the calendar’s own link: a calendar on the page your ads go to can carry ?utm_source=facebook, and every booking from that page is marked. Ask Bernard to add the tags to the calendar on that page.
Cookies and your cookie notice
Calendly sets cookies inside the calendar. It shows its own small cookie banner in the calendar by default, and its help page is plain that it “uses cookies even if the banner is hidden”. If the banner is hidden, Calendly says your site must handle the visitor’s choice instead. The simple rule: leave Calendly’s banner switched on.
Bernard can also place Calendly’s own embed code instead of the calendar box. That version waits on your live site until a visitor presses Show Calendly booking, with a line under the button saying it lets Calendly use cookies. Use it if you would rather nothing from Calendly loaded until a visitor asks.
What each Calendly plan allows
From Calendly’s pricing page and help pages, read on 26 October 2026. Prices are in US dollars, per seat (each person who takes bookings), per month.
| What you want | Free | Standard, from $10 | Teams, from $16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The calendar inside your page | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kinds of appointment | One | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Connected calendars | One | Up to six | Up to six |
| Your own questions when someone books | Up to 10 | Up to 10 | Up to 10 |
| Send people to your page after booking | No | Yes | Yes |
| Take payment at booking (Stripe or PayPal) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Reminders and follow-up emails | No | Yes | Yes |
| Zapier, to send bookings on | No | Yes | Yes |
| Routing forms (send people to the right person by their answers) | No | No | Yes |
Calendly connects to Google Calendar, Outlook and Office 365, and Exchange. A card fee for taking payment is charged by Stripe or PayPal, on top. What those fees come to is in How to take card payments online in 2026, and what it really costs, and how Calendly compares with five other booking systems is in Online booking systems for a small business - what they cost, and how to put one on your website.
Phone and desktop
A moved site sometimes has a separate phone layout and computer layout of the same page. The calendar box works in both, so Bernard puts it in both. Calendly’s own embed code with the Show button can sit in only one of them, so on a page like that Bernard uses the calendar box, or puts the booking on a page of its own.
When the calendar is a blank gap
If a page moved from your old site shows a tall empty space where the calendar was, the calendar is not lost. Ask Bernard to check every page with a booking calendar and put back the ones that are not showing. My booking calendar is a blank space explains why it happens.
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Questions people ask
- How do I add Calendly to my website?
- On a Bernard site, ask for it in plain words with your Calendly link, for example: “Put my Calendly 30 minute call on the Book a call page, under the intro.” The calendar appears inside the page on a draft. You check it on a phone and a computer, then publish. You can also use a plain “Book a call” button that opens your Calendly page.
- Can Calendly send people to my own thank-you page after they book?
- Yes. In Calendly, open the event, then Confirmation page, and choose to redirect to an external site. Put in the address of your thank-you page. On a Bernard site the calendar then takes the whole page on, so the visitor lands on your page. Calendly lists this on its Standard plan and above.
- My calendar says “Redirecting” after a booking and never moves. What do I do?
- Ask Bernard to refresh the Calendly calendar on that page, then publish. A calendar added to a Bernard site before late October 2026 can hold on to an older setting that stops the redirect. A refresh replaces it.
- How do I collect details before the call?
- Two ways. Calendly can ask up to 10 questions of its own when someone books, on every plan. Or send people after booking to a page on your site with a Bernard form, so their answers land in your contacts.
- Is Calendly free?
- There is a free plan with one kind of appointment and one connected calendar. The redirect, taking payment, reminders and Zapier need a paid plan. Calendly’s pricing page, read on 26 October 2026, shows Standard from $10 a seat a month and Teams from $16, in US dollars.
- Does Calendly set cookies on my website?
- Yes, inside the calendar. Calendly’s own help says it uses cookies even when its cookie banner is hidden. Leave Calendly’s banner switched on unless your own cookie notice already covers Calendly.